Lync – Move On Prem users to Lync Online from CSV

Microsoft detail how to move users from Lync On-Prem to Lync Online and how to bulk move users in an OU or with a particular AD attribute: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj204969%28v=ocs.15%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396. If you want to bulk move users to Lync Online from a CSV you can use the PowerShell below: $creds=Get-Credential Import-Csv movelyncusers.csv -Header Identity | Foreach-Object {Move-CsUser -Identity $_.identity -Target sipfed.online.lync.com -Credential $creds -HostedMigrationOverrideUrl https://admin1e.online.lync.com/HostedMigration/hostedmigrationService.svc} movelyncusers.csv should contain a list of the UPNs of the users you wish to move. No headings are required.

17 April 2015 · 1 min · Chris Hayward

Lync – Office 365 Federation Presence Unknown

A customer was having problems with their Lync 2010 deployment federating with Office 365. When searching for a Lync Online user they would see “Presence Unknown” and be unable to send Instant Messages. They could Federate with other On-Prem Lync organisations OK. They had LyncOnline configured as a Hosted Provider and Partner Domain Discovery Enabled (Dynamic Federation). Their _sipfederationtls._tcp DNS record was configured correctly as was the O365 customer. Using OCSLogger and Snooper on the Edge server I was able to spot the problem. ...

2 April 2015 · 2 min · Chris Hayward