Viewing OWA using the Outlook Full Client Browser

[David C. Holley]

I just tried to access my corporate email account using OWA from within the
Outlook full client running on my personal machine. I find it quite funny
that OWA serves up its non-IE version when displayed using browser built
into Outlook.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Not really considering Outlook is running in a much higher security
configuration than Internet Explorer and has a lot of features disabled.

Just curious; why are you accessing the OWA website via Outlook? Ask your
email admin if they also offer direct access to the corporate email servers
via Outlook Anywhere (RPC over HTTP).

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Why not use IE? Outlook locks down the browser stub it uses more than IE
does.

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[David C. Holley]

My organization has very, very tight policies in place about accessing the
network from non-company assests. So in order to check our email outside of
the network its OWA. However, I use the Outlook Full Client for my personal
emails. Its just sort of annoying to have to use Firefox or IE to access it.

While I get that the full client works with tigher security, I was under the
impression MS built into OWA a browser sniffer which serves up a striped
down version of OWA when its access from any browser other than IE. I didn't
think that the tigher security with the full client effected the look and
feel of OWA when viewed within it.

 

[David C. Holley]

When I asked about seting up my full client to access Outlook via HTTP, I
was told that it was out of bounds in terms of our security policies.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Too bad. It's funny that they do allow OWA though ;-)

You could place a shortcut to your OWA website in the Shortcuts Navigation
though. This will still gives you easy access and clicking the link there
would automatically fire it up in your default browser.

 

[David C. Holley]

I think it has to do with how Outlook Anywhere operates versus OWA. I ended
up adding a folder and setting its home page to pont to the OWA site. Works,
but its awfully ugly.

 

[David C. Holley]

Spoke too soon and now I remember why this didn't work when I tried it way
back when. When the home page is first rendered, it appears in its non-IE
format and as such is fully functional. But when the full client is closed
and reopened, OWA is rendered in its IE format which includes script that
the full client isn't happy with.