Top 11 Hidden Features in Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2003

re: Top 11 Hidden Features in Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2003

Brian Hoyt — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:04:42 GMT

Are there any other views like 10. or is there anyway to manipulate (filter) that view. I am trying to use it with a shared public calendar and the formatting is great I just need to tweak it a bit.

re: Top 11 Hidden Features in Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2003

sqr — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 05:18:32 GMT

Thanks tons for making this available. I'm sure I'm "slow" but one question on #10: can you clarify in the URL what data should be inserted for "alias"?

re: Top 11 Hidden Features in Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2003

bob — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:07:55 GMT

alias = mailbox, which is sometimes your windows username.

try "bob-r" or "bob.roberts" for example.

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Setesh — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:37:36 GMT

Thanks for these tips.

I knew about some of them just from frequent use, but 1, 2, 8 and 10 truly are hidden but valuable features.

Keep up the good work !

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Brian — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:10:12 GMT

Regarding number 10 - I just figured out that I can replace my alias with the alias of others in my company and I can see their calenadar

This is a feature I have always wanted in OWA, and did not know it was always there!

Brian

re: Top 11 Hidden Features: SMIME Control Gotcha

Shawn — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:06:49 GMT

You have to watch the "gotcha" with installing the S/MIME control when running OWA on an XP-SP2 machine.

Check this link for more info:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=883543

re: Top 11 Hidden Features in Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2003

Alvin — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:09:42 GMT

Very cool!

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Jason — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 05:45:58 GMT

Hi Bryan, with regards to customizing the agenda view, unfortunately that isn't possible.

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Janne — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 21:02:49 GMT

I cannot get # 10 to work.
"HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found"

Janne

re: Top 11 Hidden Features in Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2003

Matt Drnovscek — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:27:13 GMT

Hi There,
Is there any way to format/skin the:
https://<servername>/exchange/<alias>/calendar/?cmd=contents&part=1

URL?

Thx,
M@

re: Top 11 Hidden Features in Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2003

Jason — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:31:57 GMT

Janne, check the URL carefully. Make sure it looks exactly like a normal OWA URL to your corporation all the way up to the <alias> part, then for the alias put in the username for the user and the rest of the URL from my posting and it should work.

M@-There is no way to skin this page, what you see is what you get :)

re: Top 11 Hidden Features in Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2003

Christopher — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 01:00:42 GMT

Very nice; thank you.

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Aaron — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 06:53:39 GMT

These features are great! My question, howver, is when will we see a version of OWA that is fully functional in "Premium" mode that supports non-IE browsers? Sure, I realize that it's a bit blasphemous to want to use Firefox for OWA, but I can't necessarily say that all of the users I support would agree with that.

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Matt Horrocks — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:23:52 GMT

Some cool features we didn't know about there.

Not sure if this was done in SP2 or not (haven't had time to test it + update servers yet) - but the thing that gets most moans from the users here is Contacts in OWA. In Outlook you can right-click on a Contact and get the option to send them a message - will this functionality appear in OWA sometime? (Rather than having to open the contact then click on the toolbar button).

re: Top 11 Hidden Features in Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2003

Charlie Chen — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:59:52 GMT

The Shift-column command (#8) was one of the coolest things that I've learned! Just as cool as shift-F10 to simulate a right mouse click.

re: Top 11 Hidden Features in Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2003

Simona — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 01:33:43 GMT

Tip 10 has changed my life ;-) Fantastic! Thank you!

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