Hi,
I've been using the exchange team's blog post (http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/08/05/part-3-reverse-proxy-for-exchange-server-2013-using-iis-arr.aspx) as a guidelin on configuring my ARR deployment in my lab.
Everything was working perfectly right until i got the last part of the blog on restricting the pattern matches.
The rewrite rules all work fine and everything is working as expected with the excpetion of the fact that i cannot access the options in OWA. ECP itself works great if i access it via thehttps://ecp.domain.com/ecp url, but as soon as i use the https//mail.domain.com/ecp it just wont display anything.
Looking at the failed request logs it just shows that it executes a 302 rewrite to ecp.domain.com, which is what i would expect it to base done rewrite rule matchinghttps://mail.domain.com/ecp to the ecp.domain.com server farm.
If i look at the iis logs it looks like it's getting into some sort of loop (the section below is about a 10% of a single attempt to access the options pages:
2014-06-28 12:25:38 xxx.xxx.xx.xxx GET /ecp/ rfr=owa&X-ARR-CACHE-HIT=0&X-ARR-LOG-ID=6983c585-b0ea-4fd0-9bb1-fc747ee8e992 443 - xxx.xxx.xx.xxx Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+7.0;+Windows+NT+6.2;+WOW64;+Trident/6.0;+.NET4.0E;+.NET4.0C)
- 302 0 0 15
2014-06-28 12:25:38 xxx.xxx.xx.xxx GET /ecp rfr=owa/&X-ARR-CACHE-HIT=0&X-ARR-LOG-ID=d32a3a4f-d8a6-4712-91d4-56360be33793 443 - xxx.xxx.xx.xxx Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+7.0;+Windows+NT+6.2;+WOW64;+Trident/6.0;+.NET4.0E;+.NET4.0C)
- 302 0 0 0
2014-06-28 12:25:38 xxx.xxx.xx.xxx GET /ecp rfr=owa//&X-ARR-CACHE-HIT=0&X-ARR-LOG-ID=14797897-f1ad-454a-b73c-fde041a43d2b 443 - xxx.xxx.xx.xxx Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+7.0;+Windows+NT+6.2;+WOW64;+Trident/6.0;+.NET4.0E;+.NET4.0C)
- 302 0 0 0
Did anyone ever run into something like this? Or have an idea where i may have made a mistake? I've tried everything i could think of.
The rewrite rules i have in place are basically exactly the same as the exchange team's blog but just in case i overlooked somehthing, please se the image below.
thanks in advance for your time