Re: Firewall Ports Keep Changing for Exchange
From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 08/07/05
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Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 11:11:03 -0400
In news:79A0C1AF-DA73-406C-A9CA-6224F6D09A6A@microsoft.com,
Lynnette <Lynnette@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
> Hello -
>
> We have an Exchange 2003 Server running on a GSX Virtual Server.
> Each night the virtual server is stopped for backup and restarted.
> When the users come in each morning, their Outlook desktop client is
> found to be blocked by the firewall on the Exchange Server. It seems
> we're having to open a different 1400 port each time and afterwards
> their Outlook desktop clients can connect. We're using Windows Server
> 2003's firewall. The store.exe seems to be the process that is using
> the 1400 ports. It is a privileged application on the firewall. Any
> ideas as to how the firewall/client might be reconfigured so the
> needed ports are opened and we do not have to open new ports all the
> time? Can store.exe, or the Outlook desktop client, be forced to use
> a specified port?
>
> Thanks,
> Lynnette
OT, but you should be doing online backups of Exchange, which do not require
stopping services or dismounting stores. Also, I don't know that I'd want to
run my production Exchange server in a virtual server, but that's just
me....what is it that makes you need to restart the virtual server anyway?
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