Question : Remote Web Workplace Will Not Run Locally

I have just installed a Small Business Server 2003. Our SBS 2003 R2 sits behind a Serviced Accommodations router.  Their router is set up to port forward all the default SBS ports to another company in the building.  I wanted my users to access OWA on their server using SBS so I had to change the default ports. I found out how to change the ports for OWA, and that is successfully running – on ports HTTP 1225 and HTTPS 1226.  I now want my users to access Remote Web Workplace initially and once this is working Company Web and maybe VPN.

I don’t know if this is connected or not but I can’t now run Remote Web Workspace (or Company Web) on the server locally.  As I understand it this means that they won’t be able to access it remotely – my idea is to try and get it to run locally first.

My main issue at present is to get Remote Web Workplace running for them as they wish to access an accountancy package called IRIS from their home PCs  which will use RDP being the protocol, as I understand it, that Remote Web Workplace uses.

To help me out the Serviced Accommodations IT guy purchased another router last week and dedicated it to us and said I could now use all the SBS default ports which means that I can change back the ports for OWA to the default ones - 80 and 443.  I did this last week and Remote Web Workplace (and Company Web) still will not run on the server locally.

I have checked all the default setting in IIS including permissions etc as per a book called Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed (Sams Publishing) and still no joy.

I noticed that in the ISAPI tab in IIS that there is a red arrow next to a filter called SBSFLT.  I have removed this and put it back in again and it appears green.  When I right click Default Web site and select Browse (I get an error page in IE7 something like page not found) and then recheck the arrow it has turned red again.

Can anyone help me get Remote Web Workplace working?

Answer : Remote Web Workplace Will Not Run Locally

Terrific!  Glad you got it going!

Jeff
TechSoEasy