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Blog Post: Haiku #62

CSPShell

What is the meaning Of life? Please say "French" to hear The answer in French. Today's haiku is all about the big questions in life. You know, questions like, "Why are we here?" "Is there life after death?" "What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?" Those big questions that have...

on 8 Mar 2011
Blog Post: Haiku #156

CSPShell

Mom says that we have To tell everyone about Policy profiles. We thought we'd try something a little different today: today we're going to randomly select one of the many emails sent in by our devoted readers and see if we can answer the reader's question by writing a haiku; this is our way...

on 20 Jul 2011
Blog Post: Haiku #134

CSPShell

Together at last: Microsoft and Google, and Network region links. Remember that big thing about Microsoft buying Skype? Well, you can forget that. Here's something even bigger: Microsoft has bought Google! Or maybe Google has bought Microsoft; to be honest, the details are a little...

on 17 Jun 2011
Blog Post: Haiku #112

CSPShell

Let's go fly a kite Up to the – nah, we'd rather Do holiday sets. This past weekend the author of today's haiku went to see the musical version of Mary Poppins . Note . Don't be surprised: technically they wouldn't let him in the door to see the show. He snuck in the through...

on 17 May 2011
Blog Post: Haiku #162

CSPShell

The next best thing to Getting a haircut: Trusted Application pools. Well, the author of today's haiku is back from his one-day journey to the TechReady conference . His overall impressions of the conference? Well, the mini-cannoli were surprisingly good, but the pasta salad in balsamic vinaigrette...

on 28 Jul 2011
Blog Post: Haiku #13

CSPShell

I'm like, OMG, IMHO, it's awesome. P2PAV. One of the authors of the daily Lync Server PowerShell haiku has a son who's currently in college. (University of Idaho; go Vandals!) Like most kids his age, he prefers to communicate via text messaging. Consequently, his father gets a lot of texts...

on 8 Dec 2010
Blog Post: Haiku #165

CSPShell

Break glass in case of A haiku emergency. Import announcements. OK, so, originally we planned to have a really exciting and interesting haiku for you today. (Hey, who said, "Well, that would be a nice change"?) Like we said, we planned to have a really exciting and interesting haiku for you...

on 2 Aug 2011
Blog Post: Haiku #173

CSPShell

Heart-pounding thrills and Excitement. Must be time for Simple URLs. Yesterday afternoon the author of today's haiku (and his wife) took a trip to the Utah Olympic Park. Was it the most exciting time he ever had in his entire life? Probably not. Still, it was interesting. For example, he...

on 16 Aug 2011
Blog Post: Haiku #38

CSPShell

Where's Waldo? And where Is Carmen Sandiego? CS Address Book. One thing you can count on here at the Lync Server PowerShell blog is this: we'll always give you the real story about Microsoft Lync Server 2010, both the good and the bad. For example, the good? Lync Server is probably the world...

on 2 Feb 2011
Blog Post: Haiku #8

CSPShell

The cat coughs: kack, kack. You call this a haiku on Bandwidth policies? Here at Microsoft we love acronyms. Take Windows Management Instrumentation, for example. Say "Windows Management Instrumentation" around Microsoft, and hardly anyone will know what you're talking about. Say "WMI," however...

on 1 Dec 2010
Blog Post: Haiku #71

CSPShell

Some things we are not Meant to know. For others, there's Get-CsService. There is a series of commercials playing on American TV these days in which some dorky guy walks up to a bar and asks the bartender for a light beer. The bartender asks if he'd like a good-tasting beer or a lousy-tasting...

on 21 Mar 2011
Blog Post: Haiku #92

CSPShell

They have 8 million Dollars for me. Will my dial Plan let me call them? Yesterday afternoon, the author of today's haiku got an email telling him that there was $8 million sitting in the Central Bank of Nigeria, just waiting to be transferred to him. And yes, he knows: that sounds like a...

on 19 Apr 2011
Blog Post: Haiku #20

CSPShell

Can I use your phone? Of course, but it's not my phone – It's everyone's phone. We have to admit that the developers responsible for putting together Microsoft Lync Server 2010 were pretty clever. Why do we say that? Well, for one reason, we get paid to say things like that. More importantly...

