Simon Barratt

Notes URI support in Outlook Web Access

One of the issues we had/have during our migration to Outlook was DocLinks.  How do we keep application created DocLinks working for the Outlook client?

Standard DocLinks kinda work in the Outlook 2003 client, if you configure the Notes Exchange connector to use OLE.  However as soon as you use the OLE option that just creates an icon that does nothing in the OWA client.

It would be nice if the Exchange 2003 connector offered a notes:// URI option, when converting the DocLinks.  We thought that maybe modifying the key applications that have OWA users, we could change from DocLinks and place a notes:// URI in the document instead.  Alas, OWA does not recognise this format, which is very disappointing!

Well, after pushing long and hard Microsoft have finally released a hotfix to help.  By installing the fix on the Exchange 2003 server, notes URI's are supposedly supported with OWA.  This comes close to what I was looking for.  Basically, you can programmatically add a link as shown below and have this be recognised as a valid link in OWA.  So for anyone looking ease coexistence concerns with Notes Applications and Outlook email this may help.

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Here's a link:  [A HREF="notes://servername"]notes://servername[/A]
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