I don't know where you heard this, but its pretty common knowledge that they have full rich OWA working on safari and firefox for the next exchange release (think windows live in firefox). It would be nice if they released an update for 2007, but the fact that they are actively working on it is good to hear.
As for calendars in OWA light, Josh it seems to work for me using this link in firefox 3.1: https://ormail.monacocoach.com/owa/joey....@monacocoach.com/?ae=Folder&t=IPF.Appointment It present me with the FBA credentials screen and I am able to login as myself and see Joey's calendar (note I have full mailbox perms on this test account, but I would assume that view/edit permissions wouldn't affect login issues.) Perhaps it's just a link change for you? -troy -----Original Message----- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:45 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Calendering and OWA Got ya now, Web Parts. Yep, IE 6 and up only now. I saw a blog from one of the Dev's on these types of issues. Their position was they would rather spend the time adding functionality to IE than spending their time adding limited functionality to other browsers. He said it better than I just did..it made sense to me at the time. From: Boggis, Josh [mailto:josh.bog...@uconn.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 10:27 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Calendering and OWA Let me give an example: https://yourservername/owa/usersalias/?cmd=contents&f=calendar Use that with IE, opens the calendar. Use that in anything else you get: Access to Calendar folders from Outlook Web Access Web Parts is supported only for Internet Explorer 6 and later. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 10:02 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Calendering and OWA I would go the public folder route with this one. I just hit my calendar with Firefox. The calendar is there and functional. Not sure what you mean by required. IE is required for full feature access. But that is not new to 2007 and not limited to the calendar. It is true of many of the OWA features. From: Boggis, Josh [mailto:josh.bog...@uconn.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:56 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Group Calendering and OWA In the middle of a migration from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. One of the features we heavily used in 2003 was a shared/group calendar. Just a mailbox where users only have permission to the calendar that they used for various things (an out of office/vacation listing for an entire department, student work schedule, etc). They could log into owa, and then via a direct OWA link access the calendar. We could do three levels of permissions on these calendars (author, editor, read only). Unfortunately I can not find a way to do this in Exchange 2007. Once I migrate the mailbox over to 2007, OWA changes what it will allow users to do. Users who had read only access are fine. Those who had author access suddenly have read only access. Those who had editor access, it get's even stranger. They can modify items, move them around, but not delete them. This entire thing just baffles me. Am I just missing something? Is there another way to create this type of calendar that isn't using public folders or sharepoint? On a side note, what is the deal with requiring IE to look at calendars now? It's looking more and more like converting to 2007 is a downgrade instead of an upgrade, we are losing several features. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
