Hi, My Exchange 2003 organization has several backend servers on different sites and a connector server through which external mail is sent. This server has no mailboxes in its store but routes incoming mail to the appropriate backend server. When I use NETSTAT on this connector server I see that a lot of Outlook 2003 client have a connection to this server on port 1188. How is this possible, because client send mail through their own backend server and should have no need for a connection to this connector server. Best regards, Chiel Varkevisser Netherlands.
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:05:01 -0700, ChielV wrote: >Hi, > >My Exchange 2003 organization has several backend servers on different sites >and a connector server through which external mail is sent. This server has >no mailboxes in its store but routes incoming mail to the appropriate backend >server. > >When I use NETSTAT on this connector server I see that a lot of Outlook 2003 >client have a connection to this server on port 1188. How is this possible, >because client send mail through their own backend server and should have no >need for a connection to this connector server. > >Best regards, >Chiel Varkevisser >Netherlands. Could be anything but if you haven't configured this box as an FE (you should) you will see Outlook clients connecting to it for system folder (free/busy etc. etc.) connections. Make it an FE. Remove the PF store (leave the private store since you need to at for SMTP routing) and then give it a quick reboot to make sure everything knows that it's now an FE.
What are the risks involved when I do this action in my production environment? "Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote: > On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:05:01 -0700, ChielV > wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >My Exchange 2003 organization has several backend servers on different sites > >and a connector server through which external mail is sent. This server has > >no mailboxes in its store but routes incoming mail to the appropriate backend > >server. > > > >When I use NETSTAT on this connector server I see that a lot of Outlook 2003 > >client have a connection to this server on port 1188. How is this possible, > >because client send mail through their own backend server and should have no > >need for a connection to this connector server. > > > >Best regards, > >Chiel Varkevisser > >Netherlands. > > Could be anything but if you haven't configured this box as an FE (you > should) you will see Outlook clients connecting to it for system > folder (free/busy etc. etc.) connections. > Make it an FE. Remove the PF store (leave the private store since you > need to at for SMTP routing) and then give it a quick reboot to make > sure everything knows that it's now an FE. >
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:18:04 -0700, ChielV wrote: >What are the risks involved when I do this action in my production >environment? > Dunno. I'm not on your change control board. I don't know what you've accidentally replicated to the bridgehead server and I don't know why the person who designed your Exchange environment either a) didn't do the job right and have the bridgehead made an FE, b) the implementation people didn't do their job right and make it an FE in accordance with a good design or c) someone was doing something with that server that required a PF to be mounted.
