Thanks for the reply... I actually confirmed just that last night in the lab. I brought up a separate native mode environment with an OWA 5.5 server.. New users were not able to access their mailboxes, while users created before the switch continued to work....
Thanks again.... > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 3:13 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: OWA 5.5 - Active Directory > > > If you mean native mode Exchange, then yes, OWA 5.5 will > break. It will > still work for user IDs that were created BEFORE you went native, but > will not work for users created AFTER you go native. I think the ADC > might be involved in this equation somehow, but I remember > this problem > bit us hard. > > OWA 5.5 needs some attributes set in AD which no longer get set after > you go native (or was it after you stop ADC - can't remember). > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fyodorov, > Andrey > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 3:56 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: OWA 5.5 - Active Directory > > > When you go native, what are you going to need 5.5 OWA for? > > Besides, you can dumb down 2000 OWA to make it feel like 5.5 > OWA (that's > what Netscape browsers see when they connect to 2000 OWA) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Miller, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 3:50 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: OWA 5.5 - Active Directory > > All, > > We just finished migrating all of our Exchange 5.5 servers to Exchange > 2000, and are still in mixed mode. I have my 3 original OWA > 5.5 servers > online, pointing to an Active Directory servers for lookups. > I also have > 3 Exchange 2000 Front End servers online serving up OWA 2000. And to > clarify, I have a requirement to keep both versions of OWA running for > an extended period of time. The current configuration works > quite well. > I would like to begin the steps of going to native mode. My > question is > - when I flip the switch to native mode is there any chance > that the 5.5 > OWA functionality will break? I spoke with Microsoft > regarding this and > the final conclusion was that they had no idea... I am in the > process of > building up a native mode environment in the lab to test this, but > figured I would throw it out to the list in hopes that > someone else has > already tried this.... > > TIA > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t ext_mode=& lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=& lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=& lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[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.

