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Jun 24, 2014

Managing Lync Server 2013 with Windows PowerShell—Part 2

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to disable Active Directory users for Lync. Hey, Scripting Guy! I was so happy yesterday! I spun up thousands of users in Lync, and it worked beautifully. But now management has come back and indicated that it should not be enabled for our temporary staff. How can I quickly disable Lync users? —LN Hello LN, Ho...

Jun 23, 2014

Managing Lync Server 2013 with Windows PowerShell—Part 1

Doctor Scripto

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...

Dec 10, 2012

New User Exchange & Lync Settings

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Guest blogger Tim Bolton discusses a script to create new Exchange uses and Lync settings. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we have a special treat – a cool Windows PowerShell script to create new Exchange users and the associated Lync settings. Tim has written a very popular guest blog article earlier this ye...