Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Lync 2010 User Contacts backup before we migrate to Lync 2013 pool

Hello All Readers,

This post is about to take backup of individual users Contacts List in Lync 2010 pool. The main purpose of this post is that I was tried moving few of the users to Lync 2013 pool by selecting "Force" option under moving users from one pool to other pool.

Unfortunately one of my users contacts list got deleted or not moved successfully.

To prevent such issues it's better we take backup of Lync 2010 users in Lync 2010 Shell console as shown below:

NOTE : Backup shown below is individual user contact list backup


Start the Lync Shell with elevated rights & go to this path :
PS C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Lync Server 2010\Support>

Run this command:


PS C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Lync Server 2010\Support> .\DBImpExp.exe /user:anand@domain.com /hrxmlfile:"D:\Lync2010_User_Contacts_Bkp\20_Oct_2014\anand.xml"

Below is the screenshot:


Above shell command has taken the backup successfully.

Go to the above path, it will create the .xml file with above name.



Regards
Anand S