Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA) 2000 provides many useful features. For all browsers these features include
- access to the user's email, calendar, and contacts folders
- access to the Global Address List (GAL)
- access to public folders, including public folders that use the default calendar and contact forms
- support for front-end and back-end server configurations
- friendly URL access to items in folders
For Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 5.0 and later, OWA 2000 includes
- HTML message formatting
- support for embedded items (messages or appointments within a message) and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
- the ability to create multimedia messages
- drag-and-drop capability (within a store)
- offloading some rendering responsibilities from server
- Preview pane
- sorted columns and grouped views
You need to inform your user community of OWA's limitations, including
- no support for tasks, journaling, or notes
- no support for working offline
- no logoff option; user must close the browser to end the session
- no support for Secure MIME (S/MIME) messages (advanced security) or digital signatures
- no support for drag-and-drop capability between mailboxes and public folders
- no capability for marking messages as replied to or forwarded
- no spell checker