OWA

Happy Birthday OWA: Outlook Web Access Turns 10!

Outlook Web Access, the web-based interface for accessing Exchange, turns 10 today! Released on May 23, 1997, as part of Exchange 5.0, OWA went by the name “Exchange Web Access” back then. OWA has come a long way since Exchange 5.0 – abandoning its ability to live on a separate (non-Exchange) IIS server on the […]

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Locating Exchange Server 2007 CAS role in the perimeter?

Where should you locate Exchange Server 2007 servers with the Client Access Server (CAS) role? Is it more secure to locate them in perimeter network (aka “DMZ” or demilitarized zone)? Security folks in many organizations insist that any server that needs to be accessed from external networks (i.e. the Internet) should reside in perimeter networks. […]

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Windows Vista and Outlook Web Access

If you’re using a version of Windows Vista since Beta 2 (including RTM), the version of IE7 included with Vista does not have or support the DHTML Editing (ActiveX) control that allows you to compose or reply to messages in Outlook Web Access. As a result, when you try to compose or reply to messages […]

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SCRIPT: Show OWA Users

This is a modified script that shows current OWA/HTTP logons to the Store(s) on a given server(s). The script takes NetBIOS names of servers as command-line arguments (separated by spaces), uses the Exchange_Logon WMI class to connect to a server and retrieve list of users currently logged on. Usage: ShowHTTPLogons.vbs EXCH1 EXCH2 EXCH3 If Cscript […]

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Users Cannot Save or Send Mail in Japanese using OWA

Users in Japan cannot send and receive messages in Japanese. They get an error in Japanese. Translation: You cannot send the message because the code page of this language was not found on the server. Contact your system administrator This is actually documented in the Exchange Server 2003 RTM Release Notes. Go to Known Issues […]

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