We have a two node Exchange 2K3 SP2 Cluster running on W2K3 SP1 that has a public folder store; when we attempt to manage the Public Folders in Exchange System Manager we get the following error "ID No: 80040e19". The IP address of the two nodes in the cluster are .7 and .127, the Exchange Cluster Virtual Server IP is .163 and the MS Cluster IP is .162. Our IIS Config has three web sites configured; the default site using all unassigned IP address, the Exchange Vitual Server site using a .163 address and a third site for OWA access using the .163 and a host header. Currently to manage the public folders we have to change the IP address of the Exchange Virtual Server site to .7 (which is the actual 1st IP Address configured on the NIC (listed via IP CONFIG and also listed as the first IP address using the down arrow on IP Address in IIS Web Site Properties Dialog box. This IP address is the address of the A Node in the cluster as well), which also knocks out OWA access. Having read the MS KB on this problem, the problem seems related to the fact that we aren't using the first IP Address assigned to the NIC for the Exchange Virtual Server Web Site so the required connection can't be made. I don't want to change the IP Address for the WEb Site to us unassigned IP address's as the /163 address is the one that it needs to use. The only option i can think of to resolve this is to use a host header that's identical to the Exchange Virtual Server name to direct the request to the right IIS Web Site but wasn't sure if this was correct. As it's a 24x7 envrionment I thought I'd check to see if anyone had any info on whether this ill work or if there's a better way of doing it. Thanks G
