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Microsoft to switch off OWA Light after nearly two decades

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Nobody needs a simple web client for Exchange, do they?

Microsoft has warned admins that Outlook Web Access (OWA) Light is set to be disabled and removed with the August 2026 Exchange Server update.

The announcement applies to the on-premises version of Exchange Server.

The feature was deprecated on August 19, 2024, but some users might still be caught off guard when the plug is pulled once and for all.

OWA Light – not to be confused with the stripped-down Android app Outlook Lite, which was retired earlier this year – is a simple web client for Exchange. Shorn of the fripperies of its heftier sibling, it was introduced with Exchange Server 2007 as a fallback for users of unsupported browsers (initially, anything that wasn't Internet Explorer 6 or 7).

At the time, the product manager for Exchange referred to it as "The Product Formerly Known as OWA Basic."

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