Exchange 2007 OWA "Default" directory?

[Aaron]

We're planning a migration from Exchange 2003 to 2007. We use Outlook
Web Access extensively and have it set up so that if you go to
https://server.domain.com it goes straight to your inbox. This was
accomplished by setting \\.\BackOfficeStorage\domain.com\MBX as the
Home Directory for the OWA website (not the virtual directory, the
website itself) in IIS. Note that we don't use a front end server.

I've installed exchange 2007 in a virtual test environment that is
configured like our production one. I noticed that the Exchange
virtual directories (/owa, /exchange, etc) were installed in the
Default Web Site which still contains the default home directory of c:
\inetpub\wwwroot. Obviously, then, if you go to just the machine name
you get the "Under Construction" page. I tried configuring IIS on
the Exchange 2007 the same as the 2003 server (using the
BackOfficeStorage path, but that results in a 404 error. Will this
configuration work with 2007 and I'm just missing a config somewhere
or does it simply not work anymore? I have to imagine it DOES work as
the /exchange virtual directory uses that same path for it's home
directory.

I'm mostly trying to make as smooth a transition from 2003 OWA to 2007
OWA. If someone who's mailbox has been moved to 2007 logs in to the
2003 OWA, they get redirected to the 2007 server, but without the /owa
directory so they get the "Under Construction" page. I suppose I
could put a page there with a redirect to https://server.domain.com/owa
but that seems kind of kludgey.

[Bharat Suneja [MSFT]]

How to Simplify the Outlook Web Access URL
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998359(EXCHG.80).aspx

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"Aaron" <Aaron...@kzoo.edu> wrote in message
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[Aaron]

Wow. That was easy. :) Thanks!

On Sep 17, 2:38 pm, "Bharat Suneja [MSFT]"
<bsun...@online.microsoft.com> wrote:
> How to Simplify the Outlook Web Access URLhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998359(EXCHG.80).aspx