Thanks for your comments. I’m glad to hear that you do indeed like the add-in (despite its limitations). I know that my family uses it every day now. We absolutely love it!

The next version, which looses the dependency on the Console application, will be even better. I’m working hard to get it out in beta form. So far, it’s looking really good. It has turned out to be a lot more work than I originally expected, but I think that it will be worth it in the end.

BTW, sorry for the misspelling of you name in my prior post.

Take care.

– MIKE

Don’t get me wrong, i think this is by fare the coolest and most usefull add-in to WHS, and i just wish i could use it. Trying to figure out how to run RDP over HTTP.

-Claus

Nope, it’s not a “real” web interface (and I never claimed it to be). It simply uses a Remote Desktop Web Connection to work its magic. Sorry to hear that your workplace is closed to those types of connections.

BTW, my original plans were indeed to construct a completely stand-alone web interface for WHS Outlook. That turned out to be a HUGE amount of work though and so I kind of put it on the back burner (well, that and the fact that there’s just no way that I could ever recoup the time invested in doing one).

However, going with the Remote Desktop approach, it allows you to get all the power of Outlook without using an Exchange Server (which AFAIK, isn’t available for use on WHS – and even if it was, it’d cost a heck of a lot more than what WHS Outlook does). Any true web interface would probably pale by comparison IMHO.

– MIKE

That is indeed the case and I’ve mentioned it in the discussion of the beta going on in the forums (just hit the “Discuss” link in Terry’s message above in order to go there). Unfortunately, in order to run the Console application (and to connect remotely via Remote Desktop to the server), the user is required to have admin privileges. And, as you’ve found, Microsoft blocks users with admin rights from logging on to the built-in remote access web site. There’s not much I can do about that one I’m afraid.

What I do for my own family is to set up each member who requires access to both the remote access site and WHS Outlook two different user accounts (using the same password to make it easy for them). One account is then used to access the server’s remote access website, and the other is used to access WHS Outlook’s website. Also, just so everyone knows, the Administrator account itself can access WHS Outlook’s web access feature as well (i.e. you don’t have to setup a different user account for the admin). All you need to do is enter the admin user name and password in the WHS Outlook homepage.

– MIKE

Yes, when run in web access mode, the clicked link would indeed get opened in the default browser of the server (same goes for file attachments). Unfortunately, there’s no way to get the web access feature to communicate back with the client machine.

However, when WHS Outlook is run through the WHS Console (on a client machine where the connector has been installed), then URLs and file attachments will indeed open in the associated program on the client machine instead of on the server.

– MIKE (The Office Maven)