Earlier today, I read Daniel Miessler’s post entitled “Internet Explorer 7 Doesn’t Work With Exchange 2003 OWA?” and then got to wondering about this myself…
I’ve been pretty sick the last two days and haven’t been to work (even missing out on $300 per day SMS Server training) so I haven’t asked anyone around the office if they’ve tried this. I do have an XP workstation at work, but 95% of the time I just use it to run Outlook and do all the “real work” on my Linux workstation. Hell, I don’t even have XP on my laptop anymore.
Anyways, I do have an XP box at home that is somewhat of a testbed, so I took the plunge and installed IE7 (haven’t touched it since one of the early betas). Actually, it just finished rebooting, so let’s see what happens when I try to access OWA at $work…
waits impatiently for the box to become responsive after logging in
keeps Google as the default search engine
turns on the automatic phishing filter
finally gets to his home page
Ahh, there we go… now, let’s hit up OWA…
Works perfectly (or as perfect as IE7 and OWA can, anyways). Weird… I wonder what’s different between Daniel’s configuration and my own that would cause the IE7/OWA combo not to work for him.
October 20th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
I think it’s the SMIME extensions. I unregistered some files from the command line and things seem to be working.