Configure Internal and External URL in Exchange 2016

After installing Exchange Server 2016 and configuring the DNS namespace, what’s next? The next step is to configure Internal and External URL in Exchange 2016. Configuring the URLs can be done with Exchange Admin Center (EAC) or with PowerShell. Well, almost all parts can be configured with EAC, because one part (AutoDiscover) needs to be configured with PowerShell. In this article, you will learn how to configure URLs in Exchange Server 2016.

Information Internal and External URL in Exchange 2016

We have an internal domain named exoip.local and external domain exoip.com. In my example, we are going to configure the namespace mail.exoip.com. This way we can buy a third-party certificate for Exchange Server. We will configure the internal and external URLs with the same name. Almost all the URLs will have the mail.exoip.com in the configuration. That’s because the AutoDiscover URL will be different.

Service                  Internal and External URL
-------                  -------------------------
AutoDiscover             https://autodiscover.exoip.com/Autodiscover/Autodiscover.xml
Exchange Control Panel   https://mail.exoip.com/ecp
Exchange Web Services    https://mail.exoip.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx
Exchange ActiveSync      https://mail.exoip.com/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync
Offline Address Book     https://mail.exoip.com/OAB
Outlook Web App          https://mail.exoip.com/owa
MAPI over HTTP           https://mail.exoip.com/mapi
Outlook Anywhere         mail.exoip.com

Do you like to know how the current Exchange URLs are configured? Read the article Find Exchange Server URLs with PowerShell.

An architecture view of the Exchange 2016 namespace is shown below in the topology.

Configure internal and External URL in Exchange with PowerShell

Log in to the Exchange Server 2016. Run Exchange Management Shell as administrator. Set the virtual directory for every component and verify it after. If you like to set the URLs on all the Exchange Servers, remove -Server EX01-2016 from each command. In our example, we like to configure URLs on this particular Exchange Server, this is why we are using the -Server parameter.

Configure URL for Autodiscover.

[PS] C:\>Set-ClientAccessServer -Identity EX01-2016 –AutoDiscoverServiceInternalUri https://autodiscover.exoip.com/Autodiscover/Autodiscover.xml

[PS] C:\>Get-ClientAccessService -Identity EX01-2016 | Format-List Identity, AutoDiscoverServiceInternalUri

Identity                       : EX01-2016
AutoDiscoverServiceInternalUri : https://autodiscover.exoip.com/Autodiscover/Autodiscover.xml

Configure URL for Exchange Control Panel (ECP).

[PS] C:\>Get-EcpVirtualDirectory -Server EX01-2016 | Set-EcpVirtualDirectory -ExternalUrl https://mail.exoip.com/ecp -InternalUrl https://mail.exoip.com/ecp

[PS] C:\>Get-EcpVirtualDirectory -Server EX01-2016 | Format-List InternalUrl, ExternalUrl

InternalUrl : https://mail.exoip.com/ecp
ExternalUrl : https://mail.exoip.com/ecp

Configure URL for Exchange Web Services (EWS).

[PS] C:\>Get-WebServicesVirtualDirectory -Server EX01-2016 | Set-WebServicesVirtualDirectory -ExternalUrl https://mail.exoip.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx -InternalUrl https://mail.exoip.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx

[PS] C:\>Get-WebServicesVirtualDirectory -Server EX01-2016 | Format-List InternalUrl, ExternalUrl

InternalUrl : https://mail.exoip.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx
ExternalUrl : https://mail.exoip.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx

Configure URL for MAPI.

[PS] C:\>Get-MapiVirtualDirectory -Server EX01-2016 | Set-MapiVirtualDirectory -ExternalUrl https://mail.exoip.com/mapi -InternalUrl https://mail.exoip.com/mapi

[PS] C:\>Get-MapiVirtualDirectory -Server EX01-2016 | Format-List InternalUrl, ExternalUrl

InternalUrl : https://mail.exoip.com/mapi
ExternalUrl : https://mail.exoip.com/mapi

Configure URL for ActiveSync.

[PS] C:\>Get-ActiveSyncVirtualDirectory -Server EX01-2016 | Set-ActiveSyncVirtualDirectory -ExternalUrl https://mail.exoip.com/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync -InternalUrl https://mail.exoip.com/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync

[PS] C:\>Get-ActiveSyncVirtualDirectory -Server EX01-2016 | Format-List InternalUrl, ExternalUrl


InternalUrl : https://mail.exoip.com/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync
ExternalUrl : https://mail.exoip.com/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync

Configure URL for Offline Address Book (OAB).

[PS] C:\>Get-OabVirtualDirectory -Server EX01-2016 | Set-OabVirtualDirectory -ExternalUrl https://mail.exoip.com/OAB -InternalUrl https://mail.exoip.com/OAB

[PS] C:\>Get-OabVirtualDirectory -Server EX01-2016 | Format-List InternalUrl, ExternalUrl

InternalUrl : https://mail.exoip.com/OAB
ExternalUrl : https://mail.exoip.com/OAB

Configure URL for Outlook Web Access (OWA).

[PS] C:\>Get-OwaVirtualDirectory -Server EX01-2016 | Set-OwaVirtualDirectory -ExternalUrl https://mail.exoip.com/owa -InternalUrl https://mail.exoip.com/owa
WARNING: You've changed the InternalURL or ExternalURL for the OWA virtual directory. Please make the same change for the ECP virtual directory in the same website.

[PS] C:\>Get-OwaVirtualDirectory -Server EX01-2016 | Format-List InternalUrl, ExternalUrl

InternalUrl : https://mail.exoip.com/owa
ExternalUrl : https://mail.exoip.com/owa

Configure URL for PowerShell.

[PS] C:\>Get-PowerShellVirtualDirectory -Server EX01-2016 | Set-PowerShellVirtualDirectory -ExternalUrl https://mail.exoip.com/powershell -InternalUrl https://mail.exoip.com/powershell

[PS] C:\>Get-PowerShellVirtualDirectory -Server EX01-2016 | Format-List InternalUrl, ExternalUrl

InternalUrl : https://mail.exoip.com/powershell
ExternalUrl : https://mail.exoip.com/powershell

Configure URL for Outlook Anywhere.

[PS] C:\>Get-OutlookAnywhere -Server EX01-2016 | Set-OutlookAnywhere -ExternalHostname mail.exoip.com -InternalHostname mail.exoip.com -ExternalClientsRequireSsl $true -InternalClientsRequireSsl $true -DefaultAuthenticationMethod NTLM

[PS] C:\>Get-OutlookAnywhere -Server EX01-2016 | Format-List ExternalHostname, InternalHostname

ExternalHostname : mail.exoip.com
InternalHostname : mail.exoip.com

Configuring Internal and External URL in Exchange Server 2016 is completed successfully.

Conclusion

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