Outlook Web Access to entire Organization

I have an organization with 5 locations. Each location has an Exchange 2003
Server.

All e-mail flows into the Exchange server at the main location, which then
routes the e-mail to the appropriate server.

My question is: I'd like to implement OWA, but never have in multiple
Exchange Server organizations. My question is:

I'd like to create an A record for mail.company.com and have give EVERY user
in the organization the ability to use OWA. I was planning on using the
server in the main location. Despite the fact that users' mailboxes are
physically stored in 5 different servers, can I use the main server for OWA
for ALL users?

If no, can you provide some direction?

Thanks!
PM

Tushar
Mon Jun 30 06:59:20 CDT 2008

On Jun 30, 3:38=A0am, PM <P...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I have an organization with 5 locations. =A0Each location has an Exchange =
2003
> Server.
>
> All e-mail flows into the Exchange server at the main location, which then=

> routes the e-mail to the appropriate server.
>
> My question is: =A0I'd like to implement OWA, but never have in multiple
> Exchange Server organizations. =A0My question is:
>
> I'd like to create an A record for mail.company.com and have give EVERY us=
er
> in the organization the ability to use OWA. =A0I was planning on using the=

> server in the main location. =A0Despite the fact that users' mailboxes are=

> physically stored in 5 different servers, can I use the main server for OW=
A
> for ALL users?
>
> If no, can you provide some direction?
>
> Thanks!
> PM

You can definitely have one server in the main location as Front-End
Server and have it receive all the communications being received on
port 80 / 443.

Leif
Mon Jun 30 10:24:50 CDT 2008

Hi,

In addition to the other answer.

This front-end server (can be exchange 2003 standard edition) can't host any
user mailboxes so you must install a new server to host this role.

Leif

"Tushar Shah" <email.tushar@gmail.com> skrev i meddelelsen
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On Jun 30, 3:38 am, PM <P...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I have an organization with 5 locations. Each location has an Exchange
> 2003
> Server.
>
> All e-mail flows into the Exchange server at the main location, which then
> routes the e-mail to the appropriate server.
>
> My question is: I'd like to implement OWA, but never have in multiple
> Exchange Server organizations. My question is:
>
> I'd like to create an A record for mail.company.com and have give EVERY
> user
> in the organization the ability to use OWA. I was planning on using the
> server in the main location. Despite the fact that users' mailboxes are
> physically stored in 5 different servers, can I use the main server for
> OWA
> for ALL users?
>
> If no, can you provide some direction?
>
> Thanks!
> PM

You can definitely have one server in the main location as Front-End
Server and have it receive all the communications being received on
port 80 / 443.

Ed
Mon Jun 30 16:58:04 CDT 2008

The problem you'll have in using a mailbox server in this fashion is that
when a user connects to it but his mailbox is on another server, the HTTP
session will redirect to the correct server. That means that you need to
expose all five servers to the Internet and you'll need consistent server
naming and addressing so that the hand-off is transparent to the client.
What you need is a separate front-end server. A front-end server keeps the
HTTP session itself and proxies the traffic to the appropriate back-end
server so you need only expose the front-end server to the Internet. As
Leif pointed out, a front-end server can't host mailboxes, but you wouldn't
want it to.
--
Ed Crowley
MVP - Exchange
"Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!"

"PM" <PM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have an organization with 5 locations. Each location has an Exchange
>2003
> Server.
>
> All e-mail flows into the Exchange server at the main location, which then
> routes the e-mail to the appropriate server.
>
> My question is: I'd like to implement OWA, but never have in multiple
> Exchange Server organizations. My question is:
>
> I'd like to create an A record for mail.company.com and have give EVERY
> user
> in the organization the ability to use OWA. I was planning on using the
> server in the main location. Despite the fact that users' mailboxes are
> physically stored in 5 different servers, can I use the main server for
> OWA
> for ALL users?
>
> If no, can you provide some direction?
>
> Thanks!
> PM