OWA 2000 User Guide

A lot of companies use an OWA session security solution such as OWA Forms-based authentication, ISA Forms-based authentication, RSA SecurID, Messageware TimeGuard, or SafeWord from Secure Computing. These solutions all have an inactivity timeout feature which logs users off OWA users after an extended period of inactivity. Note that working on a new message is not seen as activity by OWA -- you have to be moving in the main OWA frame to be active.

1. Open the registry editor (Start\Run\Regedit)
2. Locate the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeWeb\OWA.
3. Create a new DWORD.
4. In the New Value #1 box, type DefaultMailboxFolderSet.
5. Right-click and select Modify.
6. Select Decimal and type the value that corresponds to the OWA features to be enabled. Refer to Microsoft article https://support.microsoft.com/kb/833340 to calculate the segmentation value.
7. Click OK to apply the changes.

Note: In a front-end / back-end environment, segmentation settings must be made on the back-end server.

For additional information about the segmentation attributes, refer to Microsoft's article below.https://support.microsoft.com/kb/833340.

Pasting images into messages is not an OWA feature. There are two workarounds to getting images into your message:

1. You can paste HTML links to images, but this means that the image needs to be stored on a public server. An example of this would be when you copy an image from a website and then paste it into an OWA message
2. You can embed images using Outlook, which actually stores images as attachments, making them available for recipients using OWA to see.

There is a Microsoft knowledgebase article, available below, which explains how to paste an image into the OWA signature. The workaround does not always seem to work and is not supported by Microsoft as an official solution.

How to get an image into the signature file in OWA

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrclients/thread/1bb882b3-03dc-4085-ae06-a787fd76fd39/

A Microsoft knowledgebase article suggests that there are two ways to change the OWA 2000 logon page;

1. Direct users to custom OWA pages which link to the appropriate OWA folders; or
2. Use HTML and WebDAV to Create a Customized Web Program.

For details on these configuration options, refer to https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=321832

OWA on MAC browsers may cache OWA content since the last refresh, as a result, new mail arriving in the Inbox may not show the content in the preview pane until the Inbox is refreshed.

When viewing an OWA attachment on a client machine, a copy gets saved in the cache of that machine. If this computer is shared or a public terminal, (such as a kiosk, library etc) the attachment can be viewed, copied and saved by by unauthorized users.

There are third party add-ons, such as Messageware AttachView (www.messageware.com), which offer secure web access to OWA attachments by converting attachment files into secure web pages for over 300 file formats, providing secure access to attachments without the need of the application on the local computer.

When users login to OWA they may see the content of the last accessed folder as their Inbox content, this may cause confusion for the users. A workaround allows the Inbox folder to be set as the last accessed folder for all connections.

For more information refer to https://support.microsoft.com/kb/817203/en-us

To set OWA as the default mail client, you need to use a third party add-on, such as ActiveSend from Messageware (www.messageware.com). ActiveSend gives users the ability to set OWA as the default email within desktop applications, enabling the SendTo and MailTo functions, hyperlinks in web pages.

The below Microsoft article describes how to permit OWA users search address books based on multiple organizational units or specific address lists, rather than being restricted to just their organizational unit or one address list.

For more information refer to https://support.microsoft.com/kb/817218/en-us

To access Public Folders on Exchange 5.5, a Connection Agreement must be made with the Exchange 2000 computer and the Exchange Server 5.5 public folders must be replicated to the Exchange 2000 computer.

Your Administrator seems to have setup the POP3 or IMAP service on the server. These services hold emails on the server until you connect using Outlook. All emails are then pulled down to your desktop leaving your Inbox empty.

OWA connects to the mailbox on the server showing you all of your new emails since the last time you connected using Outlook.

If you do not want your emails to be downloaded each time, ask your helpdesk if you can set up an Outlook connection directly to the Microsoft Exchange Server, not using POP3 or IMAP. Note that you can only set up this type of connection while you are in office.

For more information on POP3 read:

https://searchexchange.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid43_gci212805,00.html

For more information on email accounts see:

https://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA010955041033.aspx

Once it is installed on the server, the thesaurus icon will be visible in the new message toolbar.

Once it is installed on the server, you can enable the option to Always check spelling before sending and chooses your spell check language from the OWA Options page.

The reply and forward buttons are ways to respond to messages. The reply button allows you to send an email back to the person who sent the email. The forward button allows you to send the email to someone who was not in the TO, or CC lines of the email.

