What is Outlook Web Access (OWA)? How does it work?

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Outlook Web Access is a full-featured, web-based email client with the look and feel of the Outlook client. With OWA, users can access their mailboxes from any Internet connection regardless of whether or not the computer is equipped with Outlook.

OWA provides most of the same functionality found in Outlook, including the familiar, easy-to-use interface, and the essential tools needed to create professional email (spell check, signatures, HTML support and more).

In addition to email, OWA allows users to access their calendars, contacts, tasks and folders through a secure connection, just like they would in the office. Users can also search their old email, set up or edit out of office notifications, manage junk mail settings, and more.

OWA also supports a wide range of file types including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint slides, PDF files and more. With OWA, users can access these file types even if the program the file is derived from isn’t installed on their computer.

Kishmish hosted Exchange customers can access their mailbox through OWA by navigating to the OWA portal and entering their email address and password.

Link to OWA portal: https://owa.msoutlookonline.net