Author: --Anand--

Being in Silicon Valley for years, I became a IT Infrastructure Geek by experience and surrounded by other Geeks everywhere. I try to help others by the solutions I found on odd occasions.

Use Lync 2013 client with Office Communications Server 2007 R2


As a first step to upgrade to Lync 2013 environment it’s better to push Lync 2013 client to all user’s computers and enable Lync 2013 to see OCS 2007 R2 servers. It’s as simple as adding an registry key. Disabling Server version check on the registry makes Lync 2013 client to see the OCS 2007 … Continue reading Use Lync 2013 client with Office Communications Server 2007 R2 →

Use Lync 2013 client with Office Communications Server 2007 R2


As a first step to upgrade to Lync 2013 environment it’s better to push Lync 2013 client to all user’s computers and enable Lync 2013 to see OCS 2007 R2 servers. It’s as simple as adding an registry key. Disabling Server version check on the registry makes Lync 2013 client to see the OCS 2007 … Continue reading Use Lync 2013 client with Office Communications Server 2007 R2 →

RDS Session Host issue in Windows 2008 R2


One of the RDS session host in the farm is trouble opening any RDS consoles (RemoteApp Manager or Session Host Configuration). I get this error message: “The sessions for this RD Session Host server cannot be retrieved. The remove server does not support running RemoteApp Manager remotely” To be sure I wasn’t running the RemoteApp … Continue reading RDS Session Host issue in Windows 2008 R2 →

Exchange Server 2010: What’s your Server name in Outlook profile?


Is your user’s Outlook profile has specific CAS Server instead of CAS array name? When user creates a new Outlook profile, Outlooks reads the mailbox’s server name from the Exchange and AD and sets up automatically. You are wondering why the Auto Discovery finds a specific CAS server name, not the CAS Array name. If … Continue reading Exchange Server 2010: What’s your Server name in Outlook profile? →

PowerShell: List users from a specific OU


Here is the command to list all users from specific OU in Active Directory. Import-Module ActiveDirectory Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase "ou=ouname,dc=company,dc=com" If you don’t know the OU name in distinguished name, 1. open Active Directory Users and Computers, enable Advanced Features in the menu, open the OU properties, go to Attribute Editor and open distinguishedName … Continue reading PowerShell: List users from a specific OU →