Exchange 2010/2007: Redirect standard website directly to /OWA

If you only use IIS7 (Internet Information Service) and the standard website for OWA and want to redirect calls to https://exchange.frankysweb.de directly to https://exchange.frankysweb.de/owa, you can use the IIS role service "HTTP redirection".

First, if not already installed, the "HTTP redirection" role service must be installed for the IIS role. The easiest way to do this is via the server manager or via Powershell:

Powershell:

Import modules servermanager

Add-windowsfeature web-http-redirect

After installing the role service, there is a new item called "HTTP redirection" in the IIS Manager under the default website

Here we can now set that all requests to https://owa.frankysweb.de, for example, should be redirected directly to https://owa.frankysweb.de/owa. By default, only the IIS test page appears when the page https://owa.frankysweb.de is called up. So check the box "Redirect requests to this destination" and specify the address to which you want to redirect. In this example https://owa.frankysweb.de/owa.

Finally, check the box "Redirect requests to this directory" and enter "Found 302" as the status code (activated by default).

Now don't forget to click on "Apply". That's all there is to it.