Outlook 2007 serves as a great client application for e-mail, but on occasion, you might want to use a simpler method of accessing your messages. For example, you might be out of town unexpectedly, without your computer, and realize that you need to read an important message. Or perhaps you’d like to check your office e-mail from home but don’t have your Outlook 2007 configuration installed on your home computer. Whatever the case, Exchange Server supports access to your Exchange Server mailbox through OWA.

Using OWA or Outlook Anywhere to access your Exchange Server mailbox doesn’t require extensive configuration. You simply point your Web browser to the URL on the server that provides access to your mailbox. The URL varies according to how OWA is configured on the server, in addition to a few other considerations.