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If you are using this very useful tool to change users home directory paths in AD and you need to input the path according to the user name, you may find that the regular %username% does not work with ADModify. The username value that the program does understand is: %’sAMAccountName’% For example a users home …

There was a requirement for us to create a document recently which listed some general Lync2010 pre-requisites. Thought it would be quite useful to others and so have pretty much copied it into this blog. enjoy…. 1.  Introduction This document aims to detail all the pre-requisites and minimum server hardware specifications for the installation of …

We normally add the following Help and Training site to IIS as a value-add on our Lync engagements but recently there was a requirement for a customer to have a look at the material before we were engaged. As such I published the site so they could have a look externally without having to bother …

Came across an issue recently where a customer was unable to delete the first mailbox database they created in their exchange environment due to the following error. Error: This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes, mailbox plans, archive mailboxes, or arbitration mailboxes. To get a list of all mailboxes in this database, run the …

Came across this handy utility the other day and whilst I still prefer to use my own scripts this tool is really useful for getting all the normalisation rules and routes etc. configured quickly. http://lync.buchanan.com/LyncOptimizer/ Have a go and see what you think. Good luck. NeilC

Just a few easy instructions that will allow you to mount a lagged database in Exchange 2010 into a recovery database. This will allow you restore items/mailboxes that may have got deleted from a maximum of 14 days ago. In these instructions I will be restoring a mailbox database name  DB01 to the point in …

Below is PowerShell command which can be run to force a reboot on a remote machine: (gwmi win32_operatingsystem -ComputerName ComputerName -cred (get-credential)).Win32Shutdown(6)