Re: FE/BE migration help !

Thanks Nuevo...

I appear to have that fixed.. was a versioning issue (SP2 vs no SP on the
new cluster VS)

So..that is all fixed.. OWA now works fine on the cluster albeit without
SSL....

I see that if I try to login via OWA/FBA to the original Exchange server..
it seems to know to redirect me to the exchange server that has the mailbox
(new cluster) .. but that fails due to the new box not having SSL installed..
IOW its redirects with https instead of http...

This is cool... so far.. but I would prefer not to have to buy a cert for
the new cluster as it will eventually be a BE server etc...

Whats next ???

"Nuevo" wrote:

The first thing you need to fix is OWA on the cluster. It should be working
out of the box just like a stand alone server. Don't proceed forward until
this is resolved.

Are you getting any errors in the event logs? Have you tried to recreate the
HTTP VS cluster resource? Does OWA work if you failover to the passive node?

Nue
"WayCoolKennel" <WayCoolKennel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,

Need a bit of direction if possible. I have a single server Exchange Admin
group.. running Exchange Ent 2003 sp2 on Win 2003 sp1 ...

This single server is configured with SSL, FBA, ActiveSync(push) etc...

What I would like to do is move all the mailboxes etc.. to a new Exchange
cluster I have setup and make the current server a Front End server ..
since
all the clients and OWA users are already pointed to it.

My question is what is the best migration path to do this... The mailbox
part is obviously not difficult since I have already tested moving
mailboxes
to the new cluster and Outlook finds the new mailbox location no problem
albeit needing to restart outlook.

The big issue is that the moved mailboxes are then BROKEN via OWA and
Activesync... the new cluster is not running SSL on OWA.. and as a
general
rule OWA seems to be broken on the cluster all together..

I do have an HTTP virt server in as a cluster resource etc... but if I
try
to connect via web browser it asks for credentials then fails with 500
internal server error...

Anyway.. I cannot seem to find a document that describes this process at
all... the important thing is that I need VERY VERY litttle downtime.....

Anyone know of a document/white paper that describes this ? Or any
suggestions?



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