The New OWA Rocks Tablets and Phones!

re: The New OWA Rocks Tablets and Phones!

Ankur Kothari MSFT — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:23:15 GMT

@Tr - Not sure I can address the consistency thing over this medium, but perhaps you can help me understand the scenarios? No for offline - it is only in full OWA.

re: The New OWA Rocks Tablets and Phones!

Harry Hersbach — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:00:22 GMT

The Windows 8 Outlook will not connect to our Exchange 2010 Server, we do not have certificate.

But what is the reason that Ipad's Iphones and Adroids all do work ?

https://mail.hhtools.nl

re: The New OWA Rocks Tablets and Phones!

Tr — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 07:13:32 GMT

@Ankur , thank you so much it worked. however, the behavior is inconsistant on IE10 and takes a while to load..

also , is there away to make it offline?

re: The New OWA Rocks Tablets and Phones!

Ankur Kothari MSFT — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 03:06:10 GMT

@tr usercardtemplate - add ?layout=twide to the end of the URL. In addition, tnarrow is the mobile optimized view.

re: The New OWA Rocks Tablets and Phones!

Tr — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 19:31:56 GMT

Hi , how do I get the tablet view mode on my surface ie10 , it is currently viewing on desktop view ...?

re: The New OWA Rocks Tablets and Phones!

Om_Audio — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:37:21 GMT

All I want to know is will smart/search folders finally work in 2013 OWA? So tired of adjusting Outlook locally only to have search folders in OWA just stop working again. Also, any news if ActiveSync will get any better integration w Android OS? I really dislike TouchDown for Android but it is the only game in town that offers full Exch support on the Android platform. At the very least MS could make their own Exch app and sell it- I would buy it in a second. I miss my BB in that regard tremendously.

re: The New OWA Rocks Tablets and Phones!

Jakobimon — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:16:05 GMT

Thanks for the reply Kristian, I understand it's a preview so my comment was more meant as feedback/suggestion than criticism :)

re: The New OWA Rocks Tablets and Phones!

Kristian Andaker (MSFT) — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 17:11:27 GMT

GoodThings2Life & Jakobimon: I think you're being a little quick to pull the trigger judging Outlook 2013's whiteness based on the preview relased so far. This is good feedback which will be considered for the final RTM release.

James: Exchange ActiveSync will continue to be the most frequently used way to access Exchange mailboxes from tablets and phones for now. It has offline sync which is important on unreliable mobile networks, whereas OWA for tablets and phones (for now) is an online only experience. OWA for tablets and phones is a great quick way to access your mailbox from someone else's tablet/phone, and it offers a set of functionality which most EAS clients don't (e.g. seeing lots of information from the Global Address List and other sources about a person; meeting scheduling).

Karsten: single-line view is not in OWA2013. But thanks for the feedback. We'll consider adding it for future releases.

Karsten & Nuno: We have prioritized showing data other than email size about messages since we, since E2007, see most customers deploying Exchange with large mailboxes (at the very least 5GB). Managing messages based on size has become much less important to most users today, compared to 5-10 years ago.

Paaja: Unfortunately we don't offer OWA Premium on Android with Exchange 2013 RTM. But given the market share of that platform, we have it on the investments we are considering for the future.

Andy: OWA supports display of data from multiple mailboxes today (even with Exchange 2010). This is called "aggregation". It sucks all the data from another mailbox into your primary mailbox, so you can see both when looking at your primary mailbox. OWA also supports userA looking at userB's mailbox directly (this is called "open other mailbox" in the OWA UI), but when doing this, you can't see multiple mailboxes in the same OWA window.

Wlodzislaw: I think you're commenting on the new outlook.com service here, which is not the same product or UI as Outlook Web App (OWA) which this blog post is about. OWA only works against MS Exchange accounts.

re: The New OWA Rocks Tablets and Phones!

Wlodzislaw — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 06:40:01 GMT

Is there a way to add MS Exchange account? I can see only POP3. Also the name Hotmail appears all the time, so it seems like a half-cooked migration.

Wlodzislaw

re: The New OWA Rocks Tablets and Phones!

Andy — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:24:44 GMT

Will OWA support the display of multiple mailboxes in a manner similar to Outlook (i.e. not just the inbox, but the complete folder structure)?