Microsoft Outlook Web Access Light 2007

re: Microsoft Outlook Web Access Light 2007

forced to love macs — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:04:39 GMT

I am very excited to see MS putting resources behind the Light Client idea. I have about 1000 users who are 70% Mac and our Exchange team constantly has to apologize for the various quirks and frustrations of Entourage/IMAP. If Premium supported Firefox, we would have a mass adoption of OWA, my support tickets would drop by 70%, and MS would win the hearts and minds of 700 hardcore Mac fans. I really REALLY want this to happen!

re: Microsoft Outlook Web Access Light 2007

Tu Vu — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:56:35 GMT

We are K-12 schools and we have about 500 Apple computers and 1000 PC. The OWA light will give our Mac users trouble because the missing of Public Folders. I never thought the new version missing this feature. It will prevent many people from migrate to Exchange 2007.

OWA Light vs Premium

Microsoft Higher Education Tech NE — Wed, 30 May 2007 16:43:55 GMT

This is allways a big question with non IE browser support for OWA. Things have improved significantly

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re: Microsoft Outlook Web Access Light 2007

Pete — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:27:14 GMT

I am an Exchange admin at a university and it saddens me that the Exchange team is releasing a crippled, yes crippled, version of OWA in Exchange 2007. The things that are missing such as rules, recover deleted items, Public Folders and Personal Distribution Lists among others are used regularly by my student user population. The absence of these features will delay our Exchange 2007 deployment until at least SP1 when the features are said to come back. If they don't we'll be forced to leave Exchange for another email system.

re: Microsoft Outlook Web Access Light 2007

Nathan Breskin-Auer — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:53:20 GMT

Brian & Mike: Both Public Folders and Rules are being considered for a future release. While these are known issues, and are taken very seriously by the OWA team, we cannot make any commitment to features, ship vehicles (Premium only vs. Premium & Light) or ship dates at this time (though we are *very* aware of both of these specific feature requests).

Sorry for the “legalese” answer... :)

re: Microsoft Outlook Web Access Light 2007

Mike — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:29:38 GMT

I don't see any mention of mail rules anywhere, too much to hope for?

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Brian — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:42:56 GMT

What is the status of accessing public folders via OWA?

We have a LOT of customers that use this feature.

re: Microsoft Outlook Web Access Light 2007

Nathan Breskin-Auer — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:29:51 GMT

Kelly: First I need to thank all of my more-technical cohorts for their answers to this... :)

As it turns out, the answer is yes, you can restrict OWA to offering only OWA Light for a specific Virtual Directory (vdir) or for a specific user.

To set the restriction on the Virtual Directory for all users, you make the following call in PowerShell:
Set-owavirtualdirectory –id:<id of virtual directory> -PremiumClientEnabled:$false

To set it for a particular user, you could call:
Set-CasMailbox –id:<id of mailbox> -OWAPremiumClientEnabled:$false

It is worth noting that even if this bit is set, the user will still see both the "Premium" and "Light" logon options. However, they will always get the Light experience, regardless of which option was chosen. The reason for this is because per-user segmentation over-rides the per-vdir segmentation, and when we render the logon page we don't know who the user is yet.

Glad to hear you’re using OWA Light! Is the “availability stuff” that you’re referring to the Free/Busy Grid on the Scheduling Tab?

re: Microsoft Outlook Web Access Light 2007

Kelly — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:57:55 GMT

We're already using this bad boy in production, and the only think I miss from the full (fat and bloated) OWA is the availability stuff. We're using it explicitly to deal with external users across a thin VPN solution and it works perfectly. I do have one question - can you modify the OWA install so that only the "light" version is running, or do you have to put up both and force the user to choose. We'd rather not let users choose - they tend to make bad choices...