OWA pages damaged when switching to front-end server ?   

Hi,

 I have a very wierd problem on a couple of Exchange 2003 servers.....

Due to several reasons, the original setup is being replaced with a new 
back-end and front-end server.

The old setup was Win2003/Exch2003 as backend, and Win2000/Exch2003 as 
front-end

The new setup is based on Win2003/Exch2003.

Mailboxes have been moved from the old back-end to the new back-end - no 
problem there (the old OWA front-end can still access the mailboxes)...

The wierd part is the new front-end server ....

Installing it into the orginasation is no problem.. Connecting to OWA on it 
right after install also works perfect. Then I change the server to fron-end 
(server properties), and reboot the front-end server. When I connect to the 
front-end after the reboot, the OWA interface is not working properly, and I 
get a lot of errors/page not found, if I click on some of the links....

Any idea what is the problem ?

Regards,
/Brian ( bipsen [at] andebakken [dot] dk )

date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:58:37 +0200   author:   Brian Ipsen

Re: OWA pages damaged when switching to front-end server ?   

Hi,

The front-end server is not running with sp2 installed and the back-end
server with sp1, right??

If they are this is the problem:

" The current Exchange 2003 SP2 update does not include the SP1 OWA web
controls. Thus if you set up a new front end server and update it to
SP2 withouth installing SP1 first, it will not work with a SP1 back end
server. When trying to use the premium client, you'll get an ugly
screen that just has some broken buttons and a Loading... text.

The fix seems to be to simply copy over the controls from a machine
that ever had SP1 applied. The controls are in \Program
Files\Exchsrvr\exchweb\6.5.7226.0


Leif

"Brian Ipsen"  skrev i en meddelelse
news:uy7sM9w2FHA.3296@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>
> Hi,
>
>  I have a very wierd problem on a couple of Exchange 2003 servers.....
>
> Due to several reasons, the original setup is being replaced with a new
> back-end and front-end server.
>
> The old setup was Win2003/Exch2003 as backend, and Win2000/Exch2003 as
> front-end
>
> The new setup is based on Win2003/Exch2003.
>
> Mailboxes have been moved from the old back-end to the new back-end - no
> problem there (the old OWA front-end can still access the mailboxes)...
>
> The wierd part is the new front-end server ....
>
> Installing it into the orginasation is no problem.. Connecting to OWA on
it
> right after install also works perfect. Then I change the server to
fron-end
> (server properties), and reboot the front-end server. When I connect to
the
> front-end after the reboot, the OWA interface is not working properly, and
I
> get a lot of errors/page not found, if I click on some of the links....
>
> Any idea what is the problem ?
>
> Regards,
> /Brian ( bipsen [at] andebakken [dot] dk )
>
>
>

date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 21:15:19 +0200   author:   Leif Pedersen [MVP]

Re: OWA pages damaged when switching to front-end server ?   

"Leif Pedersen [MVP]"  wrote in message 
news:%23bmH0wL3FHA.2640@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

> The front-end server is not running with sp2 installed and the back-end
> server with sp1, right??
>
> If they are this is the problem:

I've tried several combinations...

Backend is running SP1
Front end has been tried with no SP, SP1 and SP2 - all 3 setup seem to 
behave the same way (that is why it is so confusing)...

> " The current Exchange 2003 SP2 update does not include the SP1 OWA web
> controls. Thus if you set up a new front end server and update it to
> SP2 withouth installing SP1 first, it will not work with a SP1 back end
> server. When trying to use the premium client, you'll get an ugly
> screen that just has some broken buttons and a Loading... text.
>
> The fix seems to be to simply copy over the controls from a machine
> that ever had SP1 applied. The controls are in \Program
> Files\Exchsrvr\exchweb\6.5.7226.0

Okay - copying the controls from a "working" server seemed to do the trick.. 
Thanks ;-)

/Brian

date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:46:39 +0100   author:   Brian Ipsen