I need to check my work emails at home tonight and i have lost my bookmark to my works OWA.

I can log onto my works Router / Firewall using th IP address i have, but i cant remember how to get to the Outlook Web Access log on screen.

Can Anyone help.

OWA is usually there to provide external access, so you shouldn't need to get into your router for that. Usually it's a secure http connection e.g. https://webmail.company.com but the actual URL can vary.

Will anyone else be monitoring their email who might know? Send them an email from your private address, or call them.

OWA is usually there to provide external access, so you shouldn't need to get into your router for that. Usually it's a secure http connection e.g. https://webmail.company.com but the actual URL can vary.

Will anyone else be monitoring their email who might know? Send them an email from your private address, or call them.

No one is at work at the moment, ive tried what i think the domain is but to no luck.

is the internal ip address for the server different when accessing it from outside ?

can be..

I know that the internal interface to the server is through one network interface and into a subnet, and the external through a completely different interface and a public subnet.

cheers anyway, ill sort it tomorrow at work.

It's a bit late I know, but often it's http://IPADDRESS/exchange

It's a bit late I know, but often it's http://IPADDRESS/exchange

Cheers, tried that to no luck. I think somethings not setup correctly since our new server.

If its a small -medium sized organisation and you know the domain name, you will usually get the IP address and access to OWA like this...

Go to a command prompt (Start> Run> cmd) and then pinging the DNS entry for the mail server, usually this would be one of the following-

ping mail.domainname.co.uk

or

ping mailgate.domainname.co.uk

It probaby won't return any ping replies, but the IP address should be shown in brackets.

You would then note this down and go to a web browser and enter the following:

http:///exchange

or

https:///exchange

Hope this helps

I need to check my work emails at home tonight and i have lost my bookmark to my works OWA.

I can log onto my works Router / Firewall using th IP address i have, but i cant remember how to get to the Outlook Web Access log on screen.

Can Anyone help.

What company do you work for? How random would it be if someone on here worked for the same people and could supply the details!

Steve

Would have thought it would be along the lines of:

https://mailer.companyname.org

Cheers, tried that to no luck. I think somethings not setup correctly since our new server.

Are you getting the login box or just page not found?

It could be that the exchange server, if separate from the domain controller, has lost the link to the domain controller so is unable to validate the login credentials. Alternatively check the domain controller services as some may have stalled - specifically the computer browser service springs to mind, but it's been a few months since we had problems with that on our system.

If its a small -medium sized organisation and you know the domain name, you will usually get the IP address and access to OWA like this...

Go to a command prompt (Start> Run> cmd) and then pinging the DNS entry for the mail server, usually this would be one of the following-

ping mail.domainname.co.uk

or

ping mailgate.domainname.co.uk

It probaby won't return any ping replies, but the IP address should be shown in brackets.

You would then note this down and go to a web browser and enter the following:

http:///exchange

or

https:///exchange

Hope this helps

Again a bit late, however if you are in the position of needing to get to a mail server and you know the domain i.e the bit after the @ symbol all you need is to check the mx record. This record (and its contained entries) points sending mail servers where to send mail (amoung other things).

Good site to check an MX record as well as a lot of other stuff is dnsstuff.com

once you have the hostname or IP for the mail server from the MX record all you need to do is telnet it on port 25 or 110 depending on the mail servers config (110 is standard for pop incomin and 25 for smtp outgoing, however telnet sessions can often be established on either)

Instrcutions for telnet easily avail on google.

Once again, sorry i know its far to late but hey what can you do

Here at Sheffield hallam uni ours is this....

https://exchange.shu.ac.uk

i believe the exchange should come first before the locator

Again a bit late, however if you are in the position of needing to get to a mail server and you know the domain i.e the bit after the @ symbol all you need is to check the mx record. This record (and its contained entries) points sending mail servers where to send mail (amoung other things).

Good site to check an MX record as well as a lot of other stuff is dnsstuff.com

once you have the hostname or IP for the mail server from the MX record all you need to do is telnet it on port 25 or 110 depending on the mail servers config (110 is standard for pop incomin and 25 for smtp outgoing, however telnet sessions can often be established on either)

Instrcutions for telnet easily avail on google.

Once again, sorry i know its far to late but hey what can you do

This will only work on the very smallest of set ups. Any reasonably sized mail system will have the user mail stores on servers other than the external-facing mail relays. You'll always be able to get a smtp connection to the mx servers (that's what they're there for), but probably not pop/imap/owa

Here at Sheffield hallam uni ours is this....

https://exchange.shu.ac.uk

i believe the exchange should come first before the locator

Nope , Exchange 2000 and 2003 (and 2007 at a guess) have the Outlook Web Access pages hosted at http:///exchange

It's possible to change a few settings in the IIS console to remove the /exchange bit so that you can browse to just the server name , and the server name can be altered to just about anything via the magic of DNS.

Some companies will use exchange but it could be anything. To connect to ours from the net it's at http://webmail.company.com/exchange , but the actual server name is something different to webmail

Looking up the mx record is no guarentee either, our frontend OWA server is a totally different ip address/server to the one that deals with incoming email.

ours takes the form of https://webmail.companyname/exchange.

ours is https://webmail.companyname.com