I am running Windows Vista at Home with IE7

When logging on the microsoft exchange webmail access for the works email server I am having problems.

The log in goes fine, and I can read emails fine, however, if I try to reply or write an email I get a little white box with a red cross where I should write the email.

Any ideas?

tools -> pop up blocker -> pop up blocker settings. add your works webmail addres to the "address of websites to allow"

fixed it on mine but it may well need something else doing

Its IE7 at fault im afraid..

theres actually a patch that needs to be applied to the exchange frontend servers to fix it :thumbdwn:

iirc if you use basic mode (if you have the option) that works ok..

I use basic mode all the time as its M$'s way of crippling you if you dont use IE (i use firefox and it doesnt allow the fancy mode)

Right, thanks for the response. Time to pester IT and see if they know what a server is, let alone how to update it.

give them this linky...

The Compose Message form stops responding after you install Internet Explorer 7.0 and the S/MIME control on an Outlook Web Access client in Exchange Server 2003

if you have downloaded the vista updates this problem should have be resolved... it did on mine anyway

This is one of the many reasons for us threatening to beat users with big sticks if they install IE7 on their work laptops.

Obviously what they do on their home machines is their business.. will make a note of this for the future, thanks for the heads up.

This is one of the many reasons for us threatening to beat users with big sticks if they install IE7 on their work laptops.

You need a reason to beat users?? :confused:

Had the same issue accessing the servers at work, but as I am the techie I installed the patch mentioned ealier on the frontend exchange server and can confirm this fixes the problem.

The issue is not IE7 but vista. Normal IE7 on XP doesnt exhibit the problem. When MS released Vista they left out one or two parts of activex for security reasons, and broke OWA in the process, hence the patch.

This is one of the many reasons for us threatening to beat users with big sticks if they install IE7 on their work laptops.

Obviously what they do on their home machines is their business.. will make a note of this for the future, thanks for the heads up.

Mozilla Firefox download - EU

Sorted :thumbup:

Mozilla Firefox download - EU

Sorted :thumbup:

Although firefox works ok'ish with OWA, it only runs in basic mode, which also works fine in vista and IE7. You cannot run the enhanced outlook style interface in firefox as it supports even less activex controls than IE7 on vista.

You need a reason to beat users?? :confused:

Yes, unfortunately.