The Exchange Forms Based Authentication login page settings are contained in the logon.asp page. The steps below describe how to remove the option to choose a Premium or Basic experience from the OWA login page. This is what the login option will look like after following the steps below:

To remove the Premium and Basic options,
- On the server, navigate to \Program Files\Exchsrvr\exchweb\bin\auth\usa.
- Backup the logon.asp file before making any changes to ensure you can revert back to the original file.
- Open the logon.asp page using Notepad or Visual Studio .NET.
Note: To ensure constancy, update the logon.asp page for each language OWA is accessed in by users in your organization. - Comment out the Basic and Premium text using single quote (‘) as shown below.
'CONST L_ShowSimpleUI_Text = "Basic"
'CONST L_ShowComplexUI_Text = "Premium"
- Search for L_ShowUITitle_Text
- Comment out: <!--" & L_ShowUITitle_Text & "-->
- Search for L_ShowDetail_Text
- Comment out: <!--Response.Write "(<A id=""lnkShowClient"" href="/" mce_href="/"#"" onclick=""onClickHelp();return false;"" >" & L_ShowDetail_Text & "</A>"-->
- Search for L_HideDetail_Text
- Delete only the closing bracket “)” near the end of the line: " & L_HideDetail_Text & "</A>)</TD></TR>"
- Search for L_ShowComplexUI_Text
- Comment out: ><!--<INPUT id=""rdoRich"" checked type=""radio"" name=""forcedownlevel"" value=""0"" onclick=""flags.value &= 14"">-->
- Search for L_ShowSimpleUI_Text
- Comment out: <!--<INPUT id=""rdoBasic"" type=""radio"" name=""forcedownlevel"" value=""1"" onclick=""flags.value |= 1"">-->
- Save the changes and verify the logon page.