IE7 and OWA on Vista fails.. is there a workaround?

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Dan - 27 Jan 2008 22:18 GMT

Ti there,

I bought my daughter a new laptop with Vista. She accesses her school email
with OWA. IE7 on Vista has a problem with the Exchange 2003 server (IE7
crashes on email send action). According to some reading on the MS websites
and elsewhere, there seem to be a known bug related to S/MIME. So, there is
a patch for the Exchange server to have this fixed.

This takes a while (that admin of the Exchange server is primarily a
teacher) and I would like to have a workaround until this is fixed. Direct
Outlook 2007 access is not enabled, nor is IMAP.

Using Firefox somewhat works but is a pain to work with (as OWA is most
likely optimised for IEx).

Anything else I could try?

Thanks
Dan

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Roady [MVP] - 27 Jan 2008 23:00 GMT

Uninstall S/MIME via Control Panel-> Uninstall a program

Note that OWA is supported in exchange.clients

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Dan - 29 Jan 2008 22:34 GMT

> Uninstall S/MIME via Control Panel-> Uninstall a program

unfortunately the system does not allow me to uninstall that component. It
says that there is a second version of this program installed and therefore
I need to uninstall it from the control panel.
yes, I know how strange that sounds, but it's more or less what was
displayed in a window (roughly translated from german).

> Note that OWA is supported in exchange.clients

could you give me a hint more? I tried to install OWA as HTTP account in
Outlook 2003. that did not work. any other way i was not able to figure out.

thanks
dan

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Roady [MVP] - 30 Jan 2008 19:00 GMT

The newsgroup called exchange.clients ;-)
See http://www.howto-outlook.com/newsgroups for an overview.

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F.H. Muffman - 31 Jan 2008 01:30 GMT

> The newsgroup called exchange.clients ;-)

Well, strictly speaking, the newsgroup is called microsoft.public.exchange.clients
;)

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Roady [MVP] - 31 Jan 2008 09:50 GMT

Granted, but as we are already in microsoft.public... ;-)

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>> The newsgroup called exchange.clients ;-)
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> Well, strictly speaking, the newsgroup is called
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Diane Poremsky - 27 Jan 2008 23:06 GMT

Either firefox or use the basic option in IE - there is nothing a user can
do to fix it. It takes just a few minutes to install and does not require a
reboot - and is something the admin shoulda fixed months ago.

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