{"id":92,"date":"2009-04-09T16:14:44","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T16:14:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-09T16:15:39","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T16:15:39","slug":"owa_2007_document_access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"OWA 2007 Document Access"},"content":{"rendered":"

As discussed at our OU Admin Day event, OWA 2007 has the ability to offer read-only <\/strong>access to campus Windows file-servers from a web browser. This is a handy alternative to Webfolders, FTP and RAS and of course is accessible from anywhere.<\/p>\n

This feature is only available with OWA 2007 Premium and subsequently Internet Explorer is the only supported browser. Hopefully Microsoft will remedy this with the next version of Exchange Server.<\/p>\n

We need to enable any file-servers in an ‘allow list’ on the Exchange Client Access servers before users can access them. We can add school file-servers within reason. Please speak to your School Computing Officer and get them to contact helpline with a request. <\/p>\n

At present the following servers are enabled:<\/p>\n

All Tower servers
\nAll Turret servers
\ncrag.ncl.ac.uk
\ncampus.ncl.ac.uk – This is a DFS name space allowing access to towers\/turrets\/software and high availability servers.<\/p>\n

To access:<\/p>\n

Log on to OWA 2007 as normal<\/p>\n

From the left hand menu buttons, Select ‘Documents’: <\/p>\n

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Select ‘Open Location’ from the left hand menu: <\/p>\n

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A Box will appear where you can enter a path to a file server. As an example I have included the correct format for access to your home directory. Replace the ‘X’ with whichever tower and home share that your home directory resides.<\/p>\n

Example: \\\\tower3.ncl.ac.uk\\home17\\njwd <\/p>\n

It is important that the location you want to open is prefixed with the two forward slashes in standard UNC format and the server name is fully qualified with .ncl.ac.uk <\/p>\n

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If you have the appropriate permissions to open that location, you should be presented with the contents of that file-share in the right hand pane:<\/p>\n

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Item 1: ‘Open in Windows Explorer’ will only work whilst on campus, but will open a Windows Explorer window to the directory that you currently have selected.
\nItem 2: Lets you go up the directory structure, if you have permission to do so.
\nItem 3: Adds the current location to the ‘Favorites Menu’ as depicted in item 5.
\nItem 4: Is a breadcrumb style link to your current location. Click on any of the parts separated by slashes to go to that level, if you have permission to do so.
\nItem 5: Lists ‘favorite” places that you have added. <\/p>\n

Double clicking on a folder will take you to the contents of that folder.<\/p>\n

Double clicking on a file will try to open that file natively on your computer, should you have the application that can open it.<\/p>\n

If you right click a file a context sensitive menu will appear:
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Selecting ‘Open’ will try and open the file as if you have double clicked it. <\/p>\n

If you select ‘Open as Web Page’, OWA will try and interpret the contents of that file and display it in a web-page. This is particularly handy if you are on a computer without Microsoft Office, but need to read an Office Document. The supported file types include (doc, pdf, pps, ppt, rtf and xls).<\/p>\n

Selecting ‘Send by E-Mail’ opens a new mail message in OWA and automatically includes the file as an attachment.<\/p>\n

‘Copy Shortcut’, copies the UNC path of the file to the computer clipboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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