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Lync: Local and Site-to-Site Dial Plan GUI Script

2015-01-13 11 min read Lync Microsoft Powershell System Administration Zachary Loeber

In a multiple, or even single, site VOIP deployment there are some steps you can take to make life a whole lot easier on your end users. One of of the common features implemented across phone deployments (VoIP or otherwise) is site local and site-to-site dialing shortcuts. These shortcuts generally reduce the number of digits users have to dial to reach one another. In this post I’ll go over how you might setup such a dial plan in Lync. First I’ll go over how you might setup such a plan manually then I’ll provide a GUI tool to do the same thing.

Powershell: Check For Misplaced Certificates

2014-12-11 1 min read Exchange 2013 Lync Microsoft Powershell Security System Administration Zachary Loeber

Here is a script I absentmindedly put together one evening while power watching a TV series on Netflix with the wife. The general idea of this script is to check local machine, trusted root, and intermediate trusted root stores for misplaced or duplicate certificates.

Exchange 2013: Server Component State Script

2014-12-09 2 min read Active Directory Exchange 2013 Microsoft Powershell System Administration Zachary Loeber

Exchange 2013 includes some powershell commands which allow you to set and view several components in the messaging infrastructure. This is important to be aware of as it means all Exchange related services can be running when looking at them in service manager (services.msc) but not actually doing anything. I went ahead put together a script to better gather this information for administrators.

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