What is Microsoft Outlook Web Access ?
With Office Outlook Web Access, you can use a Web browser to access your Microsoft Exchange Server mailbox from any computer with an Internet connection. You can use Outlook Web Access with Microsoft Internet Explorer or many other browsers for UNIX, Apple Macintosh, or computers running Microsoft Windows®.
Microsoft Outlook Web Access, or OWA, allows users of Microsoft Outlook to access their email, contacts, calendars and other information over the Internet, without having to be at their personal computer.AvailabilityOutlook Web Access is available only for email addresses set up on Microsoft Exchange Server, a product designed for businesses and other organizations. Home users of Outlook typically can’t use it.AccessOWA users can access their Outlook information from any computer by going to a secure website and typing in their user name and password.InterfaceThe OWA interface is designed to mimic the look and feel of Outlook. Most functions and features available when a user is on his own computer are available in OWA.CompatabilityOWA can be accessed with any web browser, although earlier releases required Internet Explorer for full functionality.