Single sign on for Outlook web access

[Vince Varallo]

Hello everyone,
Is there any way to create a single sign on solution that can authenticate a
user and then store the credentials and pass them to outlook web accees?

Essentially we want the first web page to ask the user for the user name and
password and the second page to give the user options of what applications
they can access, one of them being Outlook Web Access.

Thanks for your help,
Vince

 

[Ken Schaefer]

Doesn't ISA Server 2006 give you this functionality?

Cheers
Ken

 

[Andy Melick]

Vince,

I am currently doing the exact process you are asking about. However, I am
doing this in Classic ASP. I have a 'forms based' authentication page that
authenticates the user via LDAP, checking for group memberships etc. It
captures the username & password to session objects for use with passing
these variables to other apps via the portal. Currently I am doing a
javascript auto form post when the user clicks on the OWA link to
authenticate them into OWA. This is definatly not the best way to do this if
you are worried about security issues. Due to the fact if the user was smart
enough to stop the page or screenscrap the action they could see the
password in clear text. If you would like to see some examples let me know.

I am currently transitioning my portal to ASP.NET and will probly look into
authenticating via the OWA API if possible. However, I am new to ASP.NET so
this will be a huge task for me.

Andy