Using Outlook Web Access For Mobile File Storage

[Jon Westfall]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2005/09/12/410624.aspx' target='_blank'>http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/a.../12/410624.aspx</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Since Windows 2000, the Windows shell has supported something called “web folders”, where you can browse the files and folders on a website in exactly the same way you browse your local disk....Hit OK, and you should see your OWA view replaced with what looks like a folder view. The names of many of these folders will look familiar – they’re the folders that you’ve created in your inbox. Others won’t look familiar; these are folders used by various system functions. Right click somewhere in this view (but not on a folder), select New, and create a new folder. That’s it. You can double-click on this folder to open it and drag files into it in order to copy them up to your mailbox."</i><br /><br />You Had Me At EHLO, the MS Exchange Team Blog, has a nice little trick posted on their site about using your exchange server's outlook web access as a quick &amp; dirty file store while on the road. The basic tactic involves using IE to open <a href="https://mail.contoso.com/exchange/sami/non_ipm_subtree">https://mail.contoso.com/exchange/sami/non_ipm_subtree</a> (replacing 'sami' with your username and the mail.contoso.com with your domain name obviously) as a web folder, allowing you to copy files into it. A neat trick to use if you need to store some files while mobile!

[PDANEWBIE]

actually - "mail.contoso.com" is changed to your ogranizations Exchange servers FQDN if you just put in your domain name it won't work right. Though I think most people may realize this fact I figured I'ld clarify a little.

[PR.]

Excellent, I had been doing something similar with the public folders for a while but when I switched to 4smartphone I couldn't use it anymore.

You can also create an item in the Network Places section of XP so its quicker to access without having to open IE and use OWA.

EDIT// Hmm seems when you logout of OWA that the network place doesn't then prompt for a username and password which results in an error message :(

[Raphael Salgado]

So you're saying it DOESN'T work with 4smartphone.net? I just signed up for a year, then I saw this post and thought it would be a neat feature, but it's not working for me in any https combination.

[PR.]

Oh it does work, just that you have to login to OWA everytime you want to use it.

Make sure you use your proper username in the web folder address for 4smartphone as is not the same one you use to login to OWA!

Check your profile on the 4smartphone site. My login to OWA is [email protected] but the real username you want is generated when you first created your account.

Hope that helps