OWA 101 for beginners

by Meaghan Ringwelski on February 1, 2010

OWA aka. Outlook Web Access is a webmail service of Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 and later. While its original name is Exchange Web Connect (EWC), many people know it as OWA, and was renamed with Exchange 2010 Server as Outlook Web App. It is a cross platform, MAPI based Webmail, Calendar and address book. Some of the Outlook features are looking alike in OWA. You don’t have to carry your computer anywhere to check your emails. OWA carries them for you.

mail2web provides you OWA login from different areas. So you may check your Exchange accounts using mail2web.

Go to mail2web and login with your credentials. A tiny note, you have to be signed up for mail2web mobile or mail2web mobile pro account.

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After you signed in you’ll have such a screen.

outlookici

It looks like pretty much similar with Outlook Exchange.

It is syncing with your Outlook Exchange concurrently and everything you make with OWA will be reflected to your Outlook, too. Every folder you’ve created, every rule you assigned is valid for OWA.

menu

As you may see from the menu, there is Calender, Webmail and Adressbook. You may also arrange your tasks and flagged items.

calendar

contacts

tasks

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You can also change some settings according to your needs. You may assign an e-mail signature, change message format as html or plain text.

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You can create new rules or arrange them.

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You can maximize your email security while downloading S/MIME feature. If you don’t have S/MIME you’ll get this warning. Simply click and install it.

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If you’ve installed or already have S/MİME you can encrypt the content of your messages and add a digital signature to all outgoing messages.

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Lastly, you can synchronize your OWA with your mobile phone. I synched mine with my iPhone.

mobile

You can get broader information for hosted Exchange services of mail2web from here.

Related posts:

  1. Features and benefits of OWA
  2. What is OWA?
  3. Tips to Keep Outlook Web Access Secure
  4. iPhone TIps: Accessing Web-Mail
  5. SP1 for Exchange 2007

{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

mynameisduf February 16, 2010 at 4:22 PM

This tutorial is really thorough and is just the kind of thing that someone like me needs Step by step with written instructions and pictures to boot

Very well done You should create a section just for things like this

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mailfanatic February 17, 2010 at 4:47 PM

Great tutorial but the images are a little fuzzy at times, you might want to consider enlarging them in future tutorials.I love how simple you guys make everything though.

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jack-o-lantern February 19, 2010 at 3:11 PM

Its crazy to think about how far the internet has come in such a relatively short time. I remember when hotmail was the big kahuna then yahoo then gmail and now most people have this kind of service making their computer optional for email in general. Its so crazy!

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