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  • Blog Post: One of These Things is Not Like the Others: Challenge 14: Answer

    When you work on the Lync Server PowerShell blog, people tend to stop you all the time and ask the same question: is your blog truly promoting peace and harmony throughout the entire world? Needless to say, we always thought that the Lync Server PowerShell blog was promoting peace and harmony throughout...
  • Blog Post: Lync Server 2010 Help

    Yes, it's what we've all been waiting for. The official Help documentation for Lync Server 2010 is available! Okay, so maybe what everyone has really been waiting for is the actual product itself, but hey, this is the next best thing, right? Why not get a head start by reading about Lync Server before...
  • Blog Post: Haiku #150

    Happy birthday! We Hope you will enjoy these cool Network cmdlets. We'd like to start off today's haiku by wishing our fellow Lync Server PowerShell blog writer a happy birthday. Like we said, we'd like to start of today's haiku that way. However, the blog writer in question specifically...
  • Blog Post: Haiku #7

    The water boils yet The frog swims. Monitoring Server might help him. According to an old story, if you put a frog in a pan of water and then slowly increase the temperature of the water, one degree at a time, the frog will never notice the difference. Instead, our doomed amphibian will continue...
  • Blog Post: Enabling User Accounts in Lync Server vs. Exchange Server

    Does the Active Directory object for a user have to exist before you can enable that user for Lync Server? Yes; if you're going to enable a user for Lync Server then that user must already have an Active Directory user account. For example, suppose you try to enable Ken Myer for Lync Server, but...
  • Blog Post: New Article: Enable Collect Logs in Microsoft Lync

    So you have all your users happily running Microsoft Lync 2010. Well, mostly happily. Every once in a while, not too often of course, users find that maybe they experience a little bit of difficulty with calls through Lync. Difficulties like dropped calls, audio or video quality issues, and so on. Fortunately...
  • Blog Post: New Article: 21 Myths, Legends, and Superstitions About Client Policies Debunked!

    There have been a lot of myths, legends, and superstitions throughout the world passed down through generations, from father to son, mother to daughter, Internet user to Internet user…. For example, you may have heard that chicken soup cures the common cold, a rabbit’s foot is good luck...
  • Blog Post: One of These Things is Not Like the Others: Challenge 15

    So you say you're looking for a real challenge in this week's Lync Server PowerShell One of These Things is Not Like the Others competition, do you? You say that you – what's that? You say that you aren't looking for a real challenge in this week's competition? Uh-oh. Well, you should have said...
  • Blog Post: Allow Microsoft to collect information about how I use Lync

    Registry locations HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Communicator\ CEIPEnabled Allowed registry values · 0 – Lync will not send Customer Experience Improvement Program information to Microsoft · 1 – Lync will send Customer Experience Improvement Program...
  • Blog Post: Haiku #106

    A star is born: Keep Lync and AD in synch with Update database. Hey, everyone, and please accept our apologies for being so late with today's haiku. Remember the old ad slogan "A day without orange juice is like a day without sunshine?" Well, here at the Lync Server PowerShell blog we like...
  • Blog Post: Conferencing Policy Settings: EnableP2PVideo

    This article is part of the series An In-Depth Guide to Conferencing Policy Settings . Parameter/Property Name Allowed Values EnableP2PVideo This is a per-user setting. · TRUE: Users can use video in a peer-to-peer session. This is...
  • Blog Post: Join meeting audio from

    Registry locations HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Communicator\ JoinAudioConferenceFrom Allowed registry values 0 : Do not join audio 1 : Join meeting audio using Lync Registry value type REG_DWORD Default setting Not present...
  • Blog Post: Haiku #177

    Natural beauty? True beauty comes from CS Conferencing settings. Well, we're back. (Oh, please don't say you didn't even know we were gone: that hurts .) The author of today's haiku has spent the past few days in Moab, Utah, and has spent most of that time hiking every hikeable trail in Arches...
  • Blog Post: The Difference Between Grant-Cs* Cmdlets and Set-Cs* Cmdlets

    What's the different between the Grant-Cs cmdlets and the Set-Cs cmdlets? Are there any Grant-Cs cmdlets that don't deal with policies? At last: an easy question to answer! When it comes to policies, the Set-Cs cmdlets are used to make a change to an actual policy. For example, one of the properties...
  • Blog Post: The Deleteomatic

    It slices, it dices, it purees, it…well, no, it doesn’t actually do any of those things. What it does is delete, and what it is is the Lync Server Deleteomatic. We’ve create a graphical user interface with PowerShell that you can use to delete objects, such as policies and configuration...
  • Blog Post: Creating Your First Response Group Using Lync Server Management Shell

    Submitted by Frédéric Dubut, Microsoft Introduction As with all the other Lync Server components, the Response Group application can be fully managed using the Lync Server Management Shell, which contains a comprehensive set of Windows PowerShell cmdlets covering all aspects...
  • Blog Post: One of These Things is Not Like the Others: Challenge 17: Answer

    As you all know, nothing lasts forever. Note . Well, except for bank accounts. One of the authors of the Lync Server PowerShell blog once closed a bank account, and was given a receipt that showed that the account was officially closed. A few months later, he got a bill in the mail for having...
  • Blog Post: Lync Server Cmdlet Mind Maps

    Here at the Lync Server PowerShell blog, we’ve been providing you with as much information as we can on using the Windows PowerShell cmdlets that ship with Microsoft Lync Server. We have a full all-in-one list of cmdlet descriptions ; we have a section where we’ve mapped the UI to the cmdlets...
  • Blog Post: Monday at the Lync Server PowerShell blog

    In case you haven't stopped by to visit us here at the Lync Server PowerShell blog lately, we just wanted to let you know that we're usually pretty busy Monday mornings. For example, here’s how things went this morning: The Lync Server PowerShell blog writers got into work bright and early...
  • Blog Post: Lync Language

    Registry locations HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Communicator\ Language Allowed registry values An integer value corresponding to the desired language (see below for a complete list of allowed values) Registry value type REG_DWORD Default...
  • Blog Post: Haiku #51

    WindowsService: It's Better than a toaster or A set of towels. We thought we should give everyone advance notice that we might not be publishing many haikus during the month of April. April, of course, is the month when Prince William of England will marry Kate Middleton, and now that the...
  • Blog Post: Create a Response Group with a Hunt Group

    This script shows how to build a very simple main line number covered by two receptionists. This sample uses some of the new features of the Response Group application in Microsoft Lync Server 2010: · Attendant routing , in order to route all the calls to the agents regardless of their presence...
  • Blog Post: Haiku #84

    The meeting will start In ten minutes. Please wait in The lobby till then. Welcome back to the daily Lync Server PowerShell haiku. About all we can say today is this: thank God it's Friday! Really? Thursday, huh? Oh, brother. It's been a long week …. But it's also been a week...
  • Blog Post: Haiku #53

    Your words still linger Long after you have left us. CS Archiving. The author of today's haiku once read that, when Albert Einstein was teaching at Princeton, university officials would come in after each class, take down the blackboard he used, shellac it, and then save it, just in case...
  • Blog Post: Hide the Notification Balloon

    Registry locations HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Communicator\ DSBkgndMode Allowed registry values · 00 00 00 00 – A balloon alert will be displayed each time you close the main Lync window · 01 00 00 00 – A balloon alert will not be displayed each...