Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Exchange OWA and Firefox

Very Interesting....

If you use Firefox to display Exchange calendars through OWA, then it should come as no surprise that Microsoft makes your "user experience" as painful as possible. I've found that, when you are in the "daily" view, the Exchange server sends wrong data for the "all day" events for that day. It looks like Exchange is incorrectly figuring the dates, and bleeds the events from one date over to the next date. (For example, if my event is on the 19th, it will show up on both the 19th and the 20th.)

If you switch back to the Weekly view, then Exchange actually sends the correct data for Monday - Friday, but events on Saturday and Sunday just vanish.

(Also, Exchange renders "weeks" on Firefox as Sunday-Saturday. On IE, it renders "weeks" as Monday-Sunday.)

So, if you use Firefox to view calendars, then Exchange dumbs-down the interface and scrambles the data for you.

Gotta love it.

:-(

1 comment:

Steven Tryon said...

And Google cries all the way to the bank.