XCLN: How to Activate URLs by Default
Article ID: 147359
Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Outlook, Exchange Server Edition
- Microsoft Exchange Client 5.5, when used with:
- Microsoft Exchange Client 5.0, when used with:
This article was previously published under Q147359
SUMMARY
For performance reasons, the Windows 16-bit Microsoft Exchange client does
not activate URLs by default. This can be changed by adding an [Options]
section to the Windows\Exchng.ini file to contain this line:
browser=c:\path\iexplore.exe
The browser line should point to the preferred browser. After this has been
done, you will need to restart your computer.
MORE INFORMATION
You might notice that URLs appear hot even though the browser line is not
present in their Exchng.Ini file. The action of reading a message with a
URL enclosed is what activates the URL. If another client has previously
read the message and forwarded it to the Microsoft Exchange Win16 client,
the link will be hot but the client will still be unable to jump to the URL
because a browser has not been configured.
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