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Creating a 2nd OWA site kills the first - 500 Internal Error

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I have an Exchange 2007 server with SP2 sitting behing ISA 2006 and all is working fine. OWA is only using basic and windows authentication.
I need to create a 2nd owa website using just basic authentication. I have created the 2nd virtual directory through Power Shell (new-owavirtualdirectory -name owa2 -websitename 2ndsitename) with success and it shows in both Exchange console and IIS. However the first OWA dies with a 500 internal error. The only way to get the first OWA working again is to remove the 2nd OWA virtual directory in Power Shell.

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The first thing to check is the event logs.  Anything in application or system logs when the 500 error is generated?  Also, you can usually get additional details from a 500 error by disabling friendly HTTP error messages in IE.  Go to tool-->internet options--->advanced and clear the check box next to 'Show Friendly HTTP Error Messages.'  Restart your browser and hit the site again to see if you get a more detailed error message that will point you towards a resolution.
Whay you want to create second OWA site ? any specific reason ?
It is happening becuase for OWA only one vertual directory can be used and that is something you define in ESM.

ESM > ORG config > CAS > OWA > and then set the url..

What is the need ?
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We need one access to have Windows authentication and another access to be just basic authentication.
Microsoft states that multiple OWA sites can be used as long as none of them use forms based authentication, whihc we are not using as ISA does this for us.
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