OWA 2000 Features and Limitations
Take a look at what Outlook 2000 can do--and what it can't do.
April 9, 2001
Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA) 2000 provides many useful features. For all browsers these features include
access to the user's email, calendar, and contacts folders
access to the Global Address List (GAL)
access to public folders, including public folders that use the default calendar and contact forms
support for front-end and back-end server configurations
friendly URL access to items in folders
For Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 5.0 and later, OWA 2000 includes
HTML message formatting
support for embedded items (messages or appointments within a message) and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
the ability to create multimedia messages
drag-and-drop capability (within a store)
offloading some rendering responsibilities from server
Preview pane
sorted columns and grouped views
You need to inform your user community of OWA's limitations, including
no support for tasks, journaling, or notes
no support for working offline
no logoff option; user must close the browser to end the session
no support for Secure MIME (S/MIME) messages (advanced security) or digital signatures
no support for drag-and-drop capability between mailboxes and public folders
no capability for marking messages as replied to or forwarded
no spell checker
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