User receives a 500 Server error page after authentication on the FE server.
Originally Published: 2008-07-24
Last Modified: 2023-10-06
Article Number
000050823
Applies To
Access Manager agent for IIS 6

OWA

Exchange 2003

Frontend / Backend topology

Protocol transition

Issue
User receives a 500 Server error page after authentication on the FE server.
"HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error" when accessing OWA frontend server

Cause
After implementing SSO into OWA in a FE/BE scenario (IIS6 with protocol transition) by following the instructions in the agent's manual and solution How to configureOutlook Web Access (OWA) with front end and back endservers for SSO using ClearTrust, users attempting to SSO into OWA on the FE receive an "Internal Server error (HTTP 500)", right after having passed Access Manager's authentication.

Resolution
Please ensure that the domain account configured in the IIS's "Directory Security" settings in order to grant anonymous access to the /exchange, /exchweb and /public directory on the FE does also have an Exchange mailbox.

If needed, create a mailbox for that user using the appropriate Exchange tools.