Dave
8/5/2004 11:05:00 AM
I had the same problems as you. The path was definitely wrong on my system,
so I changed it. I will go see if I can find the article I found.
Also, check DIRECTORY SECURITY settings and make sure it (OMA) isn''t
restricted to internal computers only.
Dave
"Paul Cotgrove" <pcotgrove@networkingfutures.co.uk> wrote in message
news:577a49c1.0408042227.753d4811@posting.google.com...
> Hi
>
> I have had untold issues trying to get OMA working from an
> out-of-the-box installation of Exchange 2003. My configuration is a
> single server running Windows Server 2003 with all relevant
> WindowsUpdate hotfixes applied, Exchange 2003, EXCH2003 SP1 and
> associated hotfixes.
>
> OWA works like a dream and Exchange works superbly in all other
> aspects of its operation, i.e. SMTP, POP3, etc.
>
> I started to configure OMA as follows:
>
> Enable the Mobile Access within the ESM Global properties also
> allowing unsupported devices - enabled users with AD for Mobile Access
>
> This gave me a 403 failure after authentication so I read a few
> technet articles and removed and reinstalled the .NET framework 1.1
> Mobile Device Support 4.0
>
> This moved me on to an error which basically said that my mailbox
> could not be located - back to technet where I found an article
> telling me to correct the VirtualDir name in a registry string value.
> This value did not exist so I created it which lead me to the
> following error:
>
> Item no longer exists. The item you are attempting to access may have
> been deleted or moved.
>
> Again, I have read many articles within these newsgroups and chased
> links to technet articles that dont appear to exist anymore, even
> though this product is only a year or so old!!!!
>
> Anyway, one article I read said that the path for the OMA virtual
> directory should point to the same location as the Exchange virtual
> directory, something along the lines of
> \\.\BackOfficeStorage\mydomain.co.uk\mbx where mydomain.co.uk is the
> organisation that I have installed.
>
> Currently, the path is set to C:\Program Files\Microsoft
> Exchange\blah\blah\OMA\browse and I am seeing files in this location.
>
> When I point the path to \\.\BackOfficeStorage\mydomain.co.uk\mbx
> there are no files there and all I get is 404 Page not founds!!
>
> Does anybody have any idea why this is proving to be such a pain to
> get working? Also, can someone shed some light on the missing technet
> articles on the MS site?
>
> Many thanks in advance to anyone who can assist with this, I have no
> more hair to pull out!!!