Will he not need to have a second Exchange 2003 server to sit in the DMZ and host OWA? I thought starting with Exchange 2000 you need to have a frontend backend solution in place for this method to work. I also believe that you have to have Exchange 2003 Enterprise. Justin -----Original Message----- From: Paul Bergson (MP) [mailto:pbergson@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tue 10/02/2004 11:20 AM To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Cc: Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Exchange placement Why would you want to put exchange in the dmz? If you want external clients to get at their internal e-mail then place owa in the dmz and pop holes in the firewall to your exchange server. Thanks