I was looking to display a generic users’ inbox in a web page on my SharePoint farm. This is typically a service mailbox that people need to dip into from time to time and also send emails from. Research provided a few pointers but did not provide the entire answer I was looking for.
The standard OOTB OWA web part is fine for displaying the root inbox, but is limited when trying to display sub folders and the ‘New’ button. For this you will need to display the full OWA page.
This is simple to achieve by amending the web part and adding ?cmd=contents after the mailbox of the inbox you want to be displayed (shown below).
Assuming you have access to the mailbox the whole OWA web page will be displayed on the page. More information on additional commends when displaying OWA pages can be found here.
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24/09/2010 at 5:15 pm
brian
Hi,
How do you display inbox of current user logging into sharepoint. thanks,
25/09/2010 at 5:52 pm
Gareth M Davies
You should be able to this quite easily with the OOTB web part. Insert the exchange server in the first section and away you go.
08/10/2011 at 12:26 am
Scottie Sharpe
Sorry to comment on a dead message. However when I attempt to add a Outlook web part, I do not see any web parts. I’m running Sharepoint on Small Business Server 2008.