I just had a problem after I updated my Spouse's machine to Vista Microsoft Knowledgebase article #911829 Just a heads up that as other work from home spouses start bugging you to upgrade their home computer in that there is a gotcha in Outlook Web Access and Internet Explorer 7. The symptoms show up as a blank editing window (i.e. message body, etc) where only a little x shows up in the top left corn I just had a problem after I updated my Spouse’s machine to Vista Microsoft Knowledgebase article #911829Just a heads up that as other work from home spouses start bugging you to upgrade their home computer in that there is a gotcha in Outlook Web Access and Internet Explorer 7. The symptoms show up as a blank editing window (i.e. message body, etc) where only a little x shows up in the top left corner of the message body that looks just like an unlinked image if a picture is missing from a web page.During my spousal tech support session, I found LOTS of threads dating back to the Internet Explorer v6 days that have documented this issue, with threads continuing into items regarding Windows Vista deployments. The fix is simple, but requires someone from the IT group to apply patches to the Exchange server as documented in this knowledgebase article that has references all the way back to Exchange 2000.So until your spouse’s IT group updates their Exchange environment, a work around is to install Firefox on the Vista box and put Outlook Web Access into compatibility mode officially known as Outlook Web Access Light that provides access for non Internet Explorer browsers. The downside is that your spouse is going to complain that it doesn’t look the same, and that’s because the active-x plugins needed for a true Outlook look and feel are missing. On a related note, we recently got to play with Exchange 2007 and got a great briefing on the Access Anywhere theme being pushed as Exchange, SharePoint, etc get integrated into a nice but bit heavy Content Management System. I found it a truly awesome package in the level of super tight integration across Exchange, SharePoint, InfoPath, SQL and a passel of other Microsoft products, but the demo sucked up three of my servers leaving me wondering just how appropriate this would be for small to medium sized organizations. As a counter point, I should mention that the PLONE system has quite a few of the most popular Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) features, and is browser agnostic. While not anywhere as tightly integrated with things like business intelligence systems, PLONE is still a pretty nice system and fully extensible using Python. Not to mention that finding a PLONE hosting site is a whole heck of a lot easier than finding a MOSS hosting site if you don’t feel like blowing the bucks on rolling your own. Technology Industry