OWA 2003 default options

[Sumner Paine]

Is there a way to globally set the OWA default options in Exchange 2003?

I'm referring to options such as whether an item is marked as read when the
selection changes, and number of items to display per page, etc.

[Lofote]

You can do it via a VBS script, here is my script which sets the signature
(which it reads from a network share for every user), doesn't auto-mark as
read and stuff like that.
You can call it with "cscript <username>". Of course you can change it so
that enumerates all your Exchange users and goes loops through all of them.
I call it every 30 minutes for all users using a scheduled task.

---
If WScript.Arguments.Count<>0 Then
WScript.Echo "Processing "+WScript.Arguments(0)+"..."
username=WScript.Arguments(0)
signature_path="\\iff-server\usersettings$\"+username+"\Outlook\signature."
signature_html=""
signature_text=""
Set fs=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

If fs.FileExists(signature_path+"htm") Then
Set a = fs.OpenTextFile(signature_path+"htm")
add=False
while not a.AtEndOfStream
x=a.ReadLine
If add Then signature_html=signature_html+x
If x="<!-- Converted from text/plain format -->" Then add=True
wend
a.Close
End If

If fs.FileExists(signature_path+"txt") Then
Set a = fs.OpenTextFile(signature_path+"txt")
signature_text=a.ReadAll
a.Close
End If

rem Update Exchange OWA
Dim oRec
Set oRec=CreateObject("ADODB.Record")
With oRec
.Open "file://./backofficestorage/iff.uni-stuttgart.de/MBX/"+username,,3
.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/previewmarkasread")=2
.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/autoaddsignature")=True
.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/quicklinks")=1

.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/signaturetext")=signature_tex
t

.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/signaturehtml")=signature_htm
l
.Fields.Update
.Close
End With
Set oRec = Nothing
End If
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"Sumner Paine" <sum...@attbi.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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[Ben Winzenz [Exchange MVP]]

You might also look at the new OWA Web Admin plug-in that is now available
from Microsoft. I haven't looked at it too much, so I don't know exactly
which options are available, but it might be worth a shot. Here's the link
to the download on the MS site.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4bbe7065-a04e-43ca-8220-859212411e10&DisplayLang=en

--
Ben Winzenz
Exchange MVP
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[Sumner Paine]

This OWA Admin tool looks great, but it won't let me change any of the
options... everything is greyed out no matter which account I use to login
to the tool...

"Ben Winzenz [Exchange MVP]" <ben_winzenz@NOSPAMdotmessageonedotcom> wrote
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