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Lync UCS Contacts Reporting with Powershell

2014-11-21 1 min read Exchange 2013 Lync Microsoft Powershell System Administration Zachary Loeber

By default a Lync enabled account within a Lync/Exchange 2013 environment will be enabled for UCS (Unified Contact Store). This means that the Lync contacts get saved in the Lync user’s mailbox and not the Lync database. In order to get a list of the contacts associated with these accounts you have to export data to a zip file with some debug Lync commands and, even then, the information is buried in a hard to interpret XML file. Continue reading

Exchange Log Level GUI Script

2014-07-07 2 min read Exchange Exchange 2010 Exchange 2013 Microsoft Powershell System Administration Zachary Loeber

I ran into a situation recently where I was forced to amp up the Exchange logging levels to further troubleshoot an issue with some pretty specific Exchange components. I found myself wanting a quick GUI to view and set the levels but found none. So I used this as an opportunity to learn a bit about xaml based GUIs and powershell. The result is this simple, but useful, Exchange log level GUI script which was written for Exchange 2013 but should also run on 2010.

Powershell: Word/Excel Helper Functions

2014-03-17 3 min read Microsoft Powershell System Administration Zachary Loeber

Using powershell I wrap up MS Word and Excel COM objects within a custom psobject. This object contains a handful of methods for making docx and xslx creation and manipulation easier.

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