Exchange with OWA

OWA is excelent for trveling users that have internet connections. They can access thier e-mail via the internet any where in the world. You would not want to use OWA on the Lan because OWA lacks alot of the tools that are available with Outlook 98.There is no spell checker with OWA that I am aware of and it will check for mail when you tell it to.

If you're thinking of implementing OWA, don't think 'either/or', but rather 'both/and'. OWA and Outlook both have distinct advantages, but both also come with major issues.

OWA is great for those on the road, but it doesn't support 1/10th of thefeatures of regular outlook (such as e-mail notification, spell check, most outlook forms, etc). OWA can sometimes get confused when you try to open more than one message at a time. However, it has a much smaller memory footprint that regular outlook. The OWA supplied with Exchange 2000 is DHTML/DOM compliant, and will fix many problems, but I won't hold my breath. My tradeoff solution is to use IMAP/LDAP support with Outlook Express, rather than deal with the quirks of Outlook Web Access.

ObInfo: A few months ago, our exchange private store got corrupted. OWA could access many messages that regular outlook wouldn't touch.

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