Friday, November 6, 2009

red X when replying to email or sending new email via OWA on Exchange 2003

This problem happens when using IE8 to connect to an exchange 2003 OWA instance that isn't fully patched (and you can't get your admin to patch it)

This fix also works for IE8 crashing while using (exchange 2003) OWA when you hit Send on an email

I grabbed the latest S/MIME Controls setupmcl.exe from the KB924334

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=41275DEC-4C01-4C41-AA64-C9DBE5EA3F7E&displaylang=en


file version 5.3.18.6 for the executable, when installed its version 6.5.7651.60

Installed that on my Windows 7/ IE8 machine and OWA now works again.