OWANotify.exe - The Outlook Web Access tray icon.

OWANotify.exe - The Outlook Web Access tray icon

Outlook Web Access New Mail Notification


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Requirements

  • .NET Framework from Microsoft: Download details: .NET Framework Version 1.1 Redistributable Package (or higher)
  •         -This is supposedly included with new Windows XP SP2 installations now
  • Exchange Outlook Web Access account via NTLM or Forms Based Authentication
  • Knowledge of Inbox URI:
  •         -Examples:  http://server/exchange/username/inbox or https://server/exchange/username/inbox
  • Internet Explorer (Currently OWANotify launches IE instances for mailbox viewing. Other browser support is unplanned at this time because browsers like Firefox, Netscape, Opera <?> can only load the "Basic" OWA Client, which is offers a poor OWA experience)
  • See FAQs for usage tips

Send me an email at envador@envador.com if you want to be notified when a new version is available.

Download

(Most recent file first)
 
Date/Time File Updates
5/13/2006 10:35PM PDT OWANotify20060513.zip
  • New Option! Specify the window size of both the OWA mailbox AND message windows
    • If you have a high-resolution screen, having the OWA mailbox window open in all its fullscreen glory might be a bit excessive.  Now you can specify what size window you want OWANotify to use when viewing your OWA mailbox.  You can still leave it as 0 (default) to always have it open maximized.
  • Added "Create New" option to the right-click menu - opens a window to compose a new message.
  • Added "Last Unread" option to the right-click menu - shows a popup of the last unread message.
  • Fixed a bug with the initial release of window size not sizing FBA login sessions. (oops!)

 

5/11/2006 11:59PM PDT OWANotify20060511.zip
  • New Option! Specify the size of the OWA mailbox window.
    • If you have a high-resolution screen, having the OWA mailbox window open in all its fullscreen glory might be a bit too much.  Now you can specify what size window you want OWANotify to use when viewing your OWA mailbox.  You can leave it as 0 (default) to always have it open maximized.
  • Minor Bug Fix: Some users had problems with the delete mail button on the new mail popup.  This issue has been resolved.

 

1/10/2006 3:16PM PST OWANotify20060110.zip
  • OWANotify is now just one .exe!  I used ILMerge.exe from Michael Barnett at Microsoft Research to combine the original OWANotify.exe with the Interop.SHDocVw.dll into a single executable.  This should make OWANotify.exe even easier to work with.
  • Proxy support completed.  OWANotify will now use the same proxy settings as IE uses.
  • New Command Line Option: -BasicAuth
    • -BasicAuth forces OWANotify to also send Outlook Web Access username and password as plain text when authenticating.  Security concerns aside, some OWA servers are set to only allow basic, even though NTLM is the preferred method of authentication on non-FBA, non-SSL enabled configurations.  I added -BasicAuth as a courtesy for those who had no choice in how their sysadmins configure the Exchange Servers.

 

12/07/2005 1:54PM PST OWANotify12071216.zip
  • Extremely BETA.  I've been getting questions from people getting the error message "The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust with remote server."   This was caused by SSL certificate oddities on the target Exchange server.  I've added code to bypass security certificate warnings that a user would normally have clicked "yes" to continue.  I say this is extremely BETA because I was in the middle of adding default Proxy support in OWA.  Yes, proxy support is only halfway implemented in this release, but I don't think the majority of users will be affected by this.  I think more people will be needing to use OWA from outside normal work environments these next few holiday weeks, so a release of a version that works better with SSL certificates was in order.  You can always use the more stable 10101534 if you want.
10/10/2005 1:54PM PDT OWANotify10101354.zip
  • Major re-writing of how OWANotify gets text for labels and messages. This is added in anticipation for additional language support.
  • f https (SSL) found in URI, non-Forms Based Authentication will also include credentials as Basic in addition to the standard NTLM auth. It seems like certain systems use a combination of Basic+SSL to protect their OWA. Plain http URI's will continue to only authenticate with NTLM (since this at least has some encryption built-in)
07/24/2005 12:19PM PDT OWANotify07241219.zip
  • Improved memory usage
  • Hide settings form on startup. (only show if password not saved; auto-hides on login success)
  • Startup option to start OWANotify automatically (adds a shortcut to startup folder)
  • Deleting option to delete permanently or delete to "Deleted Items" folder
  • Deleting option to skip confirmation when deleting
06/27/2005 01:07AM PDT OWANotify06270107.zip
  • New Options tab. User-configurable popup timings.
  • Fix logout time issues with OWA browser sessions using Forms Based Authentication.
  • Fix issues with random disconnect icon (even though connected).
  • No more verification of URI and Domain fields (rules were too strict, just use your own judgment from now on)
06/13/2005 01:31AM PDT OWANotify06130131.zip
  • Password saving now optional
  • Enhanced new mail notification popup allows for reply, delete and direct message viewing from popup box:
      -Click on Subject to open a new window direct to message.
      -Click on window title to open window to OWA Inbox
      -Click on Reply icon to open to reply to message.
      -Click on Delete icon to delete message (confirms before delete)
  • Tag gets its own line in popups.
06/12/2005 11:31PM PDT OWANotify06122331.zip
  • Found a bug in this release with IE Window reuse. See next Build
06/05/2005 10:22PM PDT OWANotify06052222.zip
  • Support for custom config files
      -Usage: OWANotify.exe -c k:\myconfig.xml
  • Optional "Tag" allows up to 15 characters of text to tag tool tips and popup windows.
05/27/2005 09:23AM PDT OWANotify05270923.zip
  • Improved new mail notification behavior
  • Launched or Reused OWA windows run maximized.
     
05/24/2005 02:26PM PDT OWANotify05240226.zip
  • Re-Upload of OWANotify.exe .zip package including the Interop.SHDocVw.dll which was missing from the 5/23 update.
     
05/23/2005 02:56AM PDT OWANotify05230256.zip
  • Better tray icon behavior for detecting unread and new items.
  • Double-click system tray icon to launch OWA.
  • Click popup to launch OWA.
  • Tray Icon right-click menu similar to Google Gmail Notifier.
     
05/09/2005 11:21PM PDT OWANotify05092321.zip
  • Password is now saved encrypted in config file

© 2005 

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