Public folders and front-end servers for free/busy info in Entourage 2004

[Bob Bliss]

Hello,
I was wondering how folks handled the Entourage 2004 setting for Public
Folders Server on the Advanced tab. Our clients need this for their
free/busy information.

Our public folders are on a back-end server, so I have to enter a different
server than the front-end server and pay for another SSL certificate. I can
move/replicate the folders to my front-end server as suggested here:
http://www.rit.edu/~wwwits/services/desktop_support/mac/entourageserversprotocols.html
but I recall Microsoft not recommeding public folders on front-end servers
under Exchange 2000 because "there aren't any mailboxes on those servers"
anyway.

In addition, I actually have two front-end servers load-balanced through a
load-balancing appliance and so I'd have to replicate the folders between
both servers and my experience with public folder replication has not been
good, even with our relatively small public folder store. That's why I have
them on only one server now.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I can't find a definitive answer on
the web.

-Bob @ SMU

 

[Bob Bliss]

It looks like I don't have to worry about putting public folders on the
front-end servers or pointing the free/busy setting on the client directly
to the back-end server. Looks like the front-end servers just relay the
free/busy and public folders requests on to the back-end server with the
public folders just like it does with all the other DAV traffic.

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