• Holiday Sets and the Workflows that Love Them

    by Christopher Wallick, BT There’s so much to consider when thinking about the varied and sundry PowerShell cmdlets that are used to manage and configure Microsoft Lync Server 2010. In this riveting installment of “A Snippet from the Shell”...
  • Listing the Names of the Agent Groups Assigned to a Response Group Queue

    The best thing about being a technical writer at Microsoft is that you are constantly reminded how little you actually know about the technology you're charged with writing about. Note . No, we're not being facetious: that really is the best...
  • Granting Policies to Users

    by Christopher Wallick, BT Well we’ve made it into the New Year and from my point of view 2011 is going to be a very busy year. So, in this edition of “Snippets from the Shell” I thought I’d take a moment to focus on some basic...
  • Assign Active Directory Phone Numbers to Line URIs

    To see a full explanation of how these scripts work, see the article Active Directory Phone Numbers and Line URIs: Together at Last! http://blogs.technet.com/b/csps/archive/2011/02/01/howtoadphonetolineuri.aspx Convert a Phone Number to a Line URI...
  • How to Undo That Thing You Now Wish You Had Never Done in the First Place

    Although we can't guarantee this, we can pretty much guarantee this: once you've switched to Microsoft Lync Server 2010 you'll never have nightmares again. Or, at the very least, you'll never have nightmares about Microsoft Lync Server again. Ever. ...