How to Configure Additional Virtual Servers on a Back-End Server
Topic Last Modified: 2005-05-24
If you create additional virtual servers on your Exchange front-end servers, you must add similarly configured virtual servers to the back-end servers. This procedure describes how to configure additional virtual servers on a back-end server.
Before you perform the procedures in this topic, you must create the additional virtual servers on your front-end server. For more information about creating additional virtual servers on your front-end server, see Configuring Exchange Front-End Servers.
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Start Exchange System Manager: Click Start, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Exchange, and then click System Manager.
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In Exchange System Manager, expand Administrative Groups if administrative groups are enabled, expand Servers, and then expand the server where you want to configure the use of an e-mail address as the logon user name.
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Expand Protocols, right-click HTTP, click New, and then select HTTP Virtual Server.
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In the Properties dialog box, type a name for the virtual server. Give the virtual server a consistent name, such as "adatum.com (back-end)".
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Under Exchange Path, click Modify, select the appropriate domain from the list (adatum.com in this case), and then click OK.
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Click Advanced, and then add the appropriate host names (mail.adatum.com in this case). The address through which the client browser accesses the front-end server is forwarded by the front-end server to the back-end server, so the back-end server must be aware of every name a client might use to reach the front-end server (for example, http://mail, http://mail.adatum.com, and so on).
Note: On the back-end server, the TCP port must be 80. This is the only port used for HTTP communication between front-end and back-end servers, regardless of the port used by the client to communicate with the front-end server. You can leave the SSL port at the default setting.