For example, if you get an email from John who included Jim and Nancy in the CC line:

• Use Reply () if you want to write back to John about the email.
  
• Use Reply to All () if you want to write back to John and let Jim and Nancy see your response.
  
• Use Forward () if you want to send John's email to Amanda, to let her know what John written.

• you do not want others to know the email address
• you do not want others to know that you are letting this person know of the communication
• you are sending a public email and do not want people to get each other's email address
• you are working with a third party and do not want the parties to contact each other

You can sort your emails by clicking on the column headings including From, Subject and Received. This will sort the emails based on the column selected.

To sort your email by sender, press on the FROM column title. To change the order from ascending to descending, click on the FROM column title a second time.

1. Check the OWA address is correct
   When incorrect, you may see a page cannot be found or Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage error. You will also not see the login screen or prompt
2. Check your username and password
   When incorrect, you will be prompted to re-enter your password several times in a row without getting access to your mailbox. After three tries you will see an error indicating that you are not authorized.
3. Try accessing OWA using a different browser
   If you cannot get into OWA, try connecting to OWA using another browser. For example, if you are using Internet Explorer, try using Firefox or Netscape and visa versa.
4. Try accessing OWA using a different computer
   Go to another computer and try logging into OWA using your account, Can you connect?
5. Ask you coworkers if they can connect to OWA
   Check with the people around you to see if they are also having problems.
6. Document any errors you get and provide all the information to your Corporate Help Desk or Exchange Administrator for assistance
   To take a screenshot of any errors you get by pressing the "Print Screen" button on your keyboard. Once you press the print screen button the picture will be on your clipboard. Open a Microsoft Word document, right-click on the whitespace and press Paste.
   
   Gather up as much information about what you are seeing so that you can provide it to your Help Desk or System Administrator.

You will need to speak to your Exchange Administrator about setting up a VPN or RPC over HTTP connection for you. Refer to the Microsoft knowledgebase article below for more information.

Description of the configuration options for the Exchange over the Internet feature in Outlook 2007 and in Outlook 2003

To set OWA as the default mail client, which lets you send messages from within Microsoft Office, respond via MailTo links on websites and send attachments by right-clicking on files on the desktop, you need to use a third party add-on, such as ActiveSend from Messageware (www.messageware.com)

ActiveSend also includes the ability to save an encrypted username and password, and toggle between mail accounts so you can change the default email from OWA to Outlook, for example, if you are using a notebook both in and out of the office.

The Out of Office Assistant sends an automatic email to anyone who sends you an email while you are not in the office. You can set up your out of office message using Outlook Web Access (OWA).

To setup your out of office message,

1. Go to the Options page by pressing the Options button on the bottom left side of the OWA window.
2. Under the Out of Office Assistant heading select I'm currently out of the office.
3. Under the AutoReply only once to each sender with the following text: type in your out of office message.
4. Press the Save and Close button at the top of the OWA window.

If you are trying to send an email to multiple people, you can start by opening the address book from the To button. The Find Names Address will open in a new browser window. Search for the first person using the search fields, click on the name once and then press the To, Cc or Bcc button. The address book will remain open and let you continue with your search until you press Close.

There is a way to quickly address a message to multiple people, this is by holding down the Ctrl keyboard key and clicking on each name that you want to send the email to, see the example below.

To do this, your company will need to install a product called Messageware Plus Pack which is available from Messageware Incorporated (www.messageware.com). Plus Pack adds features to Outlook Web Access to make it more like desktop Outlook.

You can set the address book to search Contacts by default via the OWA Options page. To change the OWA default,

1. Open the OWA Options page by selecting Options from the Button Bar.
   
   
   
2. Scroll down to the Contact Options section and set the Check names first in: section to Contacts.
   
   
   
3. Press the Save and Close button at the top of the page.

1. Open the address book from the To button in a new message or the address book button at the Inbox toolbar.
2. Fill in one or more of the search fields such as First name, Last name or Department.
3. Press the Find button to find the person.
4. To address a message to the person click on their name and press the To, CC or BCC button at the bottom of the address book.

In the example below Sam Powers was added to the TO line of a new message using the address book.

When viewing an OWA attachment, a copy gets saved in the Temporary Internet cache of that computer. If this computer is shared or a public terminal, (such as a kiosk, library etc) the attachment can be viewed, copied and saved by unauthorized users.