Re: Changing the address for RWW and OWA

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From: Javier Gomez [SBS MVP] (javier_gomez_at_remove.this.engineer.com)
Date: 02/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:28:09 -0500

Hey Attilla... since you are using DynDNS.org simply set "My WebHop"... you
can create a hostname (i.e. http:\\webmail.yourdomain.com) that redirects to
https:\\remote.yourdomain.com\exchange (or whatever combination you like). 

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Javier [SBS MVP]
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"Steve Foster [SBS MVP]" <steve.foster@picamar.co.uk> wrote in message
news:xn0df3wvlbk69y003@msnews.microsoft.com...
> Attila Csokai wrote:
>
> > I would like to use https://exchange.mydomain.com instead of
> > http://mydomain.com/exchange to access my email
> > Also, I would prefer to use http://remote.mydomain.com to access my
> > RWW instead of the https://mydomain.com/remote.
> >
> > Could someone tell me how I could make this change?
>
> The RWW is SSL for security reasons. I wouldn't try to make it non-SSL
> if I were you.
>
> Assuming you're happy to keep it SSL, you need a second public IP on
> your server, then you need to configure entries in your DNS servers of
> record for mydomain.com to add exchange and remote as either host or
> alias records pointing to your public IPs (one for each).
>
> Next, you must bind the additional public IP to your external nic,
> along with the original public IP.
>
> Finally, you must reconfigure the RWW site to accept connections for
> remote.mydomain.com, and create a new web site for OWA which is bound
> to exchange.mydomain.com.
>
> Those are the outline steps. The most complicated part, I think, is the
> putting OWA on its' own site, and I believe Mariette has documented
> this on www.smallbizserver.net.
>
> -- 
> Steve Foster [SBS MVP]
> ---------------------------------------
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