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Publishing Archive Explorer

RG009
Level 4

Hi All

We are trying to publish Archive explorer to the internet , so that user can directly access Archive explorer. We have multiple EV sites with in our organization. Is it possible to access archive explorer using one URL with the help of an EV proxy server ?

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JesusWept3
Level 6
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If you have multiple sites internally, you would need to publish them seperately, so for instance say you have the following


http://evserver.siteA.domain/EnterpriseVault/
http://evserver.siteB.domain/EnterpriseVault/
http://evserver.siteC.domain/EnterpriseVault/


You cannot publish something like http://mail.myCompany.com/EnterpriseVault/ and then have it display siteA/siteB/siteC depending on the credentials.

You would have to have something like
http://mail.myCompany.com/EnterpriseVault_SiteA/ -> http://evserver.siteA.domain/EnterpriseVault/
http://mail.myCompany.com/EnterpriseVault_SiteB/ -> http://evserver.siteB.domain/EnterpriseVault/
http://mail.myCompany.com/EnterpriseVault_SiteC/ -> http://evserver.siteC.domain/EnterpriseVault/

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JesusWept3
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

If you have multiple sites internally, you would need to publish them seperately, so for instance say you have the following


http://evserver.siteA.domain/EnterpriseVault/
http://evserver.siteB.domain/EnterpriseVault/
http://evserver.siteC.domain/EnterpriseVault/


You cannot publish something like http://mail.myCompany.com/EnterpriseVault/ and then have it display siteA/siteB/siteC depending on the credentials.

You would have to have something like
http://mail.myCompany.com/EnterpriseVault_SiteA/ -> http://evserver.siteA.domain/EnterpriseVault/
http://mail.myCompany.com/EnterpriseVault_SiteB/ -> http://evserver.siteB.domain/EnterpriseVault/
http://mail.myCompany.com/EnterpriseVault_SiteC/ -> http://evserver.siteC.domain/EnterpriseVault/

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RG009
Level 4

It seems the easiest option is to configure OWA access to EV. Thus, it is not required to perform any additional publishing of EV or proxy server requirements.

JesusWept3
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

If you configure and use OWA and you have those Enterprise Vault icons, they will point directly at the EV server via http://evserver/EnterpriseVault/, its meant to be configured so that you publish the /EnterpriseVault/ directory out so that people who want to use RPC over HTTPS or have the AE buttons available will work

 

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RG009
Level 4

Is there any security concern if we publish /enterprisevault directory ?   is it a better option to use the EV proxy server instead of publishing the EV server itself ?

Maverik
Level 6

I would recommend configuring this using SSL/HTTPS and not allowing access via HTTP.  There are various technotes surrounding EV and SSL via the support site so you may want to have a look around and see what info there is and what fits best for your environment.

RG009
Level 4

Can you please tell me if there is a document that explains exactly how to add a EV Proxy server to an existing EV site?  Not a single document out there that explains how to add it.  Do I just install another EV server in the site, and configure it to be a Proxy server?  Or do I install a "Stand alone" EV server and then somehow connect it to the site?

JesusWept3
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

Enterprise Vault has never really had a proxy server as such, when people talk about OWA and a Proxy they are usually talking about the /EnterpriseVaultProxy webdirectory that would be established on the EV server.

So what would happen is that say you had published out
http://mail.myCompany.com/
and your EV Server is http://evserver.company.domain/

Obviously evserver.company.domain is not reachable on the internet, but OWA is, so what you would have is the main EV Extensions installed on the OWA server and then a local /EnterpriseVaultProxy/ webdirectory that worked literally as a proxy and would only contain a couple of files.

Basically it set up a custom 404 error page, 404 being Page Could Not Be Found.
So you would go to http://mail.myCompany.com/EnterpriseVaultProxy/archiveExplorerUI.asp
ArchiveExplorerUI.asp doesn't actually exist in the Proxy web directory, so it would generate a 404 page could not be found , IIS would then call the custom 404 template that gets specified as part of the EV OWA install, and it would then call back to the internal EV Server for which ever page you specified (in this case archiveExplorerUI.asp

So you go to http://mail.myCompany.com/EnterpriseVaultProxy/Search.asp -> Page Could Not Be Found -> http://evserver.company.domain/EVAnon/Search.asp


Then when Exchange 2007 was released they removed the /EnterpriseVaultProxy/ functionality except for Exchange 2003 installations, and the same with Exchange 2010, with the instruction being that to just publish the /EnterpriseVault/ directory out via ISA/TMG etc

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Rafal
Not applicable

I am trying to accomplish the same as RG009.  So, for this to work, you would simply add another server to existing EV site, just don't add any archives, tasks, etc. to it?  This server would be dedicated to just the proxy function, and we'd publish the URL's via TMG? 

I also find it hard to find detailed documentation on how to add the EV Proxy server to service an exisiting EV site, i.e. a stand-alone server, or does it have to be part of exisiting site?.  Most of the documentation talks about configuring the EV proxy, but not how to actually build it.

JesusWept3
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

There is no such thing as an EV Proxy server, only an /EnterpriseVaultProxy/ virtual web directory that gets created when you configure OWA 2003, and NOT for OWA 2007 or 2010

For 2007 and 2010 it is recommended to publish your EV Servers /EnterpriseVault/ virtual directory via something such as ISA or TMG

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LCT
Level 6
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I agree with JW2, there no such thing as an EV Proxy server....if you want to publish your Archive Explorer externally then you can

either enable HTTPS for that EV server the publish it directly to the web with mapped public IP address....for example, https://EVsitename.domain.com mapped with EnterpriseVault virtual directory the same way you would do with your exchange server for OWA without using ISA/TMG. This is not recommended.

or you can publish your EV server/site using an ISA or TMG server, different rules for different EV sites.

or you can use the method that everyone uses by pubsling the EV server that integrates with the OWA rule using ISA/TMG and use the translation links to use Search and Archive Explorer....

http://www.shudnow.net/2008/06/24/publishing-symantec-enterprise-vault-in-isa-2006/

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH61472

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO59068

For security reasons people tends to use ISA/TMG for these kind of functions.

RG009
Level 4

Hi All,

i am talking about this link  http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO57496#v35813459

 

is this only used for Outlook any where ?

JesusWept3
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified
Ok so looking at this a proxy server means initial point of entry So for instance let's say you have one site with 12 EV servers, you wouldn't publish all 12 servers /EnterpriseVault/ virtual directories, your just publish the one So for instance let's say your archive is on EVServer04, internally when connected you would go to http://evserver04/EnterpriseVault/ as that's the most direct route BUT when you publish /EnterpriseVault/ to the Internet you will just publish the virtual directory from evserver01 So when you go to http://mail.yourCompany.com/EnterpriseVault/ it forwards to http://evserver01/EnterpriseVault/ and the background services communicate with evserver04 toget your archived items etc Seriously go back to my original post, it's your only choice
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