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Hi all, few days ago I had to do some clean up tasks at one of our customer. Goal was to disable Lync accounts for users, that do not work for company anymore. It seems like a powershell mission. To get list of disabled AD accounts that still have enabled Lync you can use following line: Get -CsAdUser   -ResultSize   Unlimited |  Where-Object   {$_.UserAccountControl  -match "AccountDisabled"   -and   $_.Enabled  -eq   $true } |  Format-Table   Name,Enabled,SipAddress  -auto Then you can easily remove Lync account by using following line: Get -CsAdUser   -ResultSize   Unlimited |  Where-Object   {$_.UserAccountControl  -match "AccountDisabled"   -and   $_.Enabled} | Disable -CsUser

Hello Guys! In Lync 2013 we have an option delete all or partial content of Persistent Chat Room! This can be easily done by powershell cmdlet Clear-CsPersistentChatRoom. Detail description of that cmdlet can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj204976.aspx And now some examples: his example will remove all content before 1.1.2014 from PChatRoom: Clear-CsPersistentChatRoom -Identity "contoso.com\PChatRoom" -EndDate "1/1/2014" This example will remove all content before 1/1/2014 from all Persistech Chat Rooms: Get-CsPersistentChatRoom | Clear-CsPersistentChatRoom -EndDate "1/1/2014" -Confirm: $False This example will remove content older 180 days from all Persistech Chat Rooms: Get-CsPersistentChatRoom | Clear-CsPersistentChatRoom -EndDate ( [ DateTime ]:: today . AddDays( -180 )) -Confirm: $false

Today I had to installed Persistent Chat to our existing Lync 2013 Standart environement. Plan was use dedicated server for Persistent chat and second dedicated server for SQL Server 2012. Installation was simple as expected. After successfull installation Persistent Chat service could not start. Why? I checked Event Log and found two Events: Event ID 53553: The server is not compatible with the database at Data Source=SQL1.HELL.LOCAL;Initial Catalog=mgc;Integrated Security=SSPI Event ID 53503: Microsoft Lync Server 2013, Persistent Chat could not start due to the following exception:  at Microsoft.Rtc.Internal.Chat.Server.ServerCommon.Exceptions.StopServerException: Unexpected DB version. Problem was not in SQL server version. SQL server 2012 is supported and installation was successfull. Setup process also created necessary databases. Solution was install Lync updates using LyncServerUpdateInstaller.exe utility. Update utility can be downloaded from...

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