AttachWay FAQ

AttachWay for OWA or Microsoft Outlook Web Access is a powerful enhancement that allows OWA users to access their corporate shares to locate and find files and documents to send as attachments with their OWA emails. Without AttachWay users can only access and browse the local hard drive in the remote workstation they are working on. The AttachWay for OWA enhancement allows users to be remote and still access files and documents stored behind the firewall. No downloads are required for attachments.

All OWA users will appreciate the additional functionality that AttachWay delivers. AttachWay increases employee productivity using OWA anywhere. More then 60% of users send corporate documents with emails. AttachWay will allow them to carry out their business Everywhere.

AttachWay increases corporate security and employee productivity. Users no longer need carry with them portable drives or download documents from the corporate portal only to upload them again to the Exchange server. The act of leaving corporate documents behind on un-trusted workstations is highly controversial. From a productivity standpoint AttachWay fills a very large OWA function gap by allowing employees to access their internal documents from within OWA.

From OWA’s attachment button an AttachWay button is added. The user can browse locally or their internal shares. It’s completely web based and transparent to the user. They web interface is windows like and allows the user to navigate through their directories and folders to locate files and documents to send. Double clicking on a document attaches it to the message body, that’s it! No down or uploading required. The user can choose to rename the document of delete it if they later wish from the message body.

Borrowing heavily from our FileWay technology AttachWay has 3 server components. AttachWay OWA interface, backend server and SecureView server. It’s all very transparent to the user.

Typically users are granted access to the same file and network resources they have access to internally. Generally based on Active Directory settings the user by default has the same access privileges. Administration may set a variety of additional rules to reduce the access rights.

The two products largely share the same core components and depending on what product is installed 1st the 2nd only takes a few moments to configure. They both allow the end user to access the same file and network shares. Albeit for separate purposes; FileWay allows users to upload, download view and to manage their documents, AttachWay allows them to browse their shares locate files and attach them to the OWA message body. Many of our existing FileWay customers using OWA will appreciate the added security and advantages of AttachWay.

Yes SecureView is built into AttachWay but not to be confused with our SecureView for OWA provided for received Attachment viewing. SecureView is our secure document viewing technology. This built-in technology is more then a feature it handles the issue of downloading documents and leaving them behind on untrusted workstations. The SecureView built-in to AttachWay allows for the pre-viewing of documents and files prior to attaching them to the message body rather SecureView for OWA allows for the secure viewing of received OWA attachments. We plan to bundle both products in the near term.

Beyond browsing shares to locate and attach files. Users also have the ability to save existing attachments to their internal shares, Users may securely preview files before attaching them. This is useful to ensure you are send the correct document and version. Create/delete new folders, change the folder views to assist in locating files, delete file, cut/copy/paste file etc.

Yes, AttachWay is deeply integrated into MS Outlook Web Access and utilizes the security infrastructure applied to it including; authentication, passwords, session encryption etc.

Yes. AttachWay relies on the same FileWay management wizard to quickly allow administrators to set up and map user and group files to their folders and shares. AttachWay is very flexible in its ability to meet a wide range of enterprise system and security architectures.