How to disable autologin to OWA from the customer's CP?

Vitaly Filatov — 2008-03-26 03:30:37

How to disable autologin to OWA from the customer's CP?

Article ID: 4606

Last Review: Feb,4 2009

Author: Vitaly Filatov
Last updated by: Vitaly Filatov APPLIES TO:

Parallels Operations Automation 2.6
Parallels Operations Automation 2.7

Cause

Some providers do not allow customer's CP users (Account Administrators) to access end users' mailboxes by hiding passwords. However, autologin to Outlook Web Access is still available and can be used for unauthorized access.

Resolution

Until feature request #117998 is processed, there is no way to disable the OWA link using the POA CP. The only way is to adjust database properties in the following way:

BEGIN;
UPDATE exch_protocols_services SET owa_dir='' WHERE service_id=;
COMMIT;

where is appropriate service id, it can be selected using the query below:

SELECT service_id, host, ip_addr FROM exch_protocols_services p 
    JOIN exch_nlb_clusters c USING(cluster_id) 
    JOIN dns_resource_records d ON(d.rr_id = c.dns_record_id);

For example:

plesk=> SELECT service_id, host, ip_addr FROM exch_protocols_services p
plesk-> JOIN exch_nlb_clusters c USING(cluster_id)
plesk-> JOIN dns_resource_records d ON(d.rr_id = c.dns_record_id);
 service_id |              host               |     ip_addr
------------+---------------------------------+-----------------
        119 | exchange.example.com.     | 064.131.091.165
        132 | exchange2007.example.com. | 064.131.091.112
(2 rows)

To disable OWA autologin for exchange2007.example.com use 132 as service id:

plesk=> BEGIN;
BEGIN
plesk=> UPDATE exch_protocols_services SET owa_dir='' WHERE service_id=132;
UPDATE 1
plesk=> COMMIT;
COMMIT

After this update is performed, OWA link from the customer's CP may get broken, returning error 404 for the following URL:

https://exchange2007.example.com/auth/owaauth.dll

To resolve this issue one may setup a redirect (this should be done on all CAS servers or Front-ends participaiting in the NLB cluster):

1. Create an empty file C:\inetpub\wwwroot\auth\owaauth.dll
2. Set the following options for file "/auth/owaauth.dll" in IIS Management Console on the Default Site:

"Redirection to a URL" - selected
"Redirect to:" - /owa
"Exact URL entered above" - checked

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