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Exchange 2010 - 2013 Co-existence

Hi Experts,

I have recently installed Exchange 2013 into an Exchange 2010 environment using the Microsoft Exch Deployment 'guide'

Everything has gone successfully and the servers can see each other, I have also successfully done a pilot migration of one user to the Exchange 2013 server.

Setup as follow for reference.

Exch 2010 internal address - mailserver.domain.co.za
Exch 2010 external address - exchange.domain.co.za

Exch 2013 internal address - exchange.domain.co.za
Exch 2013 external address - exchange.domain.co.za

3rd Party SSL cert SAN - exchange.domain.co.za

My question is, how the hell do you get the servers to work together properly?

The mail flow is fine, mail is flowing in and out through the 2010 server, but things like Outlook anywhere, Mobile devices, owa ect aren't redirecting the mailboxes.

My 'remote' address is exchange.domain.co.za and that is currently pointing to the Exchange 2010 server, but when I try connect a user on the exchange 2013 server to exchange.domian.co.za (for mobile setup, owa and outlook anywhere) it says the mailbox is unavailable or doesnt exist (becuase from what I can see the exchange 2010 isnt forwarding the request to the 2013 server)

I remember during 2003 -2010 migrations, this used to work well.

What do I need to do to get the co-existence to work using 1 FQDN exchange.domain.co.za

Basically, I want all requests to hit the Exchange 2010 server, and then if it realises the mailbox is on the exchange 2013 server, do the relevent redirects.

Thank you
Daniel
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I am in the same boat, if the OWA points to the new server and the mailbox is on the old server, it won't work.

If you haven't done your migration yet, you should keep port 443 to the old mailserver.
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Yes, all my ports are forwarded to the old server still, because 99% of the people are still on there, but I don't want to move people off because then only users on 1 server will be able to work remotely, just doesn't make sense to me ?

I want exchange to work whether you are on the old server or the new server, using the same SAN name :-/
The issue is there is no way I know to redirect requests to exchange 2013.
You need two different URLs, with two different IP addresses. You cannot use a single host name for everything.

Therefore the usual method is to have all traffic go to Exchange 2013, then configure a legacy host name for Exchange 2010. Exchange will then redirect the client to the other server if required. Currently at the moment you are creating a loop - the client is told to connect to the same URL that is already connected to.

Simon.
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I fixed the issue myself