We've seen something like this (an old IP sticking around) when changing 
addresses with IIS before.  A couple of places I can think to check on the 
server that had the previous IP-

IIS Admin, properties of the website, web site tab.  Make sure the IP address 
has not been assigned directly to the old IP at some point.  Click the 
"advanced" button to confirm it does not show up.

Control Panel, Network, properties of the NIC, TCPIP properties, advanced, IP 
Settings tab.  Make sure the second IP does not still show up here, and remove 
it if it does.

-Bonnie

From: E. Peeters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 1:43 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Strange OWA redirection

I have, and I didn't find either. What has me puzzled is that a "mere" Refresh 
solves this issue every time.

________________________________
From: May, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 3:15 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Strange OWA redirection
Have you checked for DNS issues or hard coded IP on the default web site for 
your OWA FE server????

Jeff A. May, Blackberry Certified SA
Client Server Engineer III
Client Server Engineering/IT Messaging Services
Mail Code  -  100-99-08-20
E-Mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

From: E. Peeters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 4:10 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Strange OWA redirection

Hello people,

My problem is with Exchange 2003 on Windows 2003.

Whenever someone attempts to access my OWA for the first time (per session), 
the connection is being redirected to an internal (non-routable) IP. Hitting 
Refresh on the browser opens OWA correctly, and the problem does not occur 
again until the user begins a new session (logs off or reboots their PC).

The IP is the internal IP that the Exchange box was assigned in an earlier 
deployment, prior to OWA being made available. The Exchange box has a new IP 
and everything seems to be functioning normally, except for this OWA issue.

On the first attempt to connect to OWA, the user is prompted to authenticate 
and after succesfully doing so, both OWA frames are loaded but their respective 
content isn't displayed. Rather, the generic "web page could not be found" is 
shown. Looking at what each frame does, they are both attempting to load their 
respective page, but they use the old internal IP for Exchange rather than the 
FQDN.

If the user hits Refresh, the content of each frame is loaded using the FQDN 
and OWA will function as expected right up until the user logs off or reboots 
their PC. Afterwards, the first attempt to use OWA will again fail, etc...

I have combed the registry to see if I could find any entry that would somehow 
point to the old Exchange's internal IP, to no avail.

This issue started when one box was performing all Exchange functions. I now 
have front-end and back-end boxes, but the problem hasn't changed.

Any suggestion ?

Eric










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