and it will be series of post where we will find different cmdlets used by Lync Management Shell

for Administration.

Enables one or more users for Microsoft Lync Server 2010.

Because you need to enable Users for logging in to Lync 2010,

and Microsoft is pushing PowerShell for administration,

that’s why we are going to enable our users from PowerShell not from Lync Control Panel.

Enable-CsUser -Identity “Shafaquat Ali. Awan” -RegistrarPool “Lync.WhatDoUC.net” -SipAddressType SamAccountName  -SipDomain WhatDoUC.net

Enable-CsUser is the cmdlet which enables the user account with the display name Shafaquat Ali. Awan.

In this example, the user is assigned to the Registrar pool lync.WhatDoUC.net,

and Lync Server auto-generates the SIP address by using the user’s SamAccountName (shafaquat.ali)

followed by the SIP domain WhatDoUC.net.

Here we are using this command with some different scenario.

Enable-CsUser -Identity "Shafaquat Ali. Awan" -RegistrarPool "Lync.WhatDoUC.net"
-SipAddress "sip:shafaquat.ali@WhaoDoUC.net"

If you want to enable more than one users with single cmdlet than you need to use this command in below method.

Get-CsAdUser -LDAPFilter "department=Sales" | Enable-CsUser -RegistrarPool "Lync.WhatDoUC.net"
-SipAddressType SamAccountName  -SipDomain WhatDoUC.net

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Sites such as TechNet, MSDN and Answers will all be included in the scheme which launches next week. The new award differs from the current Most Valuable Professional (MVP) awards that are distributed yearly. Anyone with worthy contributions to Microsoft’s online community forums can receive an award. Current Microsoft employees and MVPs are not eligible for the Community Contributor Award.

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I tried to collect all the information but if there is something missing I will try to update it as I will get any more information.

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The answer is YES we can use MOC client with Lync Server 2010 but the version should be

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Open Lync Control Panel (CP)

It will ask you user name & password give it the user name which is member of CSAdministrators Group and login than click on Users.

Click on Enable User Botton.

On next screen click press add.

The search popup menu will appear now find the user which you want to enable.

Select user and click Ok.

Now select pool and use the option (User principle name) UPN and finally click on Enable User.

And done.

I think its easy enough to enable users because the power of Silver Light.

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Well you might ask why i threw a bash for you.. well first of all, I like everyone of you… second I just achieved the 4th medal in Microsoft TechNet support forums. It is an achievement to get one.. and that too in just 4 months.

Well just so you know,
The following table lists the points for each star rating.

Well have a blast, cuz I am lovin’ ittt…..!!

I am proudly presenting this deployment guide for other fellow UC enthusiasts to help on their own personal/test deployments. The best thing in Lync is that instead of archiving & monitoring and edge roles, everything is installed in a single Virtual Machine, hence the word consolidation. For voice-mail you need an Exchange deployment. This guide doesn’t have the integration for voice mail gateways.

So now… what’re we waiting for? Let’s jump into the Lync pool J

I have made a few assumptions before delving into this. They are mentioned here for your ease.

a) An Active Directory server

b) Fresh installation of Windows Server 2008 R2 with all the windows updates and patches joined to your domain. (I used Vmware for virtualization but its up to your preference what you may use for virtualization. If you have spare server then by all means deploy everything on individual server).

c) The login alias should be a domain admin or a member of an equivalent group.

d) Installation of AD certificate services for certificate generation.

e) Install the RSAT role from the server manager (AD DS and AD LST are required) for remote schema update. Net Framework 3.5 installation is also required which will be prompted automatically and should be installed if you are not using Windows 2008 R2.

f) Install IIS. You can use this command to also install IIS but it’s your call how you want to do it.

g) Instal SilverLight needed for installation. (download link in the glossary)

*dramatic voice* Now you are worthy enough to venture on this journey. It has many perils but stay focused on what I have to say and you will venture through.

Well.. once all that  is done you can insert the ISO into the virtual machine of burn a cd if you’re using an optical drive for installation and you will see this window in Internet Explorer. We are installing the server so we will choose the left Install button for server installation.

It will first ask you for the Visual C++ Redist installation. Click Yes to install it.

