Assess your software usage and evaluate your licensing needs for Lync

The Software Usage Tracking feature in MAP 7.0 Beta is broadened to include Lync 2010. For Lync 2010, MAP provides a server inventory and software usage by device and user for Lync Standard features. MAP’s updated Software Usage Tracking feature provides consistent software usage reports for key Microsoft products including Windows Server, SQL Server, System Center, Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP), and now Lync.

Sounds like a good feature right?

To join the beta review program for Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 7.0, visit Microsoft Connect:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=171065

It wasn’t that easy finding this, so if someone need information on FOPE and especially Exchange Hosted Encryption see these links.

Policy Rules – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff715218.aspx

Exchange Hosted Email Encryption Service Subscription in FOPE – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/exchange-hosted-email-encryption-service-subscription-in-fope.aspx

Understanding E-mail Encryption Settings in FOPE for EHE Subscribers – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff715033.aspx

Create, Read, or Reply to an Encrypted Message – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff715098.aspx

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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/10976.lync-user-tips-tricks-and-tweaks-for-better-productivity.aspx

The first part to why you should use it can be found here: http://www.ultimate-communications.com/2012/01/productivity-tips-use-presentation-mode-when-you-dont-want-to-be-disturbed/

So, How do you enable it?

Just hit start and type “presentation” and hit enter. That should open up the Adjust settings before giving a presentation app.

EDIT: Pat Richard gave a great comment: If you do a lot of presentations, you can create a shortcut to “C:\Windows\System32\PresentationSettings.exe” which will bring up the dialog box at the click of a button.

In the Presentation Settings just mark the “I am currently giving a presentation” box and hit OK. And it might be a good idea to switch background to a nice company logo instead of that Diablo 3 pic that you have now.

This will result in the toast that pops up are a little more discreet.

And as you can see below it just says “Tommy Clarke is inviting you to a conversation.”

If we turn off the presentation mode, it would have shoved this instead.

Well that’s not an IM I want in front of 250 people

These accounts don’t have a username and password so the only way to access them are via the open other mailbox option in OWA or to add it as a secondary mailbox in Outlook.

And in OWA there is no option to mark every item, so let’s say you have 20.000 deleted items that you want to recover, well then this is not an option.
And if you have added it as a secondary mailbox in your outlook 2007/2010 then you will not see recover deleted items for shared mailbox folders, unless you do the old registry edit.

To enable the recover delete item button for shared mailboxes you need to enable a registry setting manually.

1. Start the registry editor
   
2. Locate and then click the following key in the registry:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange\Client\Options
   

   (If there is no Option folder, just create it)
   

3. On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following DWORD value:
   DWORD name: DumpsterAlwaysOn
   Data type: DWORD
   Value data: 1
   
4. Close the registry editor
   

Now restart Outlook and the option to recover deleted items is now there.

*This post would have had picture in it, but 20.000 items takes like 30 minutes to recover and it kinds of locks Outlook so this is the only picture I could get

head to http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=16857

I did search a while to find if there were someway to recover this via PowerShell and then found their blog.

From the description:

“We had a request recently for a sample PowerShell script that shows how to recover deleted items from and Exchange 2010 mailbox. While not possible (as far as I am aware) using any standard Exchange cmdlets, it is certainly possible using the EWS Managed API.
The script has been written so that it can be automated quite easily. The scenario that the script was originally requested for was to be able to run such a script against a large number of mailboxes where items had been mistakenly deleted. The script parameters are…”

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/emeamsgdev/archive/2012/04/27/powershell-script-to-recover-all-deleted-items-in-a-mailbox.aspx

First connected with PowerShell to Exchange Online Service.

a. Install and configure Windows PowerShell.
b. Connect PowerShell to Exchange Online service.

To change the default RetentionPolicyTag for all users run.

Set-RetentionPolicyTag -Identity “Deleted Items” -AgeLimitForRetention 90

To verify all retention policy that are applied to a specific mailbox , please take the following steps.

c. Disable the current RPT applied to the Deleted Item Folders, by running the following  cmdlet using PowerShell.
Set-RetentionPolicyTag “Deleted Items” -RetentionEnabled $false

d. Create a new retention policy tag for the default folder “Deleted Items” by using the following command:

New-RetentionPolicyTag “Exec -Default” -Type All -RetentionEnabled $true -AgeLimitForRetention 90 -RetentionAction DeleteandAllowRecovery

This example creates a retention policy tag for the default folder Deleted Items. When the tag is applied to a mailbox, items in the Deleted Items folder are deleted after 90 day.

After that, create a new retention policy or set up a current policy to link to the newly created retention policy tag.

e. Use PowerShell to apply the retention policy to Deleted Items

Set-Mailbox ” Deleted Items” -RetentionPolicy Execs

The following command applies the retention policy named Execs to Deleted Items:

I’m not sure if its new or if I just haven’t ever seen it before?

If you haven’t seen them yet you should start download them now.
The single one best thing and why I always download movies to watch from my hard drive is that I can speed it up. In Windows Media Player just hit ctrl + shift +g +g and you will watch a 1 hour webcast in like 40 minutes or something, saving you time so you can watch some more.

To save some extra time you can download all the Technet Edge Lync videos via PowerShell with a one-liner.

First download and read through Jan Egil Rings great PowerShell script from his blog.

http://blog.powershell.no/2012/05/06/download-technet-edge-videos-using-windows-powershell/

Second fire up PowerShell and run the following from the folder where you downloaded the script to.

.\Get-WebVideoFile.ps1 -RssUrl “http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/SyndicationGetTopics/cc543196.aspx?field=Category&value=Lync&ancestor=ff524487&version=MSDN.10″ –Destination “C:\TechNetEdgeLyncVideos\”

You should/could of course change the Destination path to a folder better suited for your needs.