HTTP error 500 on auth.owa after Exchange rollup 3

May 12th, 2011 by Geoff Kendal 5 Comments

After an upgrade to Exchange 2010 SP1, to add the update rollup 3 (v3), OWA stopped logging users in, instead just leaving them on a blank page (This was really a HTTP 500 error page for auth.owa).

Turns out that the “Microsoft Exchange Forms-Based Authentication service” was not restarted after the patching. Starting the service fixes this issue.

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5 Responses to “HTTP error 500 on auth.owa after Exchange rollup 3”

ibrahim

May 28th, 2011 - 11:28 am

Wow… i face the same problem, thx

Gregor

December 11th, 2011 - 2:08 am

Thanks, fixed the issue for me!

krishnam

February 9th, 2012 - 3:52 am

Thanks so much! i was encountering same issue!

Keith

April 10th, 2012 - 4:32 pm

Thanks. That was such a simple fix and I wouldn’t have looked there for hours. ;)

Kristoffer

May 9th, 2012 - 8:54 am

I had the same problem with our Exchange 2010 SP1. I dident even know there were a problem untill a user told me, because I am not nonitoring the service.

I monitor the website, but that show up as “working” because the site loads. It was only after they log’ed in the were problems

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