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 NAME:    AddNewNavbarButton.Readme.txt
 VERSION: 1.00 - 03/23/2004 Initial release

For the latest version and information, check:
http://playground.doesntexist.org/

 DESCRIPTION:

This modification adds a new navigation bar button to the OWA 2003 rich client UI navigation pane.
You can use this to add for example a link to your company homepage to Outlook Web Access 2003.
It has been tested and will run with Internet Explorer 5.0 (and above) only.

 NOTE:

This Exchange 2003 OWA tweak is unsupported by Microsoft. If you are running into problems you
might need to revert back to to the backup done before applying this tweak. It has been tested with
Exchange 2003 OWA RTM US-English and might not work with any other version of Exchange 2003.

 CONTENTS:

- The JavaScript file "vw_Navbar.js" containing JScript and HTML code to modify the OWA 2003 navigation pane.
- This readme text "AddNewNavbarButton.Readme.txt" file.

 INSTALL:

1.  Logon to your Exchange server computer.
2.  Unzip all files into a directory "C:\AddNewNavbarButton\" on the above computer.
3.  Locate the Exchange server 2003 installation directory (usually "C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr").
4.  Locate the folder "exchweb\6.5.6944.0\controls".
6.  Make a backup copy of the existing file "vw_Navbar.js".
7.  Replace the existing file with the new "vw_Navbar.js" extracted to the folder in step #2.
8.  Do an "iisreset" from the command line (note: this will kick out all OWA users).
9.  Clear your local browser cache.

 UNINSTALL:

1.  Logon to your Exchange server computer.
2.  Locate the directory "C:\AddNewNavbarButton\" on the above computer.
    NOTE: If you have used a different directory or drive you need to change to this one instead.
3.  Locate the Exchange server 2003 installation directory (usually "C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr".
4.  Locate the folder "exchweb\6.5.6944.0\controls".
6.  Replace the existing file with the backup copy of "vw_Navbar.js" you made previously.
7.  Do an "iisreset" from the command line (note: this will kick out all OWA users).
8.  Clear your local browser cache.

 CONFIGURATION:

By default the navigation pane button opens a new browser window and loads www.microsoft.com. To change this to your own site open the file
"vw_Navbar.js" and locate the line:

var sNewQuery = "http://www.microsoft.com";

Replace the url with your own and save the file.

 OPERATION:

Open Internet Explorer and log on to your Exchange 2003 Outlook Web Access mailbox. Then click on the "Company Home" navigation pane button.

 TROUBLESHOOTING:

If the navigation pane button does not show up on the client computer try to clear the Internet Explorer browser cache.
Make sure that you use Internet Explorer 5.0 or above and you are connected to your Outlook Web Access machine in rich/premium client mode.
