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2 responses to “Exchange UM Language Pack not applying for some users”

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   David Page

   November 13, 2013

   Pretty cool, and a nice little window for someone who has absolutely no idea really of the technicalities of what his best mate does. From a linguistic perspective one can understand why users make the mistake. Quite often GB is the only alternative to US spelling option afforded in setup / select language scenarios. I would be interested to know, now the issue is identified, what the process is for developing and deploying the fix to avoid having to manually change each time the error occurs.

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      Damien Margaritis

      November 13, 2013

      Excellent question Dave, and I appreciate you keeping me on my toes!

      To (at least partly) answer your question, here’s a PowerShell script that identifies any users in Active Directory that have been enabled for Lync but their msExchUserCulture is not set to en-AU:

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      $strFilter = “(&(objectCategory=User)(msRTCSIP-UserEnabled=TRUE)(!(msExchUserCulture=en-AU)))”

      $objDomain = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry

      $objSearcher = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher
      $objSearcher.SearchRoot = $objDomain
      $objSearcher.Filter = $strFilter
      $objSearcher.SearchScope = “Subtree”

      $colProplist = “name”
      foreach ($i in $colPropList){$objSearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add($i)}

      $colResults = $objSearcher.FindAll()

      foreach ($objResult in $colResults)
      {$objItem = $objResult.Properties; $objItem.name}

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      I say partly answer your question because this will only identify users that are incorrectly configured. A little more work required from my end to take the output from above and feed into another PowerShell cmdlet that sets msExchUserCulture to the correct regional setting.

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