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Lync Client: Automatic Fortune Cookie Utility

Here’s a just for fun powershell script for the Lync user. In the not so old days of Unix administration it was not too uncommon to have a ‘fortune cookie’ display when logging into a system. I’ve always thought that it would be neat to have something similar in the Lync client that would allow for an easy rotation of your personal note field. Little did I realize how easy it would be to add such functionality myself with some powershell and the Lync SDK!

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.

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