Posts Tagged ‘OWA’

April 26 2009

Instant Messaging inside Outlook Web Access

Outlook Web Access in Exchange Server 2010 offers integrated instant messaging capability right from the browser.
Check this out:

You also see presence information against each contact in an email header.

You can also change your status from the top right corner of the OWA page:

November 22 2008

CAS running an ‘older version’ of Exchange?

Outlook Web Access is not currently available for the user mailbox that you are trying to access. If the problem continues, contact technical support for your organization and tell them the following: The Microsoft Exchange Client Access server that is proxying the Outlook Web Access requests is running an older version of Microsoft Exchange [...]

October 19 2008

Problems logging in to new Exchange Server 2007 mailboxes via OWA

Sometimes users may face problems logging in to new mailboxes created or moved in to Exchange Server 2007 when they use Outlook Web Access. Users may get error messages like the one below (abridged):
Request Url: https://webmail.company.com:443/owa/lang.owa User host address: 192.168.x.x
Exception Exception type: Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.StoragePermanentException Exception message: There [...]

July 13 2008

Getting the ‘Change Password’ feature to work in a co-existence scenario

If you are running Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 in co-existence and you have users on both systems, you will notice that, while Exchange 2007’s new OWA interface has a brand new Change Password option, the Change Password functionality for the users on Exchange 2003 has stopped working and you receive a 404 – File [...]

April 30 2008

Login problems on Exchange 2007 OWA

If you have two separate Exchange Server 2007 mailbox servers, and users in one mailbox server can login to Outlook Web Access using your Client Access Server, while the users on the second mailbox server cannot log in to Outlook Web Access using the same Client Access Servers, the following might help.
This issue [...]

April 17 2008

Integrated authentication on Exchange Server 2007 IIS virtual directories

In an earlier post, I explained how you can use Outlook Web Access (OWA) hosted on Exchange 2007 CAS Servers for accessing Exchange 2003 mailboxes in a co-existence environment by using the /exchange virtual directory.
Exchange Server 2007 CAS Servers come with Forms Based Authentication enabled by default. Now, if you wanted to disable the forms [...]