By using the Microsoft Office 365 web-based email application, Microsoft Outlook Web App (OWA), you can manage your email and calendar when you don’t have access to the Outlook application, but it also does a great deal more.

Both Outlook and OWA show the the contents of your Office 365 Exchange Online account, and, in many ways, they look and operate alike. For example, if you find a misplaced message in your Outlook junk mail folder, you can right-click the message and mark it as safe. This updates a safe list that is also available in OWA and shows up in both programs. In addition, folders you create in your OWA Inbox appear in Outlook.

Even though OWA and Outlook display the same information in many cases, they are different applications with different features, configurations, and capabilties. For example, Outlook signatures are not applied to mail you send from OWA. OWA has its own signature capability, meaning that if you use both services, you need to configure a separate signature in each. Plus, Outlook has many more features and capabilites for managing mail. Even so, because OWA is actually part of Microsoft Exchange Online, OWA has several unique features. For example, in OWA you can force a remote wipe of your cell phone in case it is lost or stolen, create public groups, and connect accounts to periodically bring mail from other services to your Office 365 inbo....