SCCM Powershell Module

Today, I found a module for use with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). This module contains the following functions:

• Get-SCCMCommands
• Connect-SCCMServer
• Get-SCCMObject
• Get-SCCMPackage
• Get-SCCMCollection
• Get-SCCMAdvertisement
• Get-SCCMDriver
• Get-SCCMDriverPackage
• Get-SCCMTaskSequence
• Get-SCCMSite
• Get-SCCMImagePackage
• Get-SCCMOperatingSystemInstallPackage
• Get-SCCMBootImagePackage
• Get-SCCMComputer
• Get-SCCMUser
• Get-SCCMCollectionMembers
• Get-SCCMSubCollections
• Get-SCCMParentCollection
• Get-SCCMSiteDefinition
• Get-SCCMSiteDefinitionProps
• Get-SCCMIsR2
• Get-SCCMCollectionRules
• Get-SCCMInboxes
• New-SCCMCollection
• Add-SCCMCollectionRule
• Add-SCCMDirUserCollectionRule 

To install follow instructions in the link...

Command Line user details

I was shown this by one of my delegates today. I hadnt realised that you could get login information, password information etc by running the following comand from a cmd prompt:

c:\net user username /domain
You can also use it in WIN7 as seen below

SIP Trunking and media bypass

SIP trunking has become a common term in the Microsoft worlds of OCS R2 and Lync Server 2010. Many Microsoft administrators had never heard of SIP so the learning curve has been pretty steep.

I found a reference to this animation which includes Media bypass as well, apologies but cant remember where, so thought I would include it.

Its on the techtionary website and belongs to them and the author.

Here it is
http://www.techtionary.com/lyncforum/lync-bypass/

Lync Downloads

Official download pages:
TechCenter Lync Downloads Server and Client Downloads

Deployment media:
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 180-Day Trial/Evaluation
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Group Chat
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Group Chat Admin Tool
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Planning Tool (RC)
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 PIC Provisioning Page
Unified Communications Managed API 3.0 Runtime

Desktop client installation media:
Microsoft Lync 2010 client Trial x86
Microsoft Lync 2010 client Trial x64
Microsoft Lync 2010 Group Chat Client
Microsoft Lync 2010 Attendant x86
Microsoft Lync 2010 Attendant x64
Microsoft Lync 2010 Attendee – Admin Level Install
Microsoft Lync 2010 Attendee – User Level Install
Microsoft Lync 2010 Phone Edition for Aastra 6721ip and Aastra 6725ip
Microsoft Lync 2010 Phone Edition for Polycom CX500, Polycom CX600 and Polycom CX3000
Microsoft Lync 2010 Phone Edition for Polycom CX700 and LG-Nortel IP Phone 8540

Mobile client installation media:

Testing and Training:
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 TechEd Videos fall 2010
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 On Demand Labs
Microsoft Lync 2010 Training ppt’s

Troubleshooting
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit Tools
Microsoft Network Monitor 3.3
PortQry Port Scanner Version 2.0

White Papers and Technical Documents:
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 features and how to configure them
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Documentation for IT Pros
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Protocol Workloads Poster
Microsoft Unified Communications Open Interoperability Program
Deploying the BIG-IP LTM with Microsoft Lync Server 2010
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 On Prem or wait for Lync Online?
Microsoft Lync 2010 Pricing and Licensing
Microsoft Lync 2010 Licensing Explained

PowerShell Scripts:
Official Lync Server 2010 PowerShell Blog
SCRIPT: Create new user, enable for Exchange, UM and Lync Server
SCRIPT: Set-Lync2010Windows2008R2Features.ps1

Lync Ignite with Polycom Lync certified Devices

For those who are aware of Lync one of the new really cool features is the release by Polycom and Aastra of Lync certified devices. Normally getting hold of these devices to test and show off is diffcult, but the nice people over at Poly have come to the rescue,and........

Yesterday I received a delivery of some really cool Polycom kit. Specifically the Lync certified devices. The plan is to include them in my deliveries of Lync Ignite. We will be making devices available to delegates as well to test, setup and generally play around with.

Devices that we have to show off are as follows: A roundtable, CX 600 - knowledge worker device, CX 500 Common Area phone, CX 300 USB phone, CX 3000 conference phone, CX 700 "Tanjay" and lastly the CX 100 USB desktop phone.
We will shortly add the CX 4000 and HDX 8000 as well.

So deleagtes who attend a Global Knowledge course will have the opportunity to see and test these devices.

On YouTube there is a video which demonstrates the devices very well and is available here:

Lync Server 2010 - More Powershell Links (Lync's?) for Lync Server 2010

I might have posted this before, but even so its worth doing again. This is the Lync 2020 Powershell blog and is available here and below.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/csps/

Lync Server 2010 - Powershell

Well I thought it would never happen!! I am starting to get hooked on Powershell!
Scripting? AAAARGH I hear you say! Actually its pretty cool stuff.
As I have an interest in these things now i got reminded here at Teched that Ilsa has a really blog, so here it is! Check it out here

And for those who would like the link instead http://blogs.technet.com/b/ilvancri/

Lync Server 2010

So, apologies for not posting for a Long time. Holidays and a spot of illness got in the way.

Lync Server 2010 REALLY rocks. I have been delivering the Lync Server Ignite course!
5 days of really cool labs and good material.

I am at Teched 2010 in Berlin and I dont think that the penny has dropped yet on how much nicer and haw many more features there are in Lync Server compared to 2010 to a lot the lovely people here.

They will find out. I'll post some more in a short while but

RTM is in 2 weeks!!!

OCS and PBX from Toshiba

Well I learnt something new this week!! I was talking in my OCS class about supported PBX's and mentioned the normal suspects, but Neil from Toshiba told me that Toshiba also had a family of communication platforms. Called the Strata family and which unsurpisingly are in use at Toshiba. So I had to check them out!
You can check them out as well here

OCS Gateway Sizing using Erlang B equation

In OCS it is important that we calculate the size of our Gateways correctly when provisioning Enterprise Voice.
We can use Erlang B equation to to this. So, if you go to http://www.erlang.com/calculator/exeb/ then you can use a free online tool to assist you in calulating the Gateway size.
We can use this tool to establish the probability of a port being open. For loads of more information see the website. For more information on OCS see the Microsoft website.

Mini-Microsoft blog

I found this fascinating! I had never heard of KIN, I suppose it was due to be released in Europe at some point. Looks like it will never make it.
 You can read the blog here