Note to self

So its been a busy few weeks. Just to keep me on my toes we had an issue with a skype/lync client that couldnt sign in. The client just sat at 'attempting to contact server' with no error message. Test-CSClientAuthentication to the rescue. Although you do need to have the user close by for authentication. To cut a long story short - Active Directory attribute DisplayName had hidden line feed/carriage return characters. Once these were removed the client signed straight in.

Whenever I do criteria for searchquery with dates I always manage to get inconsistent result. (this is a throwback post to exchange 2010). Normally due to date formatting. So, note to self - the date format is yyyy-MM-dd when using -searchquery