Showing archive results for June 2014

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to enable Active Directory users for Lync.  Hey, Scripting Guy! We just spun up our Lync server, and I need to know a very easy way to enable groups of users. I have over 10,000 records to enable and not quite enough coffee to click the mouse button all that fast! —LN  Hello LN, Honorary Scripting Guy...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell cmdlets to create a server resource record.  Is there was a way to script the creation of my internal server resource records for my Lync deployments?  If you're running Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2012,           use the Add-NewDNSServerResourceRecord&nb...

Summary: Automate the installation of SQL Server Express and complete the installation of Lync Server 2013. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here. Today, we're getting a little nerdy by automating the rest of our Lync server...on a Sunday. Yesterday, we finished with a Windows Server 2012 R2 box with all the features and the Visual C++...

Summary: Learn to use the Lync module for Windows PowerShell to extend the Active Directory schema.  Is there an easy way to use Windows PowerShell to install a new Lync server?  After you have the Lync core installed on the server (even if you haven't installed Lync itself),           you can use the Windows...

Summary: Prep Windows Server 2012 R2 for a Lync Server 2013 installation. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here, and today I'm doing something I've been itching to do for a while...Automate the creation of a Lync server! You see, a while back, our Lync guy left the company. My boss looked at me and said, "You know anything ab...