I am having problems connecting to Exchange via cfexchangeconnection. Our
ColdFusion environment is CF9 Enterprise on Win 2008, and the Exchange host is
Win SBS 2008 (which uses IIS7).
After having worked through the documentation and following all procedures
outlined at
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec14f31-7fed.html
plus googling intensively, we have the following method to test the connection
cfexchangeconnection action=open
connection=thisExchangeConnection
server=portal.mydomain.com
protocol=https
formBasedAuthentication=true
formBasedAuthenticationURL=https://portal.mydomain.com/owa/auth/owaauth.dll;
mailboxname=myMailBox
username=myUsername
password=myPassword /
cfdump var=#thisExchangeConnection#
cfexchangeconnection action=close
connection=thisExchangeConnection /
The IIS7 implementation in SBS 2008 is quite a lot different to Win 2008, so
there are some question marks around some steps in the above documentation.
However, we have made sure that:-
1) you can use the credentials above to login via a web browser
2) WebDav is on in IIS
3) there is no IWA and forms based authentication is on
4) certificates are installed correctly on both the CF and Exchange servers
5) the myUsernameaccount has correct permissions in iis/owa/exchange
Despite this, the net result is always
Access to the Exchange server denied.
Ensure that the user name and password are correct.
From research it seems that a lot of people have issues where the underlying
problem is actually an Exchange 440 timeout error where the password in the
IUSR_servername and IWAM_servername (IIS/Active Directory) is out of sync.
I was pinning my hopes on the above being the problem but now I find that in
SBS 2008 there is no IWAM_servername server account.
All this leads me to ask is SBS 2008 actually compatible with the cfexchange
tags in CF9? There is nothing in the documentation that I can find that syays
that it isn't, but given the amount of time we've spent on what should be
straightforward I am wondering if we are on a hiding to nothing. Anyone from
Adobe care to comment?
If anyone has managed to get this to work specifically with SBS 2008, or has
any advice I'd be grateful to here from you.
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