on 17 Dec 2010
Blog Post: Haiku #95

CSPShell

Access denied? Hmm, I guess that means that I need A new PIN number. Truth be told, the author of today's haiku is probably the world's worst user of Internet search engines: he never finds anything that he sets out to look for. On the other hand, he's remarkably good at finding things that...

on 22 Apr 2011
Blog Post: Haiku #25

CSPShell

I just sent you an Instant message. Are you there? Test-CsIM. The first time the author of today's haiku ever used email was 20 years ago, when he entered graduate school at the University of Washington. Note . Actually, we agree with you: it is hard to believe that someone who writes...

on 14 Jan 2011
Blog Post: Haiku #147

CSPShell

We whistle while we Work. Why? Because of Network Configuration. As the author of today's haiku was climbing the stairs this morning, he noticed a series of signs – one at each floor – that read: PLEASE DO NOT WHISTLE IN THE STAIRWAYS. IT DISTURBS THE PEOPLE IN NEARBY OFFICES...

on 7 Jul 2011
Blog Post: Haiku #189

CSPShell

Eye of newt and toe Of frog. Or just use CS Trusted computer. Yesterday afternoon, while waiting for a meeting to start, the author of today's haiku found himself browsing through an online copy of the Malleus Maleficarum ( The Hammer of Witches ). If you aren't familiar with the Malleus...

on 14 Sep 2011
Blog Post: Haiku #124

CSPShell

Today is a day For love. Also a day to Test group expansion. The author of today's haiku doesn't believe in horoscopes – well, to be honest, these days the author of today's haiku doesn't believe in much of anything . His wife doesn't believe in horoscopes, either, but she does get...

on 3 Jun 2011
Blog Post: Haiku #3

CSPShell

I do not like Green- Eggs-and-Ham.com. So I'll Block federation. Commentary Can't we all just get along? Well, to be perfectly honest, you're asking the wrong people here: we're just a couple of lowly haiku writers. When it comes to getting along with others, all we know for sure is...

on 19 Nov 2010
Blog Post: Haiku #19

CSPShell

I hear the voices But the names remain unknown. I need to press 3. You know, there are two great things about working at Microsoft. The first is knowing that any day could be the day that you change the world for the better. Have any of our Lync Server PowerShell haikus managed to change...

on 16 Dec 2010
Blog Post: Haiku #108

CSPShell

Sunshine? Bah! We have Interface cmdlets to Brighten up our days. To begin with, we'd like to reassure everyone that, after the crazy day we had yesterday, everything appears to be back to normal this morning. What was so crazy about yesterday? Well, for one thing, when the author of today...

on 11 May 2011
Blog Post: Haiku #26

CSPShell

Danger! Danger! Will Robinson! Please review the IM disclaimer. Many years ago, long before television became the bastion of intellectual wit and high culture that it is today, there was a short-lived show titled Lost in Space . To be perfectly honest, Lost in Space wasn't one of the best...

on 17 Jan 2011
Blog Post: Haiku #16

CSPShell

Two is company, Nine hundred three is a crowd. User Services. Ah, contacts: you can't live with 'em, and you can't live without 'em. The truth is, without contacts, Microsoft Lync 2010 wouldn't be all that much fun: if you couldn't quickly and easily send instant messages to people, if you...

on 13 Dec 2010
Blog Post: Haiku #125

CSPShell

It's always a great Day if you have your client Version policies. Well, it's Monday, and the author of today's Lync Server PowerShell haiku is definitely excited about being back to work, especially after the weekend that he was forced to endure. How bad could that weekend have been? Well...

on 6 Jun 2011
Blog Post: Haiku #90a

CSPShell

It's déjà vu all Over again: we're back with Another haiku. Before we get started, we have request to make: if any of you think that you're having a bad day, well, the author of today's haiku doesn't want to hear about it. Here's the kind of day that he's been having. He came...

on 15 Apr 2011