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Exchange Server Cookbook
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Exchange Server Cookbook

by Paul Robichaux, Missy Koslosky, Devin L. Ganger
June 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
464 pages
13h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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8.5. Configuring Freedoc Access for OWA 2003

Problem

You want to control whether OWA 2003 users can access documents stored directly in public folders.

Solution

Using a graphical user interface

  1. Log on to your Exchange front-end server.

  2. Open the Registry Editor (regedit.exe).

  3. Select the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSEx-changeWeb\OWA registry key.

  4. Choose New DWORD Value from the Edit menu; name the new value EnableFreedocs.

  5. Double-click EnableFreedocs and set the value as appropriate:

    0 (the default)

    Makes freedocs completely inaccessible from within OWA 2003

    1

    Allows access to freedocs from back-end servers only

    2

    Allows freedoc access from servers listed in the AcceptedAttachmentFrontEnds registry value

    3

    Allows unrestricted freedoc access from any FE or BE in your organization

  6. Quit the Registry Editor.

  7. Restart the Exchange server.

Using a command-line interface

The following command sets the EnableFreedocs value on your front-end server:

> reg add HKLM\System\currentcontrolset\services\MSExchangeWeb\OWA 
   /v EnableFreedocs /t REG_DWORD /d <value>

where <value> is a value from the list in step 5 above.

Using VBScript

' This code creates the EnableFreedocs key and reboots the server ' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------ strOWA = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeWeb\OWA\" strFreedoc = strOWA & "EnableFreedocs" ' ------ END CONFIGURATION --------- Set objWSH = wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") objWSH.RegWrite strFreedoc, 3, "REG_DWORD" WScript.echo ...
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