RE: OWA and PDF attachments

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I have had problems like this, and it ended up being a Adobe Reader browser
plugin problem and changing a setting fixed it. I had to set it to open the
attachment in Adobe Reader itself and not in the browser plugin.

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Matthew Tisdel
South Carolina


"Mike24601" wrote:

> I am running SBS 2003 and using Outlook Web Access (OWA). When users open a
> .doc attachment, it opens the attachment in Word, and the user is happy.
>
> However, when a user tries to open a .PDF attachment, they get sent to a
> blank HTML page. Anyone know if it's possible to make OWA open these files
> in Acrobat Reader? If it is, how?
>
> Thanks!
.

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