The real reason for an OWA FE is to "hide" the mailbox servers from the internet. If you don't have a FE server, you will have to allow access to all your mailbox servers from the internet and have the mailbox servers names in public DNS.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boyd, Nathan Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 6:22 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: FE BE with ISA, do we need the FE? We are migrating a single site Exchange 5.5 to 2003 in co-existence, with an already established Native AD. Our original design was to have ISA installed in the DMZ, behind a firewall, secure publishing OWA and configured to a 2003 internal FE OWA server, that would also replace the old Exchange 5.5 Internet Message Connection. Since then we have had to use our ISA server internally to replace an old Proxy server. Therefore I would be interested if you guys think it is still worth configuring a FE server in this scenario. The benefits as I see them are: Future Scalability, we could move the ISA box back to the DMZ (if we purchase BlueCoat) Single Namespace, if we move ISA to DMZ and for ISA to publish from, The FE box can provide the Internet Mail Flow to our Mail Gateway, thus freeing performance for the Exchange DBs. Thanks, Nathan _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
