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Powershell - Enable Lync 2013 Users Based on Group Membership

I am trying to write a Powershell script that enables Lync users based on their AD group membership.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/meacoex/archive/2011/04/24/powershell-script-get-group-members-and-check-for-users-that-are-not-enabled-for-lync-and-enable-these-users-using-e-mail-address.aspx
I found this script, but it doesn't work. I get this error.

Enable-CsUser : Cannot convert 'System.Object[]' to the type 'Microsoft.Rtc.Management.AD.UserIdParameter' required by parameter 'Identity'. Specified method is not supported.
At C:\Scripts\Lync_Test_Enable.ps1:9 char:25
+ Enable-CsUser -identity $aduser.identity -RegistrarPool lyncse.coex.com -SipAddr ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Enable-CsUser], ParameterBindingException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConvertArgument,Microsoft.Rtc.Management.AD.Cmdlets.EnableOcsUserCmdlet

Any ideas on how to make this a functional script and satisfy the identity parameter?

SubSun

You can try this simple version..replace lyncse.coex.com with your pool name and LyncGroup with your group name

Import-Module activedirectory
Import-Module lync
Get-ADGroupMember LyncGroup | Get-CsAdUser | ? {$_.enabled -ne $true} | Enable-CsUser -RegistrarPool lyncse.coex.com -SipAddressType EmailAddress

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Jakob Digranes

I really cannot take credit for this; but Lasse Nordvik Wedø ---- Lync Master:
http://tech.rundtomrundt.com/p/lync-ps-commands.html

marrj

ASKER

Thanks, but I'm having trouble getting either one of these methods to work.

Subsun, I get an error stating that the "Get-CsAdUser" cannot accept pipelined input or the parameters dont' match the cmdlet being piped.

jakob_di, I believe the "foreach" is missing a parameter or two. It won't run in its current state.

Any more ideas?

marrj

ASKER

jakob_di, I finally got your version to get past the foreach loop, but I run into problems when satisfying the Identity requirement of the CS command, as Get-ADGroupMember.Name does not return something that is usable by the Enable-CsUser command, just as I ran into with my own version.

marrj

ASKER

THis is what pointed me to the use of the "Get-CsAdUser" cmdlet, but I get a similar error about mismatched properties when using it as well.

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marrj

ASKER

Awesome! That worked.

What does the %{} do exactly?

SubSun

% is an alias for ForEach-Object which i used to loop through the results of command Get-ADGroupMember

Refer following article to know more details about ForEach-Object
http://ss64.com/ps/foreach-object.html