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DavidL555
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Hicksville, NY
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May 2nd, @11:24AM
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Re: VPN to Map Network Drive over Internet
Joel,
Thanks for the detailed response.
I was told the following by the network admin:
"According to the hosted exchange providers - for one technical reason or another, the http over rpc protocal that they all use to get hosted exchange, does NOT work on citrix."
I'd be more than happy to connect to hosted exchange using outlook through Citrix, but the statement above seems to eliminate that option. The Citrix server is local to the file server, so that would be fine, if it could be done.
The goal here is to be able to avoid using OWA, but still have some way to attach files that are on the remote file server to my emails. I am told that OWA through Citrix would work and I'd have the files local to that connection, but I don't want to use OWA.
I don't think there would be any problems connecting my local outlook to the hosted exchange provider, so I don't think there's any need for a VPN tunnel to the exchange host.
My thought was some sort of VPN to the company file server, so that I can use a local version of Outlook that's connected to the Exchange host and be able to attach/save a file off the remote file server. Does that make any sense? | |
JoelC707
join:2002-07-09
Tucson, AZ
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May 2nd, @11:42AM
| said by DavidL555  :I was told the following by the network admin: "According to the hosted exchange providers - for one technical reason or another, the http over rpc protocal that they all use to get hosted exchange, does NOT work on citrix." I hate to sound just the opposite here but there is no technical reason why RPC over HTTP(S) will not work on Citrix. Do they have instructions for setting RPC over HTTP(S) up on any other workstation, such as your home desktop? If so then it means they do have it in place and short of any oddities caused by Citrix (I personally abandoned Citrix 3 years ago because of various oddities) it should work on the Citrix server just fine.
I don't think there would be any problems connecting my local outlook to the hosted exchange provider, so I don't think there's any need for a VPN tunnel to the exchange host. The reason for a VPN tunnel to the hosting provider (and this would go between the provider and your office not your home) would be to give you the "normal" RPC access Outlook needs. Basically with a tunnel to the provider, you appear as just another node on their network and any and all traffic that can pass on your local network could pass across the tunnel to the hosting provider. This would make the Exchange server appear local, eliminating the need for RPC over HTTP(S) and also eliminating the need for OWA.
My thought was some sort of VPN to the company file server, so that I can use a local version of Outlook that's connected to the Exchange host and be able to attach/save a file off the remote file server. Does that make any sense?
Yes, that makes sense. This tunnel is the same kind of tunnel you would setup between your home desktop and your work network which is how you could map drives across it. I don't think it is needed though unless you also want direct access to your files without the need of Citrix. Basically if you can get RPC over HTTP(S) working on your local computer then there should be no reason why Citrix would stop it.
Edit: Here is a thread I found on this subject. It doesn't give a definitive answer but still: »www.petri.co.il/forums/showthread.php?t=5802
And here are some other links for you: »www.petri.co.il/configure_outloo···http.htm
»www.petri.co.il/testing_rpc_over···tion.htm
I checked on my TS server (Microsoft version of Citrix basically) and I have all the necessary options in Outlook 2003 to enable RPC over HTTP(s). | |
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