4 edits | said by Leathal:MAPI on the firewall are you nuts? MAPI is the most common hacked to death protocol. Anyhow I never use MAPI as it's for newbs. Outlook Anywhere FTW! Leathal Not sure WTF you're talking about, but you have no idea about Exchange. No one mentioned MAPI on any firewall. Read carefully before you bloviate.
Exchange uses RPC as the protocol used by the mailbox server role, whether internally or externally. Mailbox servers only connect to RPC clients. Internally, the Outlook clients use MAPI/RPC direct, and from the Internet they can connect via HTTPS with encapsualted RPC (RPC over HTTPS) and connect to the Exchange CAS server via a reverse proxy. The CAS then decrypts the HTTP packets and strips the encapsulated RPC packets and they are routed to the mailbox role.
RPC over HTTPS (Outlook Anywhere) is MAPI/RPC...just encapsulated in HTTPS. You wouldn't use Outlook Anywhere inside the corporate network...just plain old MAPI/RPC direct to the mailbox role.
I do this all day long...it's my job. I work for a large software company based in Redmond, WA and have worked with the guts of Exchange for 12 years. Hardly a noob. |
