Month: May 2013

Exchange 2013, Issue, OWA, Unified Messaging Leave a comment

Exchange 2013 OWA Mailbox policy issue cause of OWA error?

Reading Time: 4 minutes Within Exchange 2013 you can have OWA (Outlook Web App) Mailbox policies, in which an Exchange Admin can determine which features within OWA are available to users. By default, there's a default policy with all options enabled, but you can have more policies and configure them at will and assign them to Mailbox-enabled users according to the organization's needs. In this case we wanted to completely disable the Text Messaging option, as it offers no additional functionality for this organization. Disabling it

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Exchange, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, Load Balancing, Lync, Migration/Transition, Question of the day, Windows 8/10 Leave a comment

My portable lab hardware

Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently somebody asked via Twitter my what the make and model is of my laptop, used for Exchange testing environments. Well, 140 characters is not a lot of space so I decided to blog about it. Our company uses Dell laptops as a laptop standard, but other vendors might have comparable configurations. The main model type is a Precision M4700, but for lab purposes the configuration has been customized: CPU: Intel Core i7-3820QM @ 2,70GHz Memory: 32GB (4x8GB) 1600MHz DDR3

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Security, Windows Phone / Mobile Devices Leave a comment

How to use the Microsoft Authenticator WP app with Google

Reading Time: 3 minutes A while back, Microsoft enabled the long awaited 2-factor authentication feature for Microsoft Accounts and released a code generator for Windows Phone. But a little know fact is that this app can also be used for the Google Account Two-factor authentication. See the screenshots below on how to do this: Go to the right corner of you Google page and select Account. On the left you will see some options, select Security. Select Settings. When you haven’t entered a mobile

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