Thomas.Poett@TEAMS (MVP Teams and Cross-Tenant M&A/D Migration Expert Lead)

You for your information, with Lync 2013 some former tools are depreciated. While in LCS, OCS and Lync 2010 exporting the user data was done with the dbimpexp.exe utility. Now with Lync 2013 new EXPORT-CSxxx commands are integrated within the Lync Management Shell. Convert-CsUserData Import-CsUserData Sync-CsUserData Update-CsUserData As we now from former days, we had to use DBIMPEXP to extract the user data, e.g. the Lync buddy list, to export data directly out of the RTC database. Lync 2013 made the export functions more convenient and added PowerShell commands to do a more simplified export. With this EXPORT-CSxxx commands, you can export: User Data Conference Directories LIS (Location Information Service) - E911 Data RGS - Response Group Data Persistent Chat Data With the Convert-CsUserData command, you are able to convert former XML formats into the actual Lync 2013 format. But if you need to convert Lync 2013 data backward to Lync 2010, you need ...

Lync duplicated phone number or H ow to compare Lync vs. Active Directory user setting I had some issues at a customer site, where the customer was not handling user activation and de-activation in a proper way. So I was guessing we had duplicated phone numbers. Therefor it is necessary identifying which object was involved. No tool can be provided, as once more, scripting is necessary. You need to do some exports and compare it manually. ISSUE: The issue was, if a user X try to make a PSTN call, Lync Client announced:   Call cannot be initiated. Multiple Contacts exist including your phone number.    I suggested, we have an inconsistency between the Lync Server Database and Active Directory Lync Attribute msRTCSIP-Line. Now we need a way to figure out where the other phone number was assigned. Truly we know, it was not AD related, so it must be in the Lync Server User Database. Here the process how we were searching for the duplicated Phone Numb...