A few weeks back I was in Las Vegas! Attending the MMS 2013 Summit. After attending the keynote and given I have seen most of the demo's before that were displayed during the session, I am still impressed by what you can do natively in the Microsoft...

This is a common problem I have come across in an enterprise pool, when you drain and patch and reboot one of the front end nodes the services will start again and users will re-home to the server, but you may not be finish working with the server and...

this takes doug's concept ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/dodeitte/archive/2011/05/11/how-to-get-the-last-time-a-user-registered-with-a-front-end.aspx) and just runs it in powershell query and outputs the results to a text file to allow you to search ...

its taking me a long time to get back to this... been super busy in work which is always a good thing! here is some sample code which will allow you to create a very simple print queue monitor and log the details out to a csv file for further manipulation...

I decided to give this a go and create a multipinger with powershell... this is my first draft! if I get time I plan to change it to use jobs instead and then format the results out... but this is a functional first draft.. here is the code ...

here is a little script I was playing with to find duplicate files on your disk here is the code #Define the results path $outputdirectory = $env:userprofile + "\Desktop" $outputfile = "duplicatefileresults.txt" $output = $outputdirectory...

Interestingly enough the argument with people still happens about not wanting management tools for their system. So I created this script as a basis which will load balance out VM's across multiple hosts using live migration here is the code...

very simple bandwidth monitor allows you to select your interface and will take the average bandwidth over 60 seconds (you can configure!) here it is !.... $interfaces = Get-WmiObject -class Win32_PerfFormattedData_Tcpip_NetworkInterface...

So if you want to export and import the contact information between to pools for DR here is 2 simple powershell scripts that will help. This will also move the users from the primary to the backup pool so the backup pool becomes their primary register...

i was ask for this as an interim step for a customer who needs to save money! hopefully at some point they will have the money to buy an identity management system etc.. but hey sometimes we have to solve these particular needs here is the code...

If you need to deploy an environment this may help... the script should deploy the windows pre-reqs, the lync pre-reqs, the local management store, the role specifc stuff , request the certificate and assign it and start the services and install network...

For my own reference :) but feel free to use! first create a file on your desktop called import.csv the format should be something like firstname,lastname,samaccountname,phonenumber,extension john,doe,jdoe,+35312791234,1234 sean,test,test...

Recently i have come across alot of file servers which have a large amount of in use and because of this are slow. When you investigate the task manager you see that there is little or no services taking up RAM but yet you are hitting the memory limit...

I just updated it to include devices and clients here is the original link to the first post where i have uploaded the doc http://blogs.technet.com/b/parallel_universe_-_ms_tech_blog/archive/2011/11/24/lync-patching-guide.aspx

i have had lots of address book issues the last few days and put together this quickly (and i know there are cleaner ways of doing it!) basically it probes the sql backend server dumps out what information the update-csuserdatabase populates from...

just updated the guide to 1.1 i have added devices and clients in..... hope it is useful for you!

so this is part 2 this will.... 1. enumerate the VM's on the system 2. turn them off 3. delete them 4. enumerate the virtual switches 5. delete them 6. delete the VM Storage Location (it will prompt you for the path) this should...

In my previous job i had to deploy a lot of labs, and since i worked full time in there i didnt really both with beginning to automate the process, well i dont have the time anymore so i need to start :) this is part 1 of the script which will deploy...

just in case you are not allowed open remote powershell or something like that, here is a quick way to collect the information via WMI from a remote computer... # Setting path to servers.txt file for input later on... $inputfilepath = $env:USERPROFILE...

here is the basis of a script you can use to generate an alert using send-mailmessage or via ops manager or something! when disk space is below a certain threshold... enjoy! $freespacethreshold = 17 # Setting path to servers.txt file for input...

I was asked to produce this script for follow up checking of driver versions later on or possible settings which can cause problems. The idea would be that a master file is updated on a website and then we can reference this in the script to pull...

i need testers on this one.... please try it if you want and let me know the results.... basically it will discover what sip users are registered against the particular FE server and report on its client version / sip address and the originating IP...

i was asked by a customer to do this and it was one of those scripts that was written in about 15 mins and to me anyway proved interesting just to write and output to html... their big thing is they wanted to be able to collect multiple events logs...

here is the code... you need to run this on a front end server and this will test enterprise voice as well add / remove bits you feel you need.... :) set-executionpolicy unrestricted import-module lync Write-host "This script will test...

Another little powershell script to automate some bits that i come across this script will 1. test if you have the hyper-v bpa installed 2. download the hyper-v and install it 3. run it and list errors and warnings 4. output the whole thing...