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Windows Essential Business Server (code name “Centro”) was announced today. Cool stuff…
More information can be found at Microsoft Small Business Community Blog
Feb-27-08
Access companyweb from a remote location when https is not allowed over port 444
posted by Costas Tsaklas
It could happen to all of us. We own a small business and we rely on SBS 2003 to run it. We work at a client and their firewall prevents https over port 444. How can we access SharePoint (companyweb)? Well, there is a solution as long as we run ISA 2004.
Create an A record that points to the external IP of the server (e.g. wss.publicdomain.com). Go to ISA Server and copy the SBS Windows SharePoint Services Web Publishing Rule. Paste it and rename it to something like CompanyWeb external
Edit the listener and change it from SBS CompanyWeb listener to SBS Web listener. We want incoming requests to be received on port 443
Under the Link Translation tab check the Replace absolute links in Web pages to make sure that URLs that use relative paths are being translated properly
Check to make sure that the Redirect requests to SSL port is pointing to port 444
Finally under Public Name add the of the FQDN that we will use to access the site
That’s about it. If we open a browser and we type https://wss.publicdomain.com we should be seeing the companyweb SharePoint site
