Lync – Get-MCsPool

by Karl Bustamante | Jul 8, 2014 | Lync 2010, Lync 2013, Microsoft, Powershell

When you look for a simple way to get all Lync Server topology, you probably will do a Get-CsPool command. But here, you don’t see the sites and the output is not coming in a easily readable way.

The script below will let you Show all information at once.

Get-MCsPool will show you your infrastructure in an easy way :

function Get-MCsPool{

	foreach ($site in Get-Cssite){ 
		Write-Host "Site : " $site.Displayname "( " -NoNewline -ForegroundColor Green
		if ($site.Description -notlike ""){
			Write-Host $site.Description")" -foregroundcolor Green
		}else{
			Write-Host "No description" -foregroundcolor DarkRed -NoNewline
			Write-Host " )" -foregroundcolor Green
		}
		$pools = $site | select -ExpandProperty pools
		foreach ($pool in $pools){
			$boolDiscovered = $false
			[array]$ServerType = ""
		
			Write-Host "Pool : " $pool -ForegroundColor Cyan -NoNewline
			$services = Get-CsPool $pool | select -ExpandProperty services #Get all services from the current pool
			
			If ($Site.ParentSite -ne $Null){ #SBA
				if ($services.count -ge 2){
					$ServerType += "Survivable Branch Appliance"
					$boolDiscovered = $true
				}else{
					$ServerType += " PSTN Gateway "
					$boolDiscovered = $true
				}
			}else{ #NO SBA
			
				$PoolComputersCount = (get-cspool $pool | select -ExpandProperty computers ).count #Get the computer numbers in a pool
	 			if ($PoolComputersCount -ge 2){ #POOL SERVERS (If there is 2 or more computers
					$findOut = $services -match '.*Registrar:([a-zA-Z]).*'
        			if ($findOut) {
						$ServerType += "Enterprise Edition Pool"
						$boolDiscovered = $true
					}
					$findOut = $services -match '.*PersistentChatService:([a-zA-Z]).*'
        			if ($findOut) {
						$ServerType += "Persistent Chat Pool"
        				$boolDiscovered = $true
					}
					$findOut = $services -match '.*TrustedApplicationPool:([a-zA-Z]).*'
        			if ($findOut) {
						$ServerType += "Trusted Application Pool"
        				$boolDiscovered = $true
					}
					$findOut = $services -match '.*EdgeServer:([a-zA-Z]).*'
        			if ($findOut) {
						$ServerType += "EDGE Pool"
        				$boolDiscovered = $true
					}
			
				}else{ #STANDALONE SERVERS (Only one computer)
	    			$findOut = $services -match '.*Registrar:([a-zA-Z]).*'
        			if ($findOut) {
						$Registrar = $findOut -replace "Registrar:",""
						$ServerType += "Standard Edition Pool"
						$boolDiscovered = $true
        			}
					$findOut = $services -match '.*PstnGateway:([a-zA-Z]).*'
        			if ($findOut) {
						$ServerType += "PSTN Gateway"
        				$boolDiscovered = $true
					}
					$findOut = $services -match '.*EdgeServer:([a-zA-Z]).*'
        			if ($findOut) {
						$ServerType += "EDGE Server"
        				$boolDiscovered = $true
					}
					$findOut = $services -match '.*MonitoringServer:([a-zA-Z]).*'
        			if ($findOut) {
						$ServerType += "Monitoring Server"
        				$boolDiscovered = $true
					}
					$findOut = $services -match '.*ArchivingServer:([a-zA-Z]).*'
        			if ($findOut) {
						$ServerType += "Archiving Server"
        				$boolDiscovered = $true
					}
					$findOut = $services -match '.*WacServer:([a-zA-Z]).*'  #Lync 2013
        			if ($findOut) {
						$ServerType += "Office Web Apps Server"
        				$boolDiscovered = $true
					}else{
						$findOut = $services -match '.*WacService:([a-zA-Z]).*' #Lync 2010
						if ($findOut) {
							$ServerType += "Office Web Apps Server"
        					$boolDiscovered = $true
						}
					}
					$findOut = $services -match '.*TrustedApplicationPool:([a-zA-Z]).*'
        			if ($findOut) {
						$ServerType += "Trusted Application Server"
        				$boolDiscovered = $true
					}
					$findOut = $services -match '.*FileStore:([a-zA-Z]).*'
        			if ($findOut) {
						$ServerType += "File Server"
        				$boolDiscovered = $true
					}
					$findOut = $services -match '.*ApplicationDatabase:([a-zA-Z]).*'
        			if ($findOut) {
						$ServerType += "SQL Server"
        				$boolDiscovered = $true
					}
					$findOut = $services -match '.*PersistentChatServer:([a-zA-Z]).*'
        			if ($findOut) {
						$ServerType += "Persistent Chat Server"
        				$boolDiscovered = $true
					}
				}#End pool or no pool
			
			}#end sba or no sba		
			
			if (!$boolDiscovered){ #If the variable is false, it means the service is unknown
				Write-Host " (N/A)" -ForegroundColor Gray -NoNewline
			}else{#If the variable is true, it means the service was discovered
				foreach ($type in $ServerType){
					if ($type -notlike ""){
						if (($type -like "*Edition*") -or ($type -like "Survivable*")){ #For the main pools, Write in Yellow
							Write-Host " ["$type" ]" -ForegroundColor Yellow -NoNewline
						}else{
							Write-Host " ["$type" ]" -ForegroundColor DarkCyan -NoNewline #For the normal service types, write in darkcyan
						}
					}
				}
			}
			Write-Host "" #Add a return after each line
		}#Close Pools foreach
	}#Close Site foreach
}#Close Get-MCsPool function

Lync 2013 – Activate Unified Contact Store

by Karl Bustamante | Apr 10, 2014 | Lync 2013, Microsoft, Powershell

This post will explain the Unified Contact Store on Microsoft Lync 2013 and Exchange 2013 deployments.

What is this?

This is a feature who will share the contacts between all the Microsoft Office products. In fact, it will store all contact information in Exchange 2013 and make it available for :

• Lync Client 2013
• Exchange 2013
• Outlook 2013
• Outlook Web Access 2013

This makes the contacts available globally in the organization.

Prerequisites

You must be running Microsoft Lync Server 2013 and Exchange 2013.

• Users must use Lync 2013 to initiate the migration of contacts from Lync Server 2013 to Exchange 2013.
• User mailboxes must be migrated to Exchange 2013.
• You must have server-to-server authentication (Oauth) configured between Lync Server 2013 and Exchange 2013.
• Lync 2010 Client and older versions will not be able to work with UCS (they can only read contacts).

I will explain the process of creating an Oauth partnership with Exchange 2013 in my next post.

Activation

Ensure you get all the prerequisites before activating.

In order to test it, create a User Policy that you will assign to you before enabling everyone :

New-CsUserServicesPolicy -Identity "UserSvcPolicy-UCSEnabled" -UcsAllowed $True
Grant-CsUserServicesPolicy -Identity "JohnDoeAdmin" -PolicyName "UserSvcPolicy-UCSEnabled"

After you see everything is working fine, you can activate UCS for all users, you only need to change the Global User Service Policy using PowerShell:

Set-CsUserServicesPolicy -Identity global -UcsAllowed $True

Check

On outlook 2013, got to Contacts and verify you have the Lync Contacts folder as in the picture :

On Lync Client, check the Lync Configuration Information page (Pres Ctrl and right click the Lync icon, then go to Configuration Information).

It may be an entry named Contact List Provider. It may have changed to UCS instead of Lync Server.