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Microsoft All-In-One Script Framework is updated today with 9 new script samples.   These new script samples cover Lync Server, Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, and Office. All of these scripts are written for solving frequently asked IT tasks that our team observed in TechNet forums and Microsoft Support Incidents.  Many customers are asking about these IT scenarios, so we expect that the script samples can save some time for IT Pros.

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New Lync Server Script Samples

Script to Enable Users and Enterprise Voice in Microsoft Lync Server 2010

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Script-to-Enable-Users-and-f56306ed

Description: This script could be used to enable users and enterprise voice feature in Microsoft Lync Server 2010. It will help you to generate LineUri and provide a confliction detection mechanism. Also you can assign dial plans and voice policies at the same time. It is recommended to use this script right after deploying a new Lync environment. You need to find another solution or extend this script to support user provisioning.

User Scenarios: With Enterprise Voice, Microsoft Lync Server 2010 delivers a stand-alone Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) offering to enhance or replace traditional PBX systems. Enterprise Voice users can call colleagues on your organization’s VoIP network or PBX, and they can call traditional phone numbers outside your organization.  Currently, administrators feel difficulties when they try to enable users and enterprise voice right after deploying a new Lync environment. It requires a lot of work to assign phone numbers (LineUri) to each user. So administrators do need a script to mitigate this problem.

Acknowledgement: Thanks Sean Xiao for collecting the script idea.  Thanks Greg Gu for producing the script sample.  Thanks  Christopher Tart  (Microsoft SR SUPPORT ESCALATION ENGINEER) for reviewing it and improving its quality.

Import Contacts for Microsoft Lync 2010 (PowerShell)

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Import-Contacts-for-Lync-5fe0e671

Description: This script could be used to import custom groups and distribution groups for Microsoft Lync 2010.

User Scenarios: In a real world, IT help desks are often required to add dozens of predefined custom groups or distribution groups for Lync clients in different department. It is a time-consuming task for adding predefined custom group or distribution group for each Lync client.

Acknowledgement: Thanks Anders Wang for collecting this script idea.  Thanks Greg Gu for composing the script.  Thanks Christopher Tart  (Microsoft SR SUPPORT ESCALATION ENGINEER) for reviewing it and improving its quality.

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New Exchange Server Script Samples

Generate report of user mailbox’s size for Exchange 2010 (PowerShell)

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Generate-report-of-user-e4e9afca

Description: This script could be used to export mailboxes’ information to a CSV file, including SamAccountName, DisplayName, TotalItemSize. Based on these CSV files, script will also generate a report about the variation tendency of user mailbox.

User Scenarios: IT Administrators may care about the size of user’s mailbox.  It’s good for admins to log this size information every day, and create report when admins want to check the variation tendency of user mailbox.

Acknowledgement: Thanks Zifeng Wang for collecting the script topic from TechNet forums.  Thanks Edward Qi for composing the script sample.  Thanks Flo Raharja – Microsoft Escalation Engineer – for reviewing the script sample before we publish it.

Create Report for Average Mailbox Size and Item Count per DB in Exchange 2010

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Create-Report-for-Average-8bbd0467

Description: This script could be used to create report for average mailbox size and item count per database in Microsoft Exchange 2010. Also you can use this script to measure all the properties which can be measured.

User Scenarios: In a real world, IT Administrators may want to know the detail information about Mailbox Database, some of them even require the average mailbox size of each database, and they need these data to manage the exchange server better.

Acknowledgement: Thanks Zifeng Wang for collecting the script idea.  Thanks Greg Gu for writing the script sample.  Thanks Mike Hendrickson for reviewing the sample before it’s published.

Remove E-Mail address with Specific Domain Name in Microsoft Exchange 2010

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Remove-E-Mail-address-with-d716e055

Description: This script could be used to remove E-Mail address with specific domain Name in Microsoft Exchange 2010. This script can remove E-Mail address from mailbox, distribution group and dynamic distribution group.

User Scenarios: In a real world, IT Administrators may want to remove new e-mail addresses due to variety of reasons. If an organization has thousands of recipients, it’s impossible to remove e-mail addresses for these recipients one by one. IT administrators do need a script to complete this task.

Acknowledgement: Thanks Zifeng Wang for collecting the script idea.  Thanks Greg Gu for writing the script sample.  Thanks Mike Hendrickson for reviewing the sample before it’s published.

Add Proxy Addresses for Recipients by Using a CSV file in Exchange 2010

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Add-Proxy-Addresses-for-3a317074

Description: This script could be used to add proxy addresses for recipients by using a CSV file in Microsoft Exchange 2010. You can export the recipients which you want to add new proxy address by using this script also.

User Scenarios: In a real world, IT Administrators may want to add new proxy addresses due to variety of reasons. If an organization has thousands of recipients, it’s impossible to add proxy address for these recipients one by one. IT administrators do need a script to complete this task.

Acknowledgement: Thanks Zifeng Wang for collecting the script idea.  Thanks Greg Gu for writing the script sample.  Thanks Mike Hendrickson for reviewing the sample before it’s published.

Manage Large Messages in Microsoft Exchange 2010

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Manage-Large-Messages-in-f1076d8f

Description: This script could be used to manage large messages in Microsoft Exchange 2010. You can use this script for suspending or resuming large messages. Meanwhile, this script will send notifications to these users who are sending large messages.

