Running Outlook Web Access on Vista
A colleague of mine had a problem today, sending emails through Outlook Web Access, while the web access URL was in he’s “Trusted sites” in IE 7.0.
A while ago, MS published an article, called “Replacing the DHTML Editing Control in Windows Vista and Beyond”.
If you click on the “New” button in Outlook Web Access, running Vista, you won’t be able to edit the body of the message – the window looks like this:
Essentially, the problem relates to a missing ActiveX control in Vista, which will not be a part of any Windows from now on. A quick search into the body of the HTML source of the page, finds a reference to the GUID of the ActiveX control.
It looks like this:
<OBJECT class="MSGBODY" classid="clsid:2D360201-FFF5-11D1-8D03-00A0C959BC0A"
You can find it around line #249.
I’m not aware of any plans by MS, on releasing a patch for Exchange. However, I believe that pretty soon (maybe around or after RTM for Vista) they will act on it.