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Other than working full-time contract in an exciting Lync Server/Exchange 201x project with a super team for a global financial institution, I have been extremely busy off-line with the final preparations of my break-out sessions at this week’s Microsoft Evolution Day 2013 (Zurich Thu 20 Jun 2013).

Nevertheless, here is a quick update digest of Lync and unified communications/collaboration news and releases.

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Spannende break-out sessions warten auf Sie an den Microsoft Evolution Day 2013 Event am Do. den 20. Juni 2013 in Zürich. Lassen Sie diese Gelegenheit nicht entgehen, mit IT Pros und Microsoft Experte unterschiedlicher Fachbereichen zu vernetzen. Anmeldung und Details hier.

Ich  freue mich auf Ihren Besuch an den Event und meine Vorträge:

• Powershell v3 Administration fuer IT Pros
• Besserer Einsatz von Lync Server in einer Virtual Desktop Infrastruktur (VDI)
• Hyper-V Administration mit PowerShell
• System Center - SP1 Orchestrator (Opalis)

Technorati tags: Info, Event, Training, PowerShell, Hyper-V, Lync

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The workaround to TIP #1303: Lync PowerShell - Get-CsUser “RegistrarPool” Front-End Pool (Part 2A) is pretty straightforward. Even though each item in the array is a string object, an explicit cast to [string] is essential to solve the issue with the strange error messages:

$rpool = “pool01?, “pool02?, “pool03?

$rpool | % {
$v = [string]$_
Get-CsUser -Filter { RegistrarPool -eq $v }
}

Technorati tags: PowerShell, Microsoft Lync Server/Client /Lync Phone Edition / Lync Mobile

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This past year, I had the opportunity to contribute to the technical review for a newly released book by Daniel Jonathan Valik, Microsoft Unified Communications Senior Program Manager.

If you want to understand the philosophy behind unified communications, its evolution, and its real-world impact on today’s workforce, from the vantage point of a Microsoft insider, this book “Microsoft Lync 2013 Unified Communications: From Telephony to Real Time Communication in the Digital Age” * deserves an honored place on your technical bookshelf.

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I am super excited to be presenting not just one, not two but four break-out sessions at this year’s Microsoft Evolution Day 2013 organized by Digicomp.

The topics that I shall be speaking on will be delivered in German:

• Powershell v3 Administration fuer IT Pros
• Besserer Einsatz von Lync Server in einer Virtual Desktop Infrastruktur (VDI)
• Hyper-V Administration mit PowerShell
• System Center - SP1 Orchestrator (Opalis)

Learn from a panel of experts walking through real-world coverage of the latest in Microsoft products and technologies from Windows Server 2012, System Center family, Hyper-V, Lync Server 2013, Exchange Server 2013, SharePoint Server 2013 to efficient administration with PowerShell.

More information and registration can be found here.

Technorati tags: Info, Event, Training, PowerShell, Hyper-V, Lync

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You have a number of servers in different Lync Server 2013/2010 Enterprise Front-End Server Pools. The task is to query users assigned to the respective pools and you came up with a short script not unlike the following sample:

$rpool = “pool01″, “pool02″, “pool03″

$rpool | % {
$v = $_
Get-CsUser -Filter { RegistrarPool -eq $v }
}

Pretty straightforward ain’t it, yet you are confronted with one or more errors as listed. How could you provide a fix or workaround? Get into the game and let us know your thoughts!

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The E2EVC Virtualization Conference will finally happen in under 3 weeks with my break-out session abstract now published online:

“Making Lync VDI work best in your virtualization environment”

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) promotes centralized, secure and efficient management of an organization’s fleet of machines in the datacentre. From the deployment of thin to thick clients, an understanding of the what and how to effectively support Lync Server 2013/2010 within a VDI infrastructure is crucial. Troubleshooting real-time communication tips and tricks round up the discussion in this practical orientated session.

The entire team and I look forward to meeting you (again) in person in Copenhagen real soon now.

Technorati tags: Event, Training, Virtualization, Microsoft Lync Server/Client /Lync Phone Edition / Lync Mobile

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It is not uncommon to set a constraint on a result set by piping the output further down the pipeline to the Where-Object cmdlet. Take for instance that you are looking to retrieve all users homed on the Lync Server Front-End Pool identified with a valid FQDN. Using Get-CsUser, you chain the cmdlets as illustrated:

$poolFQDN = “fepool01.swissitpro.ch”
Get-CsUser | Where-Object { $_.RegistrarPool -eq $poolFQDN }

The command statement completed successfully with neither any failure message nor usable data returned. So what could be the reason for this behaviour?

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To discover a list of available pools in the deployment of Lync Servers, simply execute the Get-CsPool cmdlet in the Lync Server Management Shell. Appending the fully qualified domain name to the positional parameter -Identity enables you to zoom into a particular pool, e.g.

Get-CsPool -Identity lyncpool.swissitpro.org

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Join us for the independent E2EVC Virtualization Conference May 31 - June 2, 2013 in Scandic Sydhavnen Hotel, Copenhagen (Denmark). With a record of over 18 successful events throughout Europe to-date, this vendor-neutral 3-day conference runs over the weekend (Friday to Sunday), and covers the latest Citrix, VMware, Microsoft and other virtualization products and solutions.

Take this great opportunity to meet with industry peers, partners and system integrator from the virtualization landscape and to share know-how in a nice, relaxing atmosphere. More than 20 break-out sessions and 3 Master Classes await your participation. We look forward to meet you all in Copenhagen!

Visit www.e2evc.com/home for the conference agenda and registration information (special 1st May offer till 2013-05-03 only; more here).

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SPEAKER ALERT:

I shall be speaking at a hot breakout session at this conference about Lync 2013 in a Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment; watch this space for more to come.

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This and more exciting news, tips and trick, etc. to follow here.

Technorati tags: Event, Training, Virtualization, Microsoft Lync Server/Client /Lync Phone Edition / Lync Mobile

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