Help with OWA Install Please...

[smurfer]

We recently installed Exch 2000 and from inside can access outlook mailboxes and owa with no problems. We are now trying to setup a second exch server outside firewall to allow our users to access mail remotely without a vpn. We installed a 2nd exch server on a machine in the dmz, however we can not seem to get the OWA piece of this machine up and running. We can not hit the site from outside now, we believe we have all ports necessary open, and are not sure where the problem lies.

Any help would be greatly apprecaited...
Thanks,
SM

 

[Xybertron]

Does OWA work locally on this server?

Is SP2 applied? We removed the need for RPC in SP2 and it only needs LDAP now. Is it a Front-End server? Dan
Microsoft Exchange Support @ Microsoft

 

[smurfer]

Dan,
Thank you for your response, we actually got it to work shortly after my post. We were setting up a front end server however we installed exchange after being in the DMZ, not before. So an un-install, move back behind firewall, exchange install, move back out corrected the problem. Thanks for the assistance though.

 

[cowboy00242]

I am really curious as to why that worked. I am facing a similar battle right now. I am able to load Exchange easily on the machine in the DMZ (with what I assume are all the porst necessary), and even applied SP2 to Exchange. Is building it in the same network and then moving it the answer? Why?

 

[Xybertron]

Less ports needed if it is built inside. Then we just need LDAP and DNS once we move it. Is it necessary? No...

Could it help? Yes... Would I recommend? Depends who does the firewall work. Dan
Microsoft Exchange Support @ Microsoft