Outlook on the web

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Outlook on the web (formerly called Exchange Web Connect, Outlook Web Access, and Outlook Web App in Office 365 and Exchange Server 2013) is a personal information management web app from Microsoft. These are included in Office 365, Exchange Server, and Exchange Online. This includes web-based email clients, calendar tools, contact manager, and task manager. It also includes additional integration, Skype on the web, and integrated warnings and themes that extend across web applications. Outlook on the web is navigated using the App Launcher icon which decreases the list of web apps users can choose. In 2015, Microsoft began upgrading Outlook.com to use Outlook on the web and the Office 365 infrastructure, which was almost completed in January 2017 after lowering new Outlook.com from preview.

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Outlook Mail

Outlook Mail is an Outlook webmail component on the web. It has an interface similar to the mail section of the previous Outlook Web App. The default view is a three-column view with folders and groups on the left, email in the middle, and to the right of the selected message. In Outlook 2015 on web updates, Microsoft introduced the ability to embed messages, sweeps, archives, undo, and richer image editing features. Outlook Mail adds the ability to connect to other services such as GitHub and Twitter via Office 365 Connectors. Actionable Messages in emails let users complete tasks from within email, like retweeting Tweets on Twitter or setting up a meeting date on a calendar.

Outlook on the web supports S/MIME and includes features for managing calendars, contacts, tasks, documents (used with SharePoint or Office Web App), and other mailbox content. In the Exchange 2007 release, Outlook on the web (still called Outlook Web App at the time) also offers read-only access to documents stored on SharePoint sites and UNC networks.

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Outlook Calendar

The Outlook Calendar is the component of the Outlook calendar on the web. With updates, Microsoft added weather forecasts directly in Calendar, as well as icons (or "charms") as visual cues to an event. In addition, email reminders come to all events, and special Birthday and Holiday events calendars are automatically generated. Calendars can be shared and there are multiple views such as day, week, month, and day. Another view is a working week that covers Mondays to Fridays in calendar view.

Calendar details can be added with rich HTML and rich text editing, and files can be attached to calendar events and appointments.

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Outlook People

Outlook People is a component of Outlook contact manager on the web. A user can search and edit an existing contact, and create a new one. Contacts can be placed into folders and duplicate contacts can be linked from various sources such as LinkedIn or Twitter. In Outlook Mail, contacts can be created by clicking on the sender of the email address, which pulls the contact card with the add button to add to Outlook People. Contacts can be imported and placed into a list that can be used when writing emails in Outlook Mail.

Outlook People can also sync with friends and connection lists on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

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Outlook Task

The Outlook task is part of the Outlook Calendar (originally called Calendar in Outlook.com) as a view. Since then, Microsoft has separated its services into its own application in Outlook on the web. In a post at Blog Office in 2015, Microsoft announced that Outlook Web App would be renamed to Outlook on the web and that Tasks would move under the brand. Users can create tasks, put them into categories, and move them to other folders. The added features are the ability to set up the day it should be and sort and filter the task according to the criteria. The Outlook task provides users with fields such as subject, start and end date, percent completion, priority, and how much work is put into each task. Rich editing features like bold, italic, underline, numbering, and bullet points are also introduced. Tasks can be edited and categorized according to the user's desire to be sorted.

History

The Outlook task was originally launched as a Task for Outlook Web App. Microsoft is slowly launching Outlook Tasks previews to its consumer-based Outlook.com service which, in May 2015, was announced to move into the Office 365 infrastructure. Outlook's original task was to display in Calendar as part of Outlook.com.

Features

The Outlook task lets users create, manage, edit, and delete tasks they do not want on their calendars. They can set the due date, priority, start date, the person involved, and the percentage is completed.

Other features include repetition settings, reminders, task settings for personal, milage, billing, and company.

Users can also set the total work and actual work in hours, minutes, days, or weeks.

Tasks can be sorted by all, done, active, and too late and due dates, start date, status, subject, attachment, priority, and type. Oldest or newest can be set up.

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Former feature

Outlook on the web has two interfaces available: one with a full feature set (known as Premium) and one with lower functionality (known as Light or Lite sometimes). Prior to Exchange 2010, Premium clients needed Internet Explorer. Exchange 2000 and 2003 require Internet Explorer 5 and later, and Exchange 2007 requires Internet Explorer 6 and later. Exchange 2010 supports more web browsers: Internet Explorer 7 or later, Mozilla Firefox 3.01 or later, Google Chrome, or Apple Safari 3.1 or later for full functionality. However, Exchange 2010 limits Firefox and Safari support for OS X and Linux, making Google Chrome only an option for Windows users. Exchange 2013 includes both Google Chrome and Linux support and browser restrictions no longer matter.

In all versions of Exchange before 2010, the Light user interface is displayed for browsers other than Internet Explorer. The basic interface does not support searching in Exchange Server 2003. The Light interface is then reworked for Exchange Server 2007; OWA Light then supports mail item search, and manage contacts and calendars are also enhanced. In version 2010, users can connect to external email accounts.

Outlook on the web competes with options provided by other companies such as Google Apps or Yahoo! Business Letters, and alternatives that are installed locally to Exchange servers such as Zimbra, Kolab, Zarafa, or Scalix.

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Office 365 and Exchange server

Outlook on the web is included with a subscription to Office 365 or with a local Exchange Server purchase.

History

Outlook Web Access was created in 1995 by Microsoft Program Manager Thom McCann on the Exchange Server team. The early work version was demonstrated by Microsoft Vice President Paul Maritz at the top of the famous Microsoft Internet in Seattle on December 27, 1995. The first customer version was shipped as part of the Exchange Server 5.0 release in early 1997.

The first component that allows client-side script to issue an HTTP request (XMLHTTP) was originally written by the Outlook Web Access team. It soon became part of Internet Explorer 5.0. Replaced XMLHttpRequest and standard by the World Wide Web Consortium, has since become one of the pillars of Ajax technology used to build sophisticated web applications.

Outlook Web Access was later renamed to Outlook Web App. Update on August 4, 2015 renamed OWA to "Outlook on the web".

Distribution

Microsoft provides Outlook on the web as part of Office 365 and Exchange Server or Exchange Online, to allow users to connect to their email accounts through a web browser, without requiring the installation of Microsoft Outlook or other email clients. In the case of Exchange Server, it is hosted on a local intranet and requires a network connection to the Exchange Server so that users can work with e-mail, address book, calendar and tasks. The Exchange Online version, which can be purchased either independently or through the Office 365 licensing program, is hosted on Microsoft servers on the world wide web at login.microsoftonline.com.

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See also

• List of collaborative software

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References

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External links

• Official website
• The Exchange Team Blog
• Outlook.com

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