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Lync Client: Automatic Fortune Cookie Utility

2015-02-08 4 min read Lync Microsoft Powershell Zachary Loeber

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!

Powershell: Get-iQuote

2015-02-08 1 min read Microsoft Powershell Zachary Loeber

While scratching an itch I found a cool little site that has a simple to use REST api for returning random quotes from multiple categories. Here is a small function which utilizes this online source to pull quotes from the web!

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.

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