One step further :) There was an old DR test account that was on another backend not in the site causing the re-direct. Removed that and connect to the right mailbox and we are looking good. I am hitting on other problem and that is with the firewall settings on the hub/client server. I believe that it's causing our problems with the Mail submission and it erroring out when trying to send mail from the mailbox server. Actually I know since I turned off the firewall and the messages came through.
I have the following ports open http port 80 https port 443 tcp port 3380 smtp port 25 I'm missing some other ports I believe. Event Type: Warning Event Source: MSExchangeMailSubmission Event Category: MSExchangeMailSubmission Event ID: 1009 Date: 9/22/2009 Time: 2:03:48 PM User: N/A Computer: UCDREMW1 Description: The Microsoft Exchange Mail Submission Service is currently unable to contact any Hub Transport servers in the local Active Directory site. The servers may be too busy to accept new connections at this time. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. From: Alex Fontana [mailto:afontana...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:50 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: DR site and OWA access See the link below to understand cas proxying and redirection. It sounds like there is either some AD site misconfiguration, i.e. the mailbox you are trying to log into may appear to be in the prod site. What do you see when you run a get-exchangeserver under "Site" are the DR boxes in a different site than prod? http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/09/04/446918.aspx -alex On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Pfefferkorn, Pete (pfeffepe) <pfeff...@ucmail.uc.edu<mailto:pfeff...@ucmail.uc.edu>> wrote: We have a DR site created and we have built a CAS/Hub server and a mailbox server. The two servers are in another site so they are off-site. I created a mailbox on that mailbox server and connected to the Hub server in that site via OWA. When I get in, I get the message: Use the following link to open this mailbox with optimal performance It then re-directs me to our CAS in our primary site. In a DR situation, those CAS would be down so I don't think we want it re-directing. I must be missing some setting so that it doesn't re-direct users from that site.
