Outlook Web Access URLs

There’s a nice blog entry on blogs.technet.com (from way back in 2003) describing the the URL parameter for accessing web-based views of Outlook using OWA (Outlook Web Access). I’m quoting some of his great examples below.

Iif you want to point at a public folder, you can embed it into a separate web page with an IFRAME:

<iframe width=800 height=400 src="http://myserver/public/mypublicfolder/?cmd=contents">

This displays the list of items and the view (which includes the reading pane) for that public folder. If you want to specify the view that should be used, just append the name of the view as another URL parameter:

<iframe width=800 height=400 src="http://myserver/public/mypublicfolder/?cmd=contents&view=Two%20Line%20View">

You can also specify the view for another folder type, such as a calendar folder. The following URL will display this week's calendar (which could be really useful to embed onto a home page for your browser, to get a quick glance at your calendar without requiring you to go to OWA):

<iframe width=800 height=400 src="http://myserver/exchange/username/calendar/?cmd=contents&view=weekly">

To go to a specific day in your calendar (or any calendar folder), using my son's birthday as an example:

<iframe width=800 height=400 src="http://myserver/exchange/username/calendar/?cmd=contents&d=8&m=6&y=2003">