Category Archives: Powershell

Issues Upgrading to Teams Native mode when using Cloudflare DNS

Recently I ran into an issue upgrading my test Teams tenant from hybrid Skype4B mode to Teams only mode. When running I was getting an error advising that one of my domains was currently homed on a Skype for Business deployment, interestingly a domain that has never had Skype4B on it. This wasn’t an IP… Read More »

Faster Sonus/Ribbon Log File Analysis with PowerShell

Have you ever written a cool tool, put it up on GitHub and then totally forgotten to tell everyone about it? Well, I wrote a call Sonus/Ribbon PowerShell log parser and forgot to tell everyone. And it’s super embarrassing! Why? I got so sick and tired of firing up Ribbons on “LX” tool every single… Read More »

More MCOValidationErrors and chasing squirrels in ADSIEdit

The experienced around here know an article is going to be good when I mention ADSI edit. But for those that don’t know, ADSI edit is one of the more dangerous Active Directory tools allowing Administrators to edit things directly, even if they have no idea what that means. I hear a lot about how… Read More »

Can’t Migrate Licensed Teams User – Licensing Error

I ran into an interesting one today that had me scratching my head as to why we couldn’t move a user from Skype for Business On-Prem to Microsoft Teams. Whenever we attempted to move a small bunch of users from on-prem to Teams the Skype for Business PowerShell Move-CsUser cmdlet would throw the error. The… Read More »

High-Performance PowerShell Pipeline Input for Office365

I figured we would take a small deviation from my normal posts on Skype and Teams related stuff and talk more about optimizing your PowerShell scripts with Office365 or any other service that can take some time to perform actions. If you’re working with Office365 on any sort of professional level, it’s highly likely you… Read More »

Preparing for Teams: Cleaning up your old Response Groups

As part of my Preparing for Teams series, one of the things we need to consider depending on your migration strategy is cleaning up users in your On-Prem Skype for Business Response Groups. By default when we Move a user from Skype to Teams or Disable the user account in Skype4B. The users SIP address… Read More »

Preparing for Teams: Export your On-Prem LIS data for CQD

Do you have an on-premises deployment of Lync or Skype for Business? Have you spent ages getting your Location Data correct in your on-prem deployment? Are you moving to Microsoft Teams, or potentially using the new Skype 2019 Call Quality Dashboard connector and need a way to populate it with Building Data? Good news! I… Read More »

Preparing for Teams: Export all your Exchange UM Prompts quickly!

A nice quick post today. Let’s say you’re in the middle of migrating your aging Lync or Skype for Business deployment over to a new platform. Well with Office365 no longer supporting Exchange UM, there is a need to export your existing UM prompts so you can import them into Teams Auto Attendants. (or your… Read More »