This may come as a shock to you (or maybe just a relief), but Communications Server “14” doesn’t use Group Policy to manage user policies. Instead Communications Server defines its own policies, which can be applied to specific users. This article explains how to do that.

Ah, yes: the great double quote conundrum. Compared to, say, VBScript, Windows PowerShell is remarkably good at figuring at what it is you want to do. For example, this command returns the voice policy RedmondVoicePolicy : Get-CsVoicePolicy "RedmondVoicePolicy...

If you want to see an example of a GUI application created in Windows PowerShell, take a look at the Lync Server Deleteomatic . If you want to learn how to use PowerShell to create your own Deleteomatic, or any other type of GUI application, read this...

Can Set-CsUser construct a SIP address for you? No, it can't. As you probably know, when you enable a user for Lync Server you can ask the system to create the user's SIP address for you. For example, this command gives Ken Myer a SIP address based...

WMI Namespaces and Scripting Examples By Nick Smith, Microsoft Introduction Your company has a requirement to administratively add/remove/modify the membership of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 users' contact lists. This...