Bharat Suneja
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Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:58 am Post subject:
Re: Exchange 2003 and OWA on 2 servers remote to each other |
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Bharat Suneja
MCSE, MCT
www.zenprise.com
blog: www.suneja.com/blog
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"moverby" <moverby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B6EF5162-7064-422A-AC35-568BED97E69F@microsoft.com...
| Quote: | We have 2 servers at different locations both running Windows Server 2003
and
Exchange 2003 sp1. One server is in Texas the other in Arizona and each
location is connected via a VPN network through different ISP's.
The master server in Texas will allow OWA to work. The member server in
Arizona will not.
**what do you mean "member server in AZ will not"? Did you mean OWA does not |
work outside the firewall or doesn't work at all? What happens when you go
to http://AZ-Server/exchange internally?
**You may need to open the necessary ports on AZ fw to allow http/https, and
perhaps insert an A record for AZ server in external/public DNS so you can
access it by name.
| Quote: | The ISP for Texas has the MX record for our domain.
Outbound Internet mail does not work on the Arizona server so we have
created under system manager, routing group, an SMTP connector. This
allows
all internet e-mail from Arizona to route through Texas.
How can I make the OWA work in Arizona and do away with the SMTP
connector?
**SMTP connector is for outbound mail. |
**Assuming both servers are in same Exchange Org and different Routing
Groups
**Remove SMTP Connector, add Routing Group Connector to connect to TX
routing group
**Create SMTP Connector with address space * and scope: AZ Routing Group,
select AZ SMTP virtual server as bridgehead, deliver using DNS lookup
**Make sure AZ server has outbound SMTP connectivity and can resolve
internet domain/host names (DNS)
**For inbound email, if you're using the same SMTP domain as TX (most
likely), you can let TX continue receiving with the higher priority (lower
numeric value) MX record.
**If you want, you can add MX record pointing to A record of AZ server in
your external DNS, give it a lower priority (higher numeric value). If TX
ISP/Server has an outage, inbound mail will be routed through AZ and
delivered to local recipients. Mail for TX recipients will queue up and get
delivered over the Routing Group Connector when TX comes back up. |
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