There are almost 550 PowerShell cmdlets to manage Lync 2010. I found it difficult to find the entire list of them and finally found that these 2 URLs were the most useful: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398306.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/csps/archive/2010/07/16/refallcmdlets.aspx    

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I came across a great tool that helps troubleshoot DNS issues relating to Lync or OCS sign-in trouble. It queries your SIP domain for the required DNS records, especially helpful to determine which SRV records exist and which need to be added. More info from http://www.insideocs.com/Tools/MOCLogin.htm.    

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I saw this issue again today. Outlook 2007 & 2010 were prompting for username and password at startup and randomly during use. I’ve used this fix a couple of times now. In IIS Manager navigate to the website that contains your Exchange Virtual Directories (In Exchange 2007 this is Default website, in SBS2008 this is [...]

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I’ve recently got my first iPhone and assumed that all of my Windows Media playlists would never work on the iPhone. Well there seems to be a way that worked for me. Save your WMP playlist as an M3U file.  To do this you can use the “Save Playlist As” option from the list pane [...]

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I came across a great post today and thought I would share – reposted straight from http://blogs.msdn.com/b/steverac/archive/2010/12/14/test-remote-sql-connectivity-easily.aspx Have you ever been troubleshooting a problem with remote SQL Iproxy MP, remote DB, etc) and wanted to test to see if the local system account (or any account for that matter) could make a remote connection to [...]

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