8.11. Using the OWA Web Administration Tool
Problem
You want to easily administer the Outlook Web Access parameters on your Exchange server, using Microsoft's Outlook Web Access Web Administration (OWAAdmin) utility.
Solution
Using a graphical user interface
Log on to the machine within your domain from which you want to administer your OWA servers, using an account with administrative permissions. This machine must have IIS 5.0 or later, and it must have Version 1.1 or later of the Microsoft .NET Framework.
Download the OWA Web Administration utility from Microsoft's download site at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4BBE7065-A04E-43CA-8220-859212411E10.
Extract the installation package (OwaAdmin.MSI) from the download archive by running OWAAdmin.exe and choosing a target directory.
Run OWAAdmin.MSI.
When the Outlook Web Access Web Administration utility finishes installing, connect to the OWAAdmin server by launching Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 or greater and opening https://machinename/owaadmin.
If you only have one OWA server in the domain, it will open by default. Otherwise, you may select any of your domain's OWA servers from the drop-down list.
Discussion
The OWA Web Administration Tool provides easy access to advanced OWA features that previously had to be changed by editing the OWA server's registry. This graphical interface is so useful that it provides in one succinct interface almost all the OWA settings available in other recipes in this book! The tool uses ...