Re: Front-end acting as proxy to 2 backend servers

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Outlook MAPI users will be redirected properly with or without a front-end
server. You would want a front-end server (or several), however, unless you
want to publish host names and IP addresses of all back-end servers to the
Internet DNS, which is generally regarded as a bad practice.

I am not aware of any reason you need to upgrade front-end servers to
support mailbox moves.

As to an Exchange 2003 front-end server, you will need to upgrade all your
front-end servers to Exchange 2003 before you can install any other Exchange
2003 servers. If I were you, I would pursue upgrading your Exchange 2000
front-end servers to Exchange 2003 rather than installing new Exchange 2003
front-end servers.
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Ed Crowley
MVP - Exchange
"Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!"

"KidIT" <tasso.antoniadis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1153936537.653489.306250@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks Mark,

However, I read somewhere that while migrating from E2K et E2K3 the
best scenario would be to have a FE handle the messages in order to
have user redirected to the correct server. Besides Outlook how about
OWA?


Mark Arnold [MVP] wrote:
On 26 Jul 2006 10:17:57 -0700, "KidIT" <tasso.antoniadis@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi,

I have 1 exchange 2k BE and one exchange 2k3 BE server. I want to add a
3rd exchange 2k3 as a front end server in order to migrate the
mailboxes from e2k BE to e2k3 BE.

I don't want to have users change any settings in their Outlook
Profiles, do I have to use my FE as a bridgehead server or can I just
click on "this is a front end server" and during the moving of
mailboxes Outlook will automatically find the server the user's mailbox
is sitting in?

THANKS.

Even moving the mailboxes internally wouldn't need an FE, in fact,
they wouldn't even use it.
If you're talking about users on the Internet you'd have to jig around
internally with firewall settings to point users at the actual FE
rather than the BE but in no case would you need to touch the clients.



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