Disable Outlook Web Access Instant Messenger
February 2nd, 2010
With the launch of Outlook Live (ExchangeLabs R3) the ability to us instant messenger has been added to Outlook Web Access. For schools that do not wish to use this feature, administrators now have the ability to set attributes via PowerShell (requires Vista or WS2008) to disable Instant Messenger in OWA. To do so, simply use the following cmdlets:
Get-OwaMailboxPolicy -Identity:"OwaMailboxPolicy-DefaultMailboxPlan" | Set-OwaMailboxPolicy -InstantMessagingEnabled:$false
