MAdCaP.ps1 – A GUI for Lync Analog Devices & Common Area Phones

Creating and administering Analog Devices and Common Area Phones in Lync is sometimes a little tedious. I have a terrible record for forgetting to assign a PIN to Common Area Phones… Inspired by a customer (and to the horror of a purist peer) I’ve created a PowerShell script that provides a GUI for the administration …

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A Christmas 2012 update for Lync 2010 & 2013 Phone Edition

Clearly we’ve made Santa’s “nice” list this year, as he’s bestowed upon us an early Christmas present (or, for the cynics/realists, a belated CU7 for the “Phone Edition”). This update delivers MOH to the Aries family of phones, addresses a sometimes strange problem where Common Area Phones won’t log back in after the FE has …

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Changing the Lync Address Book’s “–KeepDuration” breaks ABS Downloads!

Much has been written about Lync’s Address Book service. We know that Lync generates a Full address book file nightly at 1:30am by default, and also creates daily update files (Delta and Compact) that clients download daily in an incremental backup sorta way. (Here’s a good description of how ABS does what it does). The …

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Viewing Truncated PowerShell Output

Sometimes PowerShell truncates output, and if you don’t realise what’s going on, you’ll never get it to show. Where you’re expecting potentially lots more text, PowerShell replaces it with a single lousy ellipsis, cruelly taunting you. Column Width If it’s just a column width problem, the fix is simple enough: just pipe to out-string and add …

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