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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 4:12 PM

How do I force OWA to only the web page in Engish?

There is no supported way to do this. OWA uses the IE language settings to decide which language to display. Remember that OWA is a web application and goes off of browser settings just like most every other web site out there. During the intial log-in
Posted by Daniel | 1 Comments
Friday, December 12, 2008 8:29 PM

WebDAV FBA Authentication Sample Explained.

Here is some basic information on how FBA authentication is done with WebDAV. To provide some insight into how this works, you should look at the sample code of KB891748 and review it with the explanation below. Note that if you are going against Exchange
Posted by Daniel | 2 Comments
Friday, December 12, 2008 7:54 PM

WebDAV and OWA Authentication Settings

With any login issue, it’s important to know which authentication protocols are valid. You have to code to an authentication protocol which can be used. The authentication settings for OWA and WebDAV are tied together under Exchange 2000 and 2003. Because
Posted by Daniel | 2 Comments
Friday, July 18, 2008 6:32 PM

WebDAV: XML DOM vs managed classes.

I've seen a lot of issues with using the MSXML DOM when trying to get credentials from the owaauth.dll for FBA authentication. The managed classes seem to work all the time and in all versions. However, the MSXML DOM wont always reuturn cookies and sometimes
Posted by Daniel | 1 Comments
Thursday, April 24, 2008 3:29 PM

Why can't WebDAV read BCC?

Using WebDAV to read BCC information on messages (even in the Drafts folder) will not work. The “urn:schemas:mailheader:bcc” will not return the BCC information using WebDAV - this is expected behavior. If you do a GET against the message to get the MIME,
Posted by Daniel | 1 Comments
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 7:08 PM

Howto: Get Free/Busy Information with WebDAV/HTTP

CDO 1.21, CDOEX, etc can get Free/Busy information, however WebDAV cannot directly. You may use a GET against OWA to get this information. A GET against an OWA URL is really not a WebDAV call… it’s really just plain HTTP GET call – you just need to be
Posted by Daniel | 0 Comments
Monday, April 14, 2008 7:34 PM

Reading and changing OWA Settings

In OWA 2003, there were OWA settings mirrored in properties on the root folder of mailboxes which WebDAV could get to. There was limited support for accessing a few of these properties with WebDAV. The online docs still state that these properties are
Posted by Daniel | 1 Comments
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:25 PM

How to use WebDAV to access mailboxes across Exchange servers?

If there is a front-end server setup, you can access by opening a connection using HTTP or HTTPS and to WebDAV they would seem seamless - i.e. one server. This is what I have seen used almost all of the time. Using Microsoft Exchange 2000 Front-End Servers
Posted by Daniel | 1 Comments
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:19 PM

Howto Delete Attachments with WebDAV

The DELETE verb only works on Exchange 2003 SP1 - it will not work on any earlier version/service pack. CDOEX, CDO 1.21, Extended MAPI, etc can do this on Exchange 2000 or 2003. One possible work-around is to read the message stream using a WebDAV GET,
Posted by Daniel | 0 Comments
Friday, February 01, 2008 6:05 PM

How WebDAV - Use Basic Authentication with WebDAV even when FBA is enabled.

Some customers (developers) wish to use Basic Authentication when Forms Based Authentication (FBA) is enabled for Outlook Web Access (OWA). If OWA's FBA is enabled, all WebDAV access needs to be FBA authenticated - which means significant changes need
Posted by Daniel | 4 Comments
Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:39 PM

How to access or change OWA settings for Exchange 2007/2003/2000?

There is no supported way of changing OWA settings using WebDAV for Exchange 2007. Under Exchange 2000 and 2003, there were properties on the mailbox root which could be changed via code. However OWA 2007 is a much different animal. Under Exchange 2000
Posted by Daniel | 1 Comments
Thursday, January 31, 2008 10:39 PM

Setting timezone options with CDO 1.21.

CDO 1.21 Timezone information is stored in a a property inside of the user's mailbox and is CDO 1.21 specific. It is set any time a CDO 1.21 session sets the time zone and persists for that user until changed. This means it will be used by any subsequent
Posted by Daniel | 1 Comments
Friday, May 04, 2007 7:48 PM

Using ISAPI Extensions to change-out OWA Credential is not supported

Single sign-on applications usually use an ISAPI Extension on Exchange servers in order to swap-out credentials being passed to OWA. This type of manipulation is not supported by Microsoft. In fact any thing which augments the behavior in this way is
Posted by Daniel | 0 Comments
 
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