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Summer 2011 is finally in high-swing with temperatures soaring to over 28 degress Celcius here in Zurich. After TechDays 2011 in Bern and Unified Communications (Lync/Exchange) Connections 2011 in Karlsruhe earlier this year before the summer break, it is time to mark your calendar for 6 Sep 2011 for the next every first Tuesday of the month Swiss IT Pro User Group community event. Our very own PowerShell MVP (Marc van Orsouw) will moderate the interactive session with plenty of networking opportunities to talk PowerShell from basics to specific topics and interest areas.

Click here for registration and more information of this free event for IT Pros by IT Pros.

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You sign-in to Lync 2010 successfully and receive another “Lync - Services Sign In” prompt a short while later (multiple password prompts in succession). The account field is already populated with your SIP sign-in address and is not changeable. Modifications are possible only on the user name and password fields.

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A closely related PowerShell cmdlet to Test-CsAddressBookService, Test-CsAddressBookWebQuery enables the Lync Server 2010 administrator to check that a user can indeed search for a specific contact. This is accomplished by running a query against the Address Book Web Query service (ABWQ).

There is a clear distinction between internal and external search URIs. By default, they all point to the same location within the corporate LAN network. In the real world, most organizations deploy different private and public DNS namespaces. To avoid common incidents like “Exchange Web Services / EWS not deployed”* on Lync 2010, you can make use of Test-CsAddressBookWebQuery to run verification tests.

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This is the first post on the extensive set of Test-Cs* PowerShell cmdlets that shipped with Lync Server 2010 Management Shell. Let us kick off the journey for this tutorial series with a look at Test-CsAddressBookService.

Regardless of how your DNS infrastructure is setup - identical FQDN, parent/child or split DNS configuration - it helps to understand the clear distinction and need to have internal and external URLs properly defined. This is essential for organizations that intend to enable remote Lync 2010 (client) network connectivity or access besides the classic internal or VPN scenarios.

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Get-CsVoicePolicy : Cannot open database “xds” requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for user ‘domain\username’.

In a remote PowerShell session, executing many other valid Lync Server 2010 cmdlets such as Get-CsUser, Get-CsSipDomain or Set-CsClientVersionConfiguration may result in the same error above. Further, the following message may be reported:

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