User Scenarios:  In a real world, IT administrators may want to find out the users who are sending lager messages. They hope these messages will be delivered at afterhours. Large quantity of newsletter messages is a typical scenario for using this script.

Acknowledgement: Thanks Christy Zhang for collecting this script topic from TechNet forums.  Thanks Greg Gu for composing the script sample.  Thanks Mike Hendrickson for reviewing it.

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New SharePoint Server Script Samples

Get Checkout Files List in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (PowerShell)

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Get-Checkout-Files-List-in-040002fd

Description: This script could be used to get a list of checkout files from a site collection in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. You can also get a list of files which checkout by specific user.

User Scenarios: In a real world, IT administrators often need to get a checkout files list in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, especially after the resignation of an employee. It will be a heavy task if they do it manually. It’s better to use a script to generate a checkout files list automatically.

Acknowledgement: Thanks Pengyu Zhao for collecting the script topic from TechNet forums.  Thanks Greg Gu for composing the script sample.  Thanks Nishand Vasudevan from Microsoft  for reviewing the script before it’s published.

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New Office Script Samples

Automating Out of Office in Outlook (VBScript)

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Automating-Out-of-Office-bc0edb1e

Description: This VBScript illustrates how to automate the user's Out of Office state in Outlook.

User Scenarios:  Sometimes user will forget to turn on or turn off the Out of Office assistant, this could be annoying. Using this script will help user to manage his/her Out of Office state automatically.

Acknowledgement: Thanks Rex Zhang for collecting the script idea.  Thanks Cristin Yan for writing the script sample.  Thanks Shaleen Thapa (Microsoft Support Escalation Engineer) for reviewing the script to ensure its quality.

Today marks the General Availability of Windows Server 2012, a special day in what will be a big launch year for Microsoft and our customers and partners worldwide.

Compared with Windows Server 2008/R2 that provides about 230 cmdlets, Windows Server 2012 beats that by a factor of over 10 shipping ~ 2,430 cmdlets.  You can automate almost every aspect of the server.   The new PowerShell 3.0, like Windows Server 2012, has a ton of new features.  In this automation script-centric move, Microsoft All-In-One Script Framework (AIOSF) is ready to support IT Pros with many new services and offerings coming this year.  We sincerely hope that the IT community will benefit from the effort.

Here is the first one among our new services and offerings: 

The team is preparing a large set of Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 script samples based on frequently asked IT tasks that we collect in TechNet forums and support calls to Microsoft.   Because the script topics come from frequently asked IT tasks, we hope that these script samples can be helpful to many IT Pros worldwide.   With the General Availability of Windows Server 2012, we release the first three Windows Server 2012 / Windows 8 script samples today. 

Get Network Adapter Properties in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 (PowerShell)

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Get-Network-Adapter-37c5a913

Description: This script could be used to get network adapter properties and advanced properties in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. It combines the outputs of Get-NetAdapter and Get-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty. It can generate a report of network adapter configuration settings.

Use Scenarios: In a real world, IT Administrators are required to check the configuration of network adapters after the deployment of new servers. One typical example is the duplex setting of network adapters. Also, IT administrators need to maintain a server list which contains network adapter configuration settings in a regular basis. Before Windows Server 2012, IT administrators often feel difficulties to handle these tasks.

Acknowledgement: Thanks Greg Gu from AIOSF for collecting this script topic, and writing the script sample.  Thanks James Adams (Microsoft Premier Field Engineer) for reviewing the script sample and ensuring its quality.

How to batch create virtual machines in Windows Server 2012 (PowerShell)

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/How-to-batch-create-9efd1811

Description: This PowerShell Script illustrates how to batch create multiple virtual machines based on comma delimited file by using PowerShell 3.0 in Windows Server 2012.

Use Scenarios: IT admin requires to batch creating virtual machines in Windows Server 2012, although they can use few commands due to the lack of programming knowledge. Although it’s a set of Hyper-V command-lets within Windows PowerShell, IT Admins are reluctant to use them except simple a command which is widely used.

Acknowledgement: Thanks Anders Wang from AIOSF for collecting this script topic and writing the script sample.  Thanks Christopher Norris for reviewing the script sample and ensuring its quality before publishing.

Remove Windows Store Apps in Windows 8 (PowerShell)

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Remove-Windows-Store-Apps-a00ef4a4

Description: This script can be used to remove multiple Windows Store Apps from a user account in Windows 8. It provides a list of installed Windows Store applications. You can specify the application IDs, and remove them all at once.

Use Scenarios:

1. In Windows 8, you can remove a single Windows Store App by right-clicking the tile in the Start menu and choosing the uninstall command.  However, no command is provided for removing multiple Windows Store Apps all at once. If you want to do so, you can use this script sample.

2. Sometimes Windows Store Apps may crash in Windows 8.  Even though you can successfully uninstall and reinstall the App, the application may still crash after the reinstallation.  In this situation, you can use this example script to remove these Windows Store Apps cleanly.

Acknowledgement: Thanks Edward Qi from AIOSF for collecting the script idea and composing the script sample.  Thanks James Adams (Microsoft Premier Field Engineer) for reviewing the script sample and ensuring its quality.

This is just the beginning, and more and more script samples are coming.  You can follow our blog (http://blogs.technet.com/b/onescript) to get the latest customer-driven script samples for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.