Once the installation for Visual C++ is complete you will see another window prompting the directory for the installation (changeable). If you are installing it on another partition other than C: you still need to have a bigger size of the C: partition as most of the files still end up in C Drive.

Accept the license agreement here. (STOP!! If you don’t accept it )

The next windows would be a little familiar to people who have been working with the previous version of Communication server offerings of Microsoft. This is the deployment wizard.

Let’s choose the first AD preparation steps. In my case the screenshot has all the steps completed. They ran smoothly for me since before I mentioned that the account that I used to login the server with is a Domain Admin as well as Local Admins.

Once all the steps are completed for you, you can click back to go to the deployment wizard and click the Install or update Lync Server 2010.

Once all the steps are completed for you, you can click back to go to the deployment wizard and click the Install or update Lync Server 2010.

It’s time to install the Topology Builder via the main deployment screen, when this completes you gain a green tick to signify a successful install.

The next step is funny enough because now we need to make our Topology for Lync Server 2010 for this you have to go to start menu > Microsoft Lync Server (RC) > Lync Server Topology Builder.

The Popup will come up now click New Topology and Ok.

It will ask you to choose a save file/location I saved it as WhatDoUC. Next you are asked for your primary SIP domain, I’ll be using my test AD domain for this which is WhatDoUC.net (see below).

Click next, I didn’t choose to add any additional SIP domains. On next screen type the name of your site which is in my case WhatDoUC

Click Next and put Site Details which you can see below.

It’s completed now click on “Open the New Front End Wizard” and click Finish.

Now you’ll need to define the New Front End pool.

Click Next. Define the Front End Pool FQDN which is in my case Lync.WhatDoUC.net also I am using Standard Edition Server you can choose it on your own.

You will be asked to select the features required and therefore destined to be collocated, I’ll be installing Conferencing (without Dial-in, I’m not going for PSTN voice integration for this lab setup), Enterprise Voice and Call Admission Control.

Click Next. I am not going to collocate Mediation Server you can choose it your own.

Here I am going to click next without more roles because of my limited sources.

Here I don’t need to define my SQL store as my Standard Edition will perform the SQL Express installation automatically.

Here we’ll need to create a file share, create it locally and ensure the account you are currently using to run the topology builder has read/write access to this folder. I’ll call my folder and share name “Share”.

The next screen will ask about External URL which is in my case “Lync.WhatDoUC.net”

Now we are back to Topology Builder and we have to edit Topology so click on Edit Topology.

Now you need to add an administrative URL, in my case https://admin.WhatDoUC.net and select the front end server to install your CMS on (all things being equal you should have one option here which will your previously specified pool FQDN).

We are all set to publish our topology! To do so select this option from the right hand side of the main topology builder screen.

Here I want to tell you that if you followed the entire guide correctly validation should succeed, now click next on the publish topology wizard.

Click Next also Accept the front end pool default by clicking next.

Now we are back to the Lync Server Deployment Wizard, now accessible via the start menu. Choose Install or Update Lync Server System to continue.

At first step (Install Local Configuration Store) click Run.

Click Next and upon completion click Finish.

Now step 2 to install Lync Server Components.

After completion Re-Start your server and log in back to server and start the Wizard from Start Menu.

It’s time to Step 3 is where certificates are requested and assigned to the server and both internal/external web services. Click request.

On next screen click next.

Select your CA Server which is in my case my Active Directory, click next until you see the option to specify a friendly name, I’ll use WhatDoUC.

Choose friendly organization names, country, state/city and click next.

Now configure and accept subject alternate names (SAN) – this is where a single certificate can handle multiple common names or domain names. In my case I’ll accept my locally configured SIP domain. You can add additional names where you have a public facing FQDN, click finish to execute certificate commands. The assign the requested certificates. Click Finish.

On completion the following screen will appear.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm ! It’s time to start Services and after that check the services status.

Here we are ready to run Lync Server 2010 control Panel than what are you waiting for?

Glossary:

01. Lync Server 2010 RC

02. Sliver Light Player

So guys in next post we will start making & enabling users.

I have tried to be informative and went in details as much as possible. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me or comment on the post.

Hope you have as much deploying this new server as I had writing it.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/gulfinfra/archive/2010/09/17/lync-server-2010-lab-deployment-guide-part-2-3-amp-4.aspx

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