FAQs / Exchange 2000 / Migration & Interoperability

01

No. The enhanced OWA is built directly into the store technology and only a mailbox residing on an Exchange 2000 server can be accessed using the enhanced OWA interface. Nice try, though.

Last Updated by Simpler-Webb on 8/7/2003 1:59:40 PM (QID #1153)
Categories: Exchange 2000/Migration & Interoperability |

02

Yes.

Last Updated by Simpler-Webb on 8/7/2003 1:59:40 PM (QID #1154)
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03

First, you need to use the Exchange 5.5 Admin program to delete the directory replication connectors (Org | Site | Configuration | Connections). Once you have deleted the connections, you need to be logged on with an account with Schema Admin privileges to delete the ADC connector.

Last Updated by Simpler-Webb on 8/7/2003 1:59:40 PM (QID #1155)
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04

There is no hard and fast rule in this regard. Some potential guidelines include:

1. At least 1 per routing group
2. One for every 4 Exchange servers in a routing group
3. One (or more) for each physical location

Last Updated by Simpler-Webb on 8/7/2003 1:59:40 PM (QID #1156)
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05

After converting from Exchange 5.5 OWA to 2000 OWA, all the users had book marked the URL of mail.company.com/exchange/logon.asp, since in 5.5 OWA it automatically would pull the user from the root URL into a logon page (since it used ASP) but now the user only sees the same base URL of mail.company.com/exchange. So once the users used the book mark or in some cases the "autocomplete" feature in IE they would be pulled to a dead address. But... since you can't really edit the M:\ drive the /EXCHANGE points to you couldn't build a ASP page to do a response.redirect in ASP.

• Go into the front-end server that is hosting your OWA.
• Start up IIS admin and locate the /Exchange virtual directory
• Right click on the /Exchange directory and using the "wizard" create a new virtual directory called logon.asp. When it prompts where the content is located just put something like c:\inetpub\wwwroot
• Once the virtual root has been created, right click it, select properties then select the tab labeled "Virtual Directory"
• Select the "A redirection to a URL" and then in the "Redirect to" URL enter /exchange/

What happens is when the user hits the virtual root of /exchange/logon.asp it pulls the user back to only /exchange

Last Updated by Simpler-Webb on 8/7/2003 1:59:40 PM (QID #1157)
Categories: Exchange 2000/Migration & Interoperability |