Question : Remote Web Workplace does not work outside the LAN

I am trying to access Remote Web Workplace from outside my company's network, and cannot do it properly.  If I enter https://[myrouter'spublicIP]/Remote, it goes to RWW (even from outside the network) but there is a certificate error of a mismatched address.  When I access https://remote.triton-ind.com/ from inside the LAN it works with no problems.  

I have read about how to set this up, but obviously, I am missing something.  I think the problem is either that the certificate is in the wrong location, or the website is still pointing to the internal forward lookup zone (triton.local) instead of the one I made (triton-ind.com).  Also when I look in IIS under MAINSERVER (local computer), I only see a FTP Sites subdirectory and not Sites, so I do not know where the sites shown in the Windows SBS Console are located.

Here is what I have done so far:
1.      Forwarded ports to my local DNS server (DC) running Windows SBS 2008 (TCP ports 25, 80, 987, 443, 1723 to 192.168.123.64)

2.      Created a primary forward lookup zone (that does not store it in the AD), named triton-ind.com, and created two Host (A) files.  One is named remote and pointing to 192.168.123.64 (my internal DNS) for the remote.triton-ind.com.  The other is named www and pointing to the public IP address of our externally hosted website (www.triton-ind.com).

Last note, everything is done in IE 7.  Thanks in advance, and let me know if you need screen shots or additional information.

Answer : Remote Web Workplace does not work outside the LAN

OK, you don't need to forward lookup zone, the ones you already have created by SBS will be sufficient.

As this is an external issue you need to create an A record in your EXTERNAL DNS service to point the A record remote.triton-ind.com to your routers public IP address.

I would also recommend a commercial SSL certificate in the form of a UCC/SAN certificate (http://www.godaddy.com/) with 5 domains in it.

remote.triton-ind.com
owa.triton-ind.com (your OWA URL, can be the remote one if you wish)
autodiscover.triton-ind.com
MAINSERVER.triton.local (the internal Fully Qualified Domain Name of your server.
MAINSERVER (NETBIOS name of your server)

There is a certificate wizard in the SBS console that will help you do this.
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