Re: How Does OWA Communicate With Exchange?

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At the moment I am evaluating whether it is worth reinstalling everything
onto the server. Am I right in thinking that installing OWA on the Exchange
server that is also the BDC is a bad Idea?

I'm installing outlook as I type. I'll follow up with that.
--
-- Lindsay Prince


"Lee Derbyshire [MVP]" wrote:

> "Labuiacs" <Lindsay.Prince@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:BC843EE5-00C7-4699-85B9-902E9D07B287@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > It was a rebuild, and yes all service packs were reinstalled
> including
> > exchange.
> >
> > as stated in KB article 175024 "Resetting Domain Member Secure
> Channel"
> > "For each member(of a domain), there is a discrete communication
> channel
> > (that is, the secure channel) with a domain controller. The secure
> channel is
> > used by the Netogon service on the member and on the domain
> controller to
> > communicate"
> > The exchange server is a domain controller, the BDC.
> >
> > So, perhaps I will have to do another rebuild?
>
> It was reinstalled from scratch? If so, then a rebuild shouldn't make
> any difference, since in theory, everything will be the same the next
> time round. If was a repair install, then maybe a reinstall from
> scratch would help. It depends what else is on the server, and how
> much work is involved, I suppose.
>
> Actually, since OWA 5.5 works very similarly to Outlook, it might be
> worth installing Outlook on the server (don't select the Full install
> option - that will upset CDO.DLL), and seeing if that will connect.
> You may at least get a better error message. If Outlook can connect,
> then we should be able to get OWA to, too. OWA error messages aren't
> particularly informative.
>
>
>
.

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