OWA issues with Firefox/Win Mobile   

Hi all, I am having 2 issues with OWA 2003

1) Firefox does not log the users ou tunless they close all of their firefox 
windows. - Is this expected bhanviour?

2) On a palm treo with Windows Mobile using IE, OWA never logs the user out. 
 I don't know if this is related to a setting on the device, or in the IE 
application itself.

Additionally, as an observation, both of these platforms by default use the 
"styandard" version of OWA.

Any insight is greatly appreciated.

date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 08:40:02 -0700   author:   Aro777

Re: OWA issues with Firefox/Win Mobile   

"Aro777"  wrote in message 
news:04157D4E-D115-4955-A46E-58436F76E944@microsoft.com...
> Hi all, I am having 2 issues with OWA 2003
>
> 1) Firefox does not log the users ou tunless they close all of their 
> firefox
> windows. - Is this expected bhanviour?
>
> 2) On a palm treo with Windows Mobile using IE, OWA never logs the user 
> out.
> I don't know if this is related to a setting on the device, or in the IE
> application itself.
>
> Additionally, as an observation, both of these platforms by default use 
> the
> "styandard" version of OWA.
>
> Any insight is greatly appreciated.

It was never possible to make a browser forget a set of credentials once the 
user had supplied them, unless the browser was completely closed.  IE6 added 
JavaScript functions to clear cached credentials, so OWA will probably make 
use of this if it detects that IE is being used.  However, for non-IE6 
browsers, it will probably not even make the attempt.

The problem with mobile browsers is that they never actually terminate, they 
continue to run 'in the background' until the device is reset, or until you 
manually terminate the task using a utility created for this purpose.

Lee.

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date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 16:57:22 +0100   author:   Lee Derbyshire [MVP] email a@t leederbyshire d.0.t c.0.m

Re: OWA issues with Firefox/Win Mobile   

Thank you kindly for your input.

-Adam

"Lee Derbyshire [MVP]" wrote:

> "Aro777"  wrote in message 
> news:04157D4E-D115-4955-A46E-58436F76E944@microsoft.com...
> > Hi all, I am having 2 issues with OWA 2003
> >
> > 1) Firefox does not log the users ou tunless they close all of their 
> > firefox
> > windows. - Is this expected bhanviour?
> >
> > 2) On a palm treo with Windows Mobile using IE, OWA never logs the user 
> > out.
> > I don't know if this is related to a setting on the device, or in the IE
> > application itself.
> >
> > Additionally, as an observation, both of these platforms by default use 
> > the
> > "styandard" version of OWA.
> >
> > Any insight is greatly appreciated.
> 
> It was never possible to make a browser forget a set of credentials once the 
> user had supplied them, unless the browser was completely closed.  IE6 added 
> JavaScript functions to clear cached credentials, so OWA will probably make 
> use of this if it detects that IE is being used.  However, for non-IE6 
> browsers, it will probably not even make the attempt.
> 
> The problem with mobile browsers is that they never actually terminate, they 
> continue to run 'in the background' until the device is reset, or until you 
> manually terminate the task using a utility created for this purpose.
> 
> Lee.
> 
> -- 
> ______________________________________
> 
> Outlook Web Access For PDA , OWA For WAP
> www.leederbyshire.com
> email a@t leederbyshire d.0.t c.0.m
> ______________________________________ 
> 
> 
>

date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:39:01 -0700   author:   Aro777