Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 SP3, Exchange Server 2010 SP2

Topic Last Modified: 2011-05-18

When you deploy the Outlook Anywhere feature (formerly known as RPC over HTTP) on a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Client Access server that will provide access to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 or Exchange Server 2003, you must disable Outlook Anywhere for the earlier versions. You need to do this because Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 can’t provide access to a mailbox that’s hosted on an Exchange 2010 server.

After you enable Outlook Anywhere on Exchange 2010 and disable Outlook Anywhere on Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007, you should make sure that users who have mailboxes on computers running Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 can access their mailboxes through Exchange 2010. To do this, create a test mailbox on each computer running Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007. Then, perform an Outlook Anywhere (RPC over HTTP) connectivity test on each test mailbox by using Microsoft Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer. For more information about testing Outlook Anywhere, see Test Outlook Anywhere Connectivity.

Looking for other management tasks related to Exchange 2010 Outlook Anywhere? Check out Managing Outlook Anywhere.

Looking for other tasks related to upgrading client access from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010? Check out Upgrade from Exchange 2003 Client Access.

Looking for other tasks related to upgrading client access from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010? Check out Upgrade from Exchange 2007 Client Access.

Configure Outlook Anywhere for Exchange Server 2003

You can configure Outlook Anywhere for the original release version of Exchange 2003 and for Exchange 2003 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) or SP2 by following the configuration steps for RPC over HTTP for these versions of Microsoft Exchange. For detailed steps, see How to Configure Outlook Anywhere with Exchange 2003.

Configure Outlook Anywhere for Exchange Server 2007

Use the EMC or the Shell in Exchange Server 2007 to enable or disable Outlook Anywhere for your organization. For detailed steps, see How to Enable Outlook Anywhere.

Other Tasks

After you configure Outlook Anywhere for earlier versions of Exchange, you may also want to: