{"id":288,"date":"2002-12-27T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-27T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/2002\/12\/27\/accessing-office-mail-when-away\/"},"modified":"2002-12-27T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-27T23:00:00","slug":"accessing-office-mail-when-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/accessing-office-mail-when-away.html","title":{"rendered":"Accessing Office Mail When Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>source: Woody&#8217;s Travellers Watch<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i><a HREF=\"mailto:&#087;&#105;&#110;&#088;&#080;&#064;&#119;&#111;&#111;&#100;&#121;&#115;&#119;&#097;&#116;&#099;&#104;&#046;&#099;&#111;&#109;\">Travel<\/a><a HREF=\"mailto:&#084;&#114;&#097;&#118;&#101;&#108;&#064;&#119;&#111;&#111;&#100;&#121;&#115;&#119;&#097;&#116;&#099;&#104;&#046;&#099;&#111;&#109;\">@woodyswatch.com<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s great to see more and more business travellers using &#039;Outlook<br \/>\n Web Access&#039; (OWA) on the road. This is a webmail way to access corporate<br \/>\n mail systems using Microsoft Exchange Server.<\/p>\n<p>When you open OWA in a browser it looks much like normal Outlook. You<br \/>\n can read, delete, reply and forward email plus manage your contacts, calendar,<br \/>\n notes, tasks and public folders. There are some limitations (you can&#039;t<br \/>\n move a message from one folder to another) but it works pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>If your company uses Exchange Server but you don&#039;t have Outlook Web<br \/>\n Access, ask your network administrator. OWA is installed by default on<br \/>\n Exchange Server so it&#039;s probably ready for you even if the network<br \/>\n gods haven&#039;t told you. If you&#039;re sneaky you can try finding it<br \/>\n from a browser linked to your intranet by trying urls that have a company<br \/>\n server name plus &#039;\/exchange&#039; (the default folder) such as http:\/\/\/exchange (e.g. http:\/\/mailmachine\/exchange).<\/p>\n<p>Outlook Web Access can be used inside a company network too. If you&#039;re<br \/>\n away from your work desk or computer has broken you can access your mail<br \/>\n from any browser. But OWA is mostly used by staff accessing mail from<br \/>\n outside company premises. Provided your mail server is accessible from<br \/>\n the Internet you can use OWA from any net terminal anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The link to access OWA will probably be different away from the intranet,<br \/>\n something like http:\/\/mail.dagg.com\/exchange but your network gurus will<br \/>\n give you the exact link.<\/p>\n<p>However you access OWA you&#039;ll be prompted for your login name, password<br \/>\n and possibly domain. This not only gives you access to the company mail<br \/>\n server but also tells Exchange Server which mail account to display.<\/p>\n<p>Security Tip: when you&#039;re using OWA from any computer not yours make<br \/>\n sure you DON&#039;T check the &#039;Remember this password&#039; box. If<br \/>\n you do so anyone could access you email from that public terminal after<br \/>\n you walk away. When using someone else&#039;s computer on your intranet<br \/>\n the same thing applies, you don&#039;t want someone else looking at your<br \/>\n email.<\/p>\n<p>With OWA available from anywhere, you might not have to lug your laptop!<br \/>\n If you don&#039;t have much email or it&#039;s just a short trip then many<br \/>\n business people have decided to leave their laptop computer at home and<br \/>\n just check their email at public Internet terminals (cafe&#039;s, hotel<br \/>\n business centres and some airline lounges).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>source: Woody&#8217;s Travellers Watch &#x54;&#x72;&#97;v&#x65;&#x6c;&#64;wo&#x6f;&#x64;&#121;s&#x77;&#x61;&#116;&#99;h&#x2e;&#x63;&#111;m It&#039;s great to see more and more business travellers using &#039;Outlook Web Access&#039; (OWA) on the road. 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