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Exchange with Outlook 2008 or 2010 in Windows

When you click on a url from a Exchange connector in ES's search result page the email should open Outlook. This is done by crafting a special url in the format "outlook:000000003eb852348...". Sometimes Outlook don't register the "outlook:" url handler correctly. If this is the case noting will happen when you click on the link ( or the browser try to open a webpage ).

We have created a small program that fixes this, without doing anything more. It can be downloaded below. Please read the README.txt for instructions.

Download fix for url scheme in Windows: Outlook2007Scheme.zip

The program creates and sets the registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\outlook\shell\open\command to the correct path for outlook.exe. Full source code is included.

Opening files from network shares in Internet Explorer, FireFox or Google Chrome

The security model in many browsers prevent opening of files stored on Windows shares by default. To enable that you typecly have to find a way to allow the browser to open file:// url's.

• Internet Explorer
  IE should be able to open fie:// urls without modifications, but may require you to add the url to the trusted website zone. If noting happens when you click on a file:// link, try to open the share from Windows Explorer, to double check that the end-user has access. It may take some time to access the file share the first time, so you may want to map the share locally to speed thing up.
• Firefox
  Please referee to this tutorial on how to enable local files in Firefox: http://www.techlifeweb.com/firefox/2006/07/how-to-open-file-links-in-firefox-15.html .
• Google Chrome
  There is a extension to Chrome called LocalLinks that fixes this issue: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jllpkdkcdjndhggodimiphkghogcpida .