Enabling Outlook disabled add-ins

Outlook addin are a common source source headaches for IT Support. In my world, I get asked the same questions over and over again. Sometimes differently but in the end it is the same question. Lync Online Meeting Addin and Zantaz EAS addin generates so may calls for our team. Microsoft has tried to address the addin issues in all the editions of Microsoft Office. However troubleshooting why an addin does not load remains something of black magic. May be later this will be demystified. For now the steps below may help. After all in most cases the latest versions of outlook disables any addin that misbehaves in a way that threatens the outlook user experience.

Lync 2010 Mobility broken - Event ID 1309

• Lync mobile,
• lync2010 mobility,
• lync,
• event id 1309,

Today my Lync mobility was broken. I simply could not connect to Lync on my mobile device. I was baffled because some users could connect.  A closer look revealed that users that were connected were most on a different Lync Pool. I enabled logging on my device and tried again and the I send myself the diagnostic logs from Android Device. Below is the clue to the problem preventing me from using Lync Mobile

Lync 2010 - EWS not deployed

Recently I went through the trouble of trying to determine why my Lync 2010 client was showing an Exchange Integration error. I knew EWS was working correctly. None of the configuration had been changed, yet somehow something had changed.  I went through most of the available solutions such as these

http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/lync-claims-ews-not-deployed/

http://sparesomeexchange.com/how-lync-2010-obtains-exchange-web-services-ews-url-via-autodiscover-in-exchange-2010/

Bulk Copying or moving Outlook mail items using powershell

• outlook powershell,
• powershell move emails,

SO today was hectic day for me. It started off as regular day where i get to talk to colleagues and work through the usual daily problems. I cannot say much about the end of the day. It was just the opposite where i was battling to finish all my tasks that had suddenly skyrocketed. All of them very critical. But this one task caught my attention and deserves a write up. I have never written powershell script to handle outlook emails. In this case, i needed to process a folder with close to 300,000 items and move or copy them to another folder. Where to start, anybodys guess GOOGLE. lets begin...