Today I looked for a solution to edit the default OWA logon page. In our company we use a Form Based Authentication that is configured on a Forefront TMG 2010 server. Currently we are running an Exchange 2003 SP2 Frontend server. The OWA logon page looks like this by default:
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There is a way to configure this to our liking. Kay Sellenrode of platini.nl made an FBAeditor to configure this in an easy way. This tool does not have a way to change the color of the logon button and explanation text so at the end of this post i show you how to change that as well. So lets create some fancy company OWA logon screens.
Requirements
FBAeditor – can be found here (http://blogs.platani.nl/?p=257)
Company logo 115 x 456 pixels in GIF format
Company logo 115 x 500 pixels in GIF format
Steps
- First make a backup of C:\Program Files\Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway\Templates\CookieAuthTemplates\ with all sub directories
- Run FBAeditor on the TMG server and browse to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway\Templates\CookieAuthTemplates\Exchange\HTML\ (click on Source Dir)
- Now change the page you want to edit to : usr_pwd.htm (1.)
- Picture name : lgntopl.gif (2.)
- Text Language : select your country (3.)
- Select your new company logo (4.)
- Select apply to all pages and click apply. (5.) Now all htm files will be changed with the new company logo.
- By pressing Preview Page you can take a look on how its going to be. (6.)
- Many organizations don’t have 2 or more domains so we can change the domain\username text to Username
- Now change the page you want to edit to : usr_pwd.htm (1.)
- Select username (2.)
- Change the text from domain\username to Username (3.)
- Confirm the change by clicking Change Text (4.)
- When you are clicking on Preview Page you will see that the button and the explanation text has a color that does not match with the rest of the logon page. There is not a way that you can change this via the FBAeditor tool. We can achieve this by editing a file manually.
- Start notepad and browse to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway\Templates\CookieAuthTemplates\Exchange\HTML\logon_style.ccs
- When looking through the file you’ll see a section that has entries like #eb9c12 and #f9b133. These are the colors used by the logon button.
- You can change this by entering your own required color. You can find the color codes here
- To change the explanation text you must look for the entries #ff6c00
- You can change this by entering your own required color. You can find the color codes here
- Also it is possible to change the Internet Explorer tab name by starting the FBAeditor en change the OWAWindowTitle text box to your liking
- If required you can change the ISA html files as well they can be found here C:\Program Files\Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway\Templates\CookieAuthTemplates\ISA\HTML\
- If all went well you have a fancy FBA logon page like this :
- Note:
I found out that the Forefront TMG caches these pages somehow so I had to reboot the server to get the new pages active.-> Arturo pointed out that you only need to start the firewall service to reflect these changes.
