Microsoft Exchange Server 2013: Connectivity, Clients, and UM

Managing Outlook Web App

Users don’t typically think of Outlook Web App as an application on its own; they think, “Oh, it’s the webpage I use to get email.” Exchange administrators, however, know quite well that Outlook Web App is a separate application that runs under Internet Information Server (IIS); its role is to retrieve user mail data, display it, and interact with the user. In Exchange 2013, Outlook Web App only runs on Mailbox servers, so some of the ways we interact with and manage it as administrators have changed from previous versions. The primary vehicle for changing Outlook Web App settings is the Outlook Web App virtual directory created during installation of the Mailbox role; you will become quite adept at using Set-OWAVirtualDirectory ...