OWA and DNS Records

[eyeball]

Hi all.

we have owa setup at a lot of our clients and currently use this format:

https://mail.domain.co.uk/exchange

this is still quite long however.

someone i know goes to huddersfield uni and they access their owa by going to mail.hud.ac.uk

i did a lookup and found that an A record points owalb.ad.hud.ac.uk to their external ip

even if i put into a web browser just "owalb.ad.hud.ac.uk" this takes me to their OWA.

can anyone explain to me how this is achieved? is it something thats configured on their IIS server, or could it be done by redirection?

thanks for any help

EDIT: its ok a colleague told me its done by redirection. please delete this post admin

thanks

Edited December 5, 2006 by eyeball

[cluberti]

Just for the edification of those who may not know and search for this, here's the KB on how to do it:

319878: How to make Outlook Web Access the default Web site

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;EN-US;319878