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tp205

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This site has always helped me but alas I am what most people call a lurker, I can get away with just finding the answer but today I can't and I hope you can help me.
I am moving my exchange to a new box, but the box will stay up mostly it is our webserver, but here is my question there used to be a neat little line that when it goes to one exchange server it said wait that box is not here go here instead. I suppose my age is showing and that is only in 5.5 Just wondering if there is a trick.
 
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I think you're worried about redirecting OWA, right?

If so, you'll need to put a virtual directory up that includes a single asp page with a response.redirect.

 
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That's right, but isn't a neat little line like
\exchange redirect to \\servername\exchange?
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I'm not sure I understand the issue. Are you saying that you want people who go to automatically be directed to
If so, check out

How to make Outlook Web Access the default Web site

If you also want to redirect http to https, check out

How to redirect an HTTP connection to HTTPS for Outlook Web Access clients

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Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.
 
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even easier imho is to create a html file containing only these lines...

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=http://www.google.com">
</head>

that will redirect to Google.com on load. You can change that to
 
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Except that that method requires the client to redirect instead of just having the server handle it.

And that HTML is not valid, technically.

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Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.
 
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58sniper (MIS)
18 Aug 08 15:21
Except that that method requires the client to redirect instead of just having the server handle it.

And that HTML is not valid, technically."

You are correct. I should have said create a generic html file and add this line to the <head> tags...

Just giving him another example if he is not familiar with asp.
 
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