The Web Storage System URLs are constructed in the
following manner:
Aliases do not necessarily represent a unique
mailbox, and they have nothing to do with the data of the path user. User
object Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) addresses are used to identify the
path to a mailbox in Exchange 2000, and they must be unique (note that you may
also use a secondary SMTP address for this purpose).
This match is
done by adding the left hand side (LHS) of your mail attribute to the primary
SMTP address from the default recipient policy. This must match any of the
entries in your proxy addresses.
Therefore, the domain at the root of
drive M (and correspondingly, the path to which the Exchange IIS virtual
directory points) is used to identify which mailbox is being
accessed.
Username@
domain.com
= left-hand-side@right-hand-side (or LHS@RHS)
In this example, the
path to a user mailbox is
M:\
domain.com\mbx\
username
(in other words, M:\RHS\mbx\LHS).
Because the Exchange path points
to M:\RHS\mbx, the full path to an item in the inbox is
http://server/exchange/LHS/Inbox/item.eml
By default, user SMTP
addresses are
alias@
recipientpolicy.com.
M:\RHS\mbx\LHS maps to a unique user object's mailbox and is always
addressable.
To test this, start the Active Directory Users and
Computers snap-in, and then add a random, unique SMTP LHS address to a user
object that you can access in drive M. For example, add UserA@microsoft.com to
the Administrator account administrator@microsoft.com. Then, open a command
prompt, go to the M: drive, and then type
CD RHS\mbx\LHS
of the secondary SMTP proxy you just added. In other words, log on to the
server as the administrator and type
CD
microsoft.com\mbx\UserA. Note that you see the contents of the
administrator account mailbox, even though you did not type that primary SMTP
proxy address.
If you type
http://server/exchange in the address bar of a browser,
you are prompted for credentials. After you have supplied credentials, you see
an HTML frames page that contains a left frame that has the source
http://server/exchange/rhs/?cmd=navbar and a right frame that has the source
http://server/exchange/rhs/inbox/?cmd=contents. The end user does not have to
know more than the Exchange path (and even less if the URL is set as an
Internet Explorer (IE) favorite or presented as a hotlink on a corporate Web
page).
For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
293386�
HTTP 401 or 404 error messages when you access OWA implicitly or explicitly
The
domain.com
is actually based on the default recipient policy.
For additional information, click the
following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
259589�
XADM: How Installable File System Generates the Domain Name