Exchange 2007 - OWA

WOW! You should see OWA on Exchange 2007.

• Auto fill of the names of punters from the GAL
• Auto fill of resources
• Calendar overlays for multiple users
• New mail now comes straight to Inbox, no pop ups or refresh requirements
• Absolute Outlook 2007 look and feel
• Direct access to documents on file shares and sharepoint portals
• Access to Public folders if they are in use
• Change password just works

Utterly stunning.

Ah. But there's a problem. A massive, massive problem. Someone "forgot" about non Internet Explorer support. They seem to call this experience "Outlook Web Access Light". Let's call it how it is - "Nothing like Outlook. Web Access 19th century".

The above list? Well, you might be able to change your password but given that all of the previous stuff doesn't work, I rather lost interest. Internet Explorer 5.2 on the Mac is OWA light only as it isn't Internet Explorer 6 or higher. Same with Firefox, Opera and Safari.

Yes, I'm talking about those shiny toys called Apple computers. There is no browser on the Mac that will do anything but OWA light. You can't cludge any of them to pretend to be IE6.

Looks like the double glazed windows are making the Apples go rotten, at least as far as email is concerned.