Access MailArchiver from Outlook Web Access 2007

There are a couple of gotcha's – you have to reauthenticate, and if you want to encrypt the mailarchiver traffic (strongly recommended) then you'll have to buy an additional SSL certificate, create a host record for your internet domain name and also have a spare static IP on your internet connection – it also only works in the full featured version of OWA, so internet explorer only i'm afraid.

This guide assumes the following....

1.You've created mailarchive.<your domain name>.com

2.You've bought and assigned the ssl certificate to your MailArchiver installation as in this guide http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID002670.

3.You've created the required firewall rules, and MailArchiver is accessable through https://mailarchive.<yourdomainname>.com from the internet, and also from your LAN.

We're going to be adding custom icons to the default OWA 2007 installation by editing the UIExtensions.xml file which is in the

<installation path>Exchange Server/ClientAccess/Owa/forms/Customization folder

There's a a UIExtensions.xml.template file, but don't use that – just use the below as a basis of the file... there are some items you'll need to change to make it work for your installation.

<OWAUICustomizations>
<MainNavigationBarExtensions>
<!-- Mail Archiver -->
<MainNavigationBarEntry LargeIcon="ArchiveLarge.gif" SmallIcon="ArchiveSmall.gif" URL="http://mailarchive.phillipstaylorbrown.com:443/mailarchive">
<string language="en-gb" text="MailArchive"/>
</MainNavigationBarEntry>
</MainNavigationBarExtensions>
</OWAUICustomizations>

There are 3 items you'll need to change, the first being the url, this has to match the working external url of your mail archiver website – you can see our url, just change it to match yours.

The second item you'll need to change is the language, this has to match your local in OWA, if it doesn't then the text will not show. The following is a list of some of the locales that are available; en-US, nl-NL, fr-FR, it-IT, de-DE, es-ES, tr-TR, ko-KR, pl-PL, cs-CZ, bg-BG, pt-PT, sl-SI, zh-CN, sk-SK, ru-RU, fy-NL, zh-TW, pt-BR, da-DK, lt-LT, ja-JP-mac, gl-ES, sq-AL, he-IL, en-GB, fa-IR, km-KH, uk-UA, hr-HR, be-BY, ro-RO, es-AR, hu-HU, nb-NO, fi-FI, ca-AD, ar, ml-IN, wa-BE, is-IS, mk-MK.

The third is the text, we've called it MailArchive, but you may want to change that if your users generally call it something else.

This file must be saved in the customization folder as UIExtensions.xml, the attached icons must also be saved in this folder – so your directory listing should look like this.

This should let your users access their archived mail from OWA directly, which plugs a bit of a hole in the current incarnation of the mighty MailArchiver!

If any of you guys need help performing the above customization, then drop us a line – we'll be happy to help!