Exchange 2003, Two servers, Two Instances of OWA

Good evening. I recently upgraded our environment from Exchange 5.5 SP4 to
Exchange 2003 SP2 on all new hardware. We have two offices each with their
own mailserver but part of the same Exchange group and AD domain (private
domain.internal). The two offices are connected via a VPN. Each server is
configured with an Internet mail connector and they backup each other up for
incoming Internet mail should one server be down (or its Internet connection)

The problem: With Exchange 5.5, I was able to log into OWA using the
external DNS name for one server to access mailboxes on either server
(mail.domain.com/exchange could access mailboxes on mail.domain.com and
mail2.domain.com and vis versa). However, with Exchange 2003, I am only able
to access mailboxes on the server I log into via OWA (using
mail.domain.com/exchange I can only access mailboxes on mail.domain.com and
using mail2.domain.com/exchange I can only access mailboxes on
mail2.domain.com)

Am I missing something or is do I have something misconfigured? Any help
would be greatly appreciated.

Bharat
Tue Jan 17 01:57:40 CST 2006

You can get that functionality with Exchange 2000/2003 by installing a
Front-End server.
Without a FE, Exchange ("back-end") servers that don't have a particular
mailbox will lookup AD and re-direct user to the server that the mailbox
resides on.
--
Bharat Suneja
MCSE, MCT
www.zenprise.com
blog: www.suneja.com/blog
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"Garetjax" <Garetjax@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0B658CCF-662B-4191-A5B4-3F27F6F11532@microsoft.com...
> Good evening. I recently upgraded our environment from Exchange 5.5 SP4
> to
> Exchange 2003 SP2 on all new hardware. We have two offices each with
> their
> own mailserver but part of the same Exchange group and AD domain (private
> domain.internal). The two offices are connected via a VPN. Each server
> is
> configured with an Internet mail connector and they backup each other up
> for
> incoming Internet mail should one server be down (or its Internet
> connection)
>
> The problem: With Exchange 5.5, I was able to log into OWA using the
> external DNS name for one server to access mailboxes on either server
> (mail.domain.com/exchange could access mailboxes on mail.domain.com and
> mail2.domain.com and vis versa). However, with Exchange 2003, I am only
> able
> to access mailboxes on the server I log into via OWA (using
> mail.domain.com/exchange I can only access mailboxes on mail.domain.com
> and
> using mail2.domain.com/exchange I can only access mailboxes on
> mail2.domain.com)
>
> Am I missing something or is do I have something misconfigured? Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.