OWA and trusted (or not) domains 1

[sparkyputerguy]

Got a complicated question for you Exchange gurus out there:

I am with a small project in a big company. We're moving to Exchange pretty soon (leaving Lotus Notes) and we're figuring out how everything will talk to one another.

Our Exchange server will be located in our office and will trust the user accounts on our local domain (not part of corporate). No trusts exist between our local domain and Corporate. Our firewall will permit x.400 communication between the corporate Exchange servers and ours.

Our corporate intranet has a link for OWA. If we use that link, will the corporate servers access our server over x.400, or will we have to hit our server directly for OWA? Security is a big concern, thus the reason that we're not directly part of the corporate domain structure.

Thanks for any advice you may have, and have a great holiday!

 

[pbxman]

You will need to house your own OWA and accounts locally instead of using corporate. If there are no trusts established, it will function like 2 seperate companies entirely.

Other steps can be done by your webmasters, such as when you click on the corporate OWA link, it can check IP address/subnet information and route to the correct server that way. Pretty slick Otherwise - your operation will be completely seperate. If you want to be able to do this - Exchange 2000 uses IIS exclusively, which would make things much easier in that respect.

There's a lot of "depends on.." "yes, but..." "maybe if's.." involved, so i wont say it cannot be done at all. However, the way you describe it - the local server and corporate server wont even know each other exists. pbxman
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[sparkyputerguy]

Thanks! I figured it would probably have to be that way... There's always the option of RASing into our local network as well.

I shot an email to the corporate folks as well to see what their take on it would be, but I appreciate the outside opinion. If they come up with some really nifty solution, I'll keep you posted.