This can be done by changing a few settings in the registry more specifically you need to add a new String Value (REG_SZ) called Disable MAPI Clients under: Now that you have configured OWA 2003 as the default mail client on your user’s workstations you may want to go one step further and actually block Microsoft Office Outlook (MAPI) access to your Exchange Server as well. Siegfried Weber has a ton of other very useful OWA scripts and add-on’s so no matter if you select to checkout his Exchange WebForms package or not his site is definitely worth a visit.įinally Tosh Meston who’s a developer on the Microsoft OWA team also has some information on making OWA the default mail client by adding a few registry keys to the client, but again this solution is also far from comprehensive compared to ActiveSend.īlocking Outlook MAPI Client Access to the Exchange Server Then you can select OWA as the default mail client under Tools > Internet Options > Programs in Internet Explorer (see figure 8).įigure 8: Specifying Outlook Web Access as the Default E-mail Program in IE To make it possible to select OWA 2003 as the default mail client you only need to execute the f located in the WebForm – NewMail which is a subfolder to Exchange WebForms, here you simply specify the URL of the OWA server as shown in figure 7: Be aware though this solution is far from perfect compared to the one delivered by Messageware. It can’t get much better than that can it?įigure 3: ActiveSend – Mail Recipient in Wordįigure 4: ActiveSend – OWA Message through Wordįigure 5: ActiveSend – OWA Message through Context menuįigure 6: ActiveSend – OWA Message through mailto: Link in Internet ExplorerĪctiveSend also replaces the Outlook icon in the Start menu.Īs you might have guessed ActiveSend isn’t freeware although the product is priced relatively low ($25 per CAL or even lower depending on number of users), therefore if you’re looking for a freeware solution you should instead checkout Exchange MVP Siegfried Weber’s Exchange WebForms package (WebForm NewMail) over at his Playground site. ActiveSend turns OWA into the default mail client, so users can one click and utilize the Mail To: hyperlinks found in email, documents and web sites (see figures 3, 4, 5 and 6). When ActiveSend has been installed you need to enter the URL to your OWA site and specify the username and password, so that the product doesn’t need to open the OWA Forms-based authentication page or authenticate with a username/password each time you want to send out an email, see figure 1 and 2 below:įigure 1: ActiveSend Configuration – Generalįigure 2: ActiveSend Configuration – SecurityĪctiveSend integrates OWA with Microsoft Office as well as other MAPI applications so users can easily send attachments from within applications with just the click of the “Send To” button.
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If you ever need to remove this setting, you can do that by navigating to Preferences->Applications->mailto in Firefox, and removing Outlook.Alright I’m hooked on this idea, how do I proceed? Well fortunately there exist a couple of solutions on the Internet, the most comprehensive is a 3rd party product called ActiveSend developed by Messageware whom we know from products such as the OWA Plus Pack and SessionGuard. Open Outlook for the Web in a Chrome tab (you must do this on an Outlook tab).If you ever need to remove this setting, you can do that by typing in chrome://settings/handlers in the Chrome browser bar, and removing Outlook. Pick "Set as default" to make Outlook the default handler.
If Outlook is not already the default handler, click on the "3 dot" menu to the right of the Outlook entry. In Chrome preferences, navigate to chrome://settings/handlers.Click "Allow" in the dialog which comes up.Open your javascript console (cmd-opt-j on Mac, ctrl-shift-j on Windows) and enter navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto"," ","Outlook ").Open Outlook for the Web in a Chrome tab (you must do this on an tab open to Microsoft Outlook tab).You can use Alt Legal to send emails directly to your contacts regarding the status of a particular filing. Most email issues can be solved without this workaround. This is an advanced article, please do not attempt without consulting with the support team first.