Deploying Lync Server in Multi Forrest\Domain require a FIM (Forefront Identity Manager) to replicate the Object SID from user domain to resource domain.

FIM requires license for a SQL Instance additional WIndows Server and FIM it self. This article describes how to create users in resource domain by copying the attributes from customer domain. Also enable the users in Lync and configure Enterprise Voice by getting the Line URI from a .csv file.

Before getting to users creation, a Trust relationship (Oneway Forests Trust) need to be configured between two domain which will require to get the attributes from customer domain. I’m not going to cover the Trust relationship configuration in this article. below are the users configured in customer domain. notice the “Lync _Users” group. only the users which are added in to this group will get created.

notice the ObjectSid of the “Demo Eight” user

Once the trust relationship is configured with the resource domain and active, run the below command in windows Powershell as an Administrator. change the domain names appropriately (contoso.com = Customer Domain, fabrikam.com.com=Resource Domain)

Import-Module ActiveDirectory

$domain = “dc=contoso,dc=com”

$DC = “contoso-dc01.contoso.com:3268”

$ADSrcGrp = Get-ADGroup -SearchScope Subtree -SearchBase $domain -Server $DC -LDAPFilter “(name=lync_users)”

Get-ADUser -SearchScope Subtree -SearchBase $domain -Filter ‘memberOf -RecursiveMatch $ADSrcGrp.DistinguishedName’ -Server $DC -Properties ObjectSID,name,samAccountName,displayName,givenName,surName,mail | ForEach-Object {New-ADUser -Name $_.name -SamAccountName $_.samAccountName -DisplayName $_.displayName -GivenName $_.givenName -SurName $_.surName -EmailAddress $_.mail -otherAttributes @{‘msRTCSIP-OriginatorSid’=$_.ObjectSID} -Path “OU=AU,DC=fabrikam,DC=local” -UserPrincipalName “$($_.samaccountname)@fabrikam.local” -AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText “P@ssw0rd” -Force) -PasswordNeverExpires $true -Enabled $false}

Users will be created in the below configured OU as disabled users.

notice the msRTCSIP-originatorsid value of “Demo Eight” user.

Now to enable user in to Lync Server. run the below script to enable the user to Lync Server. Specify the Line URI s in to the .csv file to configure Enterprise Voice in to enabled users

Get-CsAdUser -OU “OU=AU,DC=contoso,DC=com” | Enable-CsUser -RegistrarPool “lyncfe01.fabrikam.local” -SipAddressType firstlastname -SipDomain contoso.com

import-csv “c:\Script\EV_Users.csv” | Select-Object * | foreach-object {set-csuser -identity $_.identity -sipaddress $_.SipAddress -LineURI $_.LineURI -EnterpriseVoiceEnabled $True}

this is what the content of the .csv file should looks like

All the users should be now enabled for lync and enabled for Enterprise Voice with a Line URI

now it’s time to test a user to verify that all works fine.

Client signed in successfully with the end user credentials.