Web App authentication with OWA

[TwistedPair]

Hi All,
We have an ASP app that wants to talk to Exchange. We want to minimize the
amount of places where the user needs to enter their username and password.
To this end, our lovely developers found a way to make it so that once
logged into the apps (using basic authentication) their usernam and password
is embedded into the links to exchange, so it looks like this:

<!--<a
href="https://username:pass...@mail.owaaddress.com/public/Public%20Calendar
/?Cmd=contents" sticky=true radio="DAYVIEW;WEEKVIEW">Calendar</a>-->

This, of course, is not good for obvious reasons. One recommendation was to
remove the functionality of adding in the username and passwords, but
install an exchange front-end on the server that is hosting this app. That
way it would not have to travel accross the domain to another server and
have to log in. However both machines are on the same domain. Shouldn't
their credentials just work? If I switched it to integrated auth, and
removed the usernames and passwords, would that work?

Thanks,
Pair

[TwistedPair]

[Karl Levinson [x y] mvp]

I'd recommend going to www.iisfaq.com and to the Authentication section and
look for a link about how to implement "single sign on."

As you may know, basic authentication done with one server doesn't
automatically get you into other servers, regardless of what domain the
machines are joined to. As you may also know, there are some issues with
using integrated authentication through firewalls, if that's your intention.

Yes, installing the web front end onto another web server on the domain
should make both those web sites work with just one authentication required.
It's also probably better than running the IIS front end on your actual
exchange server, at least according to Microsoft's recommendation for OWA
setup.

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[TwistedPair]

Thank you Karl. That definitely helps.

Pair
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