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
Log on to your Exchange front-end server.
Open the Registry Editor (regedit.exe).
Select the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSEx-changeWeb\OWA registry key.
Choose New→ DWORD Value from the Edit menu; name the new value
EnableFreedocs.Double-click EnableFreedocs and set the value as appropriate:
0(the default)Makes freedocs completely inaccessible from within OWA 2003
1Allows access to freedocs from back-end servers only
2Allows freedoc access from servers listed in the
AcceptedAttachmentFrontEndsregistry value3Allows unrestricted freedoc access from any FE or BE in your organization
Quit the Registry Editor.
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 ...