Friday, October 29, 2004

Got a funky looking Outlook Web Access from the Internet?

Worked on a SBS 2003 install tonight that had a funky looking Outlook Web Access (OWA) whenever you accessed it from the Internet. However, when you used it from the internal LAN or Intranet it worked just fine. I had remembered there was some problems by others with this but here's what you can try.

Applied Microsoft KB 831464 . (This is the IIS 6.0 Compression KB. Make sure you install this on all IIS 6.0 boxes.)
Rebooted (after making sure noone was on the system)
Deleted %windows%\iis temporary compressed files
Went to a Command Prompt and issued "iisreset".

You also need to make sure and have users delete their temp Internet files in the cache for their browser as well.

This fixed my problem and hopefully if you ever need it it'll help you out as well.