Some advanced functionality includes linking, which joins contacts with the same or alike names as a single contact. Users can search and edit existing contacts, create new contacts and find new contacts through services such as LinkedIn or Twitter. People: People is the name of the contact manager in Outlook on the web. Microsoft also added a weather forecast feature and new icons for certain events, such as an airplane to indicate a business trip. Users can share calendars and set up reminders to arrive via email. There are now multiple options to view the calendar, such as a view for the full week, work week, month and day. Image features include emoji support and hiding image-based advertisements in preview.Ĭalendar: Microsoft's updates to Outlook on the web in 2015 added new features to the calendar. The Sweep feature handles advanced delete functions, such as deleting all messages from the inbox, automatic removal of future messages from certain senders, keeping just the most recent messages, or retaining just email from the past 10 days. Pins keep selected messages at the top of the inbox. The Outlook on the web interface features three panes to find and read email.Įmail: The user interface in Outlook on the web is similar to previous versions of the web-based Outlook client but with newer functionality added in 2015, such as pins, Sweep and image editing. Outlook on the web offers a well-structured email service with calendar functionality, while providing features such as contact management in the Outlook People page and assignment administration with the Outlook Tasks feature.

In 2015, Microsoft changed the browser client name to 'Outlook on the web' and updated it for use with Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Online in Office 365. Microsoft also called the browser-based app Outlook Web Access and Exchange Web Connect with earlier versions of Exchange Server. Microsoft named this client Outlook Web App (OWA) when using it with Exchange Server 2010 and Exchange Server 2013. Outlook on the web provides an interface similar to Microsoft Outlook in the Office Suite without requiring the installation of the full desktop email client.

Outlook on the web is the browser-based email client for users to access email, calendars, tasks and contacts from Microsoft's on-premises Exchange Server and cloud-based Exchange Online.

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