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Entirely disable OWA/Port 80All,
Could anyone tell me whether it's possible to entirely disable IIS and not impact other Exchange 2003 operations please? I'm considering disabling the 'WWW Publishing' and 'IIS Admin' services so that the server is no longer listening on port 80. I'm running Cisco Unity Voicemail, with a single Exchange 2003 SP2 server, so there's no need to offer OWA as users themselves never login to a mailbox. Many thanks James. James.Brown <james.m.h.br***@googlemail.com> wrote:
Show quoteHide quote > All, I would leave it be. What's the harm? It's very useful for testing.> > Could anyone tell me whether it's possible to entirely disable IIS and > not impact other Exchange 2003 operations please? I'm considering > disabling the 'WWW Publishing' and 'IIS Admin' services so that the > server is no longer listening on port 80. > > I'm running Cisco Unity Voicemail, with a single Exchange 2003 SP2 > server, so there's no need to offer OWA as users themselves never > login to a mailbox. > > Many thanks > > James. You can block access to it from the internert entirely (and you'd never want to have port 80 open to your Exchange server anyway). You can also disable OWA access per mailbox. I wouldn't mess around with IIS.
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"James.Brown" <james.m.h.br***@googlemail.com> wrote in message ActiveSync and OMA will stop working, but if you don't want to use OWA, you news:cd6b4da1-bd55-4722-aa6a-366d3f0e1dd6@k8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com... > All, > > Could anyone tell me whether it's possible to entirely disable IIS and > not impact other Exchange 2003 operations please? I'm considering > disabling the 'WWW Publishing' and 'IIS Admin' services so that the > server is no longer listening on port 80. > > I'm running Cisco Unity Voicemail, with a single Exchange 2003 SP2 > server, so there's no need to offer OWA as users themselves never > login to a mailbox. > > Many thanks > > James. probably won't care about that. You won't be able to use Exchange Management Console to administer your Public Folder, since EMC uses WebDAV to retrieve information about them, and WebDAV is an extension of HTTP. If you are prepared to use Outlook for PF admin (which is probably actually better), then you can live without IIS. Oh, Entourage clients might not work, either. They want to use WebDAV to communicate with the server, and I'm not sure how they'll react if it's not available. Probably not work, unless they can fall back on RPC. Lee. -- ______________________________________ Outlook Web Access For PDA , OWA For WAP www.leederbyshire.com lee a.t leederbyshire d.o.t c.o.m ______________________________________ Crap. I forgot about the WM devices
Show quoteHide quote "Lee Derbyshire [MVP]" <email a@t leederbyshire d.0.t c.0.m> wrote in message news:#S4YLlx#JHA.3320@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > "James.Brown" <james.m.h.br***@googlemail.com> wrote in message > news:cd6b4da1-bd55-4722-aa6a-366d3f0e1dd6@k8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com... >> All, >> >> Could anyone tell me whether it's possible to entirely disable IIS and >> not impact other Exchange 2003 operations please? I'm considering >> disabling the 'WWW Publishing' and 'IIS Admin' services so that the >> server is no longer listening on port 80. >> >> I'm running Cisco Unity Voicemail, with a single Exchange 2003 SP2 >> server, so there's no need to offer OWA as users themselves never >> login to a mailbox. >> >> Many thanks >> >> James. > > ActiveSync and OMA will stop working, but if you don't want to use OWA, > you probably won't care about that. You won't be able to use Exchange > Management Console to administer your Public Folder, since EMC uses WebDAV > to retrieve information about them, and WebDAV is an extension of HTTP. > If you are prepared to use Outlook for PF admin (which is probably > actually better), then you can live without IIS. Oh, Entourage clients > might not work, either. They want to use WebDAV to communicate with the > server, and I'm not sure how they'll react if it's not available. > Probably not work, unless they can fall back on RPC. > > Lee. > > -- > ______________________________________ > > Outlook Web Access For PDA , OWA For WAP > www.leederbyshire.com > lee a.t leederbyshire d.o.t c.o.m > ______________________________________ > > Lee/All,
Thank you very much for your responses. I think I will go ahead and disable IISAdmin and associated services. This exchange server exists for one purpose alone - to allow the Cisco Unity Message Store account to file away and retrieve voicemails using MAPI. It's outside our normal domain, so any services I can cut down on are a good thing, as our normal security policies and patching doesn't reach here. I just wanted to check that there's no internal Exchange processes that rely on port 80 to achieve their tasks. Regards James. Show quoteHide quote On 2 July, 15:55, "Martin Blackstone [MVP]" <mart***@myrealbox.com> wrote: > Crap. I forgot about the WM devices > > "Lee Derbyshire [MVP]" <email a@t leederbyshire d.0.t c.0.m> wrote in > messagenews:#S4YLlx#JHA.3***@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > > > "James.Brown" <james.m.h.br***@googlemail.com> wrote in message > >news:cd6b4da1-bd55-4722-aa6a-366d3f0e1dd6@k8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com... > >> All, > > >> Could anyone tell me whether it's possible to entirely disable IIS and > >> not impact other Exchange 2003 operations please? I'm considering > >> disabling the 'WWW Publishing' and 'IIS Admin' services so that the > >> server is no longer listening on port 80. > > >> I'm running Cisco Unity Voicemail, with a single Exchange 2003 SP2 > >> server, so there's no need to offer OWA as users themselves never > >> login to a mailbox. > > >> Many thanks > > >> James. > > > ActiveSync and OMA will stop working, but if you don't want to use OWA, > > you probably won't care about that. You won't be able to use Exchange > > Management Console to administer your Public Folder, since EMC uses WebDAV > > to retrieve information about them, and WebDAV is an extension of HTTP. > > If you are prepared to use Outlook for PF admin (which is probably > > actually better), then you can live without IIS. Oh, Entourage clients > > might not work, either. They want to use WebDAV to communicate with the > > server, and I'm not sure how they'll react if it's not available. > > Probably not work, unless they can fall back on RPC. > > > Lee. > > > -- > > ______________________________________ > > > Outlook Web Access For PDA , OWA For WAP > >www.leederbyshire.com > > lee a.t leederbyshire d.o.t c.o.m > > ______________________________________ Just block it at the firewall.
Honestly, is someone using it internally going to cause some kind of issue? Show quoteHide quote "James.Brown" <james.m.h.br***@googlemail.com> wrote in message news:cd6b4da1-bd55-4722-aa6a-366d3f0e1dd6@k8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com... > All, > > Could anyone tell me whether it's possible to entirely disable IIS and > not impact other Exchange 2003 operations please? I'm considering > disabling the 'WWW Publishing' and 'IIS Admin' services so that the > server is no longer listening on port 80. > > I'm running Cisco Unity Voicemail, with a single Exchange 2003 SP2 > server, so there's no need to offer OWA as users themselves never > login to a mailbox. > > Many thanks > > James. 
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