Prerequisites for OWA

You can configure OWA access to Enterprise Vault after you have set up your Enterprise Vault server for Exchange Server archiving. The instructions for configuring OWA access to Enterprise Vault assume that you have already configured OWA on Exchange Servers.

To provide OWA 2000 or OWA 2003 access, install Enterprise Vault OWA 2000 or OWA 2003 Extensions on front-end and back-end Exchange Servers. To provide OWA 2007 access, install the Enterprise Vault OWA 2007 Extensions on Exchange Server 2007 with Client Access Server (CAS) role installed.

All the Exchange Servers on which you install the Enterprise Vault OWA Extensions should be at the same Exchange Server service pack and hotfix level.

When you install the Enterprise Vault OWA Extensions on your Exchange Servers, ensure that you install the same Enterprise Vault release version of the extensions on all the Exchange Servers.

The following are additional requirements for accessing Enterprise Vault from OWA clients: