Outlook Exchange Server - HELP!

[midwestgal]

I access my employer's Outlook Exchange Server from home in order to check
email. If I open my account on the exchange server and then minimize that
page and open another browser in order to search the web, can my employer in
ANY way - through my having logged into the Exchange Server - see where I
have been on the internet or access personal files from my computer?

I am obviously not well-versed in how this works. I do NOT want my employer
seeing that I have visited other sites where job listings may be posted.

Help???

 

[F.H. Muffman]

I access my employer's Outlook Exchange Server from home in order to

check email. If I open my account on the exchange server and then
minimize that page and open another browser in order to search the
web, can my employer in ANY way - through my having logged into the
Exchange Server - see where I have been on the internet or access
personal files from my computer?

I am obviously not well-versed in how this works. I do NOT want my
employer seeing that I have visited other sites where job listings may
be posted.

If you're talking about OWA, which it sounds like you are, you may want to
ask in microsoft.public.exchange.clients. OWA is a part of Exchange, not
a part of Outlook.

That said, out of the box, no. They would have had to do something to the
system to make it happen and, depending upon your browser, you would have
needed to allow software to have been downloaded to your machine. Theoretically,
it is possible.

If you aren't talking solely about OWA, if you are talking about full Outlook,
using RPC over HTTP, then I would put it as even less possible. I'm not
sure Exchange can require Outlook clients to run a particular add-in, but
that's the only way Outlook could do it.

If you were VPN'ing into the server, then all your traffic would be going
through their network, so the answer there would be that they are 100% able
to monitor it, as you're using their network. Does that mean they are?
Depends on how paranoid you are and how controlling your company is.

 

[Pat Willener]

If you are connecting your browser through your employer's network, then
yes, they can see everything you do. If you are connecting directly via
your private ISP's network, then no.