GotSpeechGuy

It is reasonable to think that not all users in your AD are Lync users so there may be times when you will want to know how many Lync  users you have. That happened to me the other day as my boss at NextUC asked me that question. So I thought I would show you an easy way to count your users and even tell what type they are.

To get a count of your enterprise voice users you can use this PowerShell snippet:

$list = Get-CsUser | where {$_.LineUri -ne “”}

$list.Count

If you need to see the users you can just write out the contents of $list but in our case we take advantage of the $list.Count method of the $list object to get the total number of enterprise users.

To get a count of your messenger users we just need to modify the PowerShell snippet slightly:

$list = Get-CsUser | where {$_.LineUri -eq “”}

$list.Count

Why not use EnterpriseVoiceEnabled Property?

That’s all there is to it; we simply take advantage of the fact that enterprise users have their phone number in the LineUri property. You may be wondering why I didn’t just check the EnterpriseVoiceEnabled property. Well, in my case I can’t trust the value of EnterpriseVoiceEnabled. We are a hosting company and sometimes I need to temporarily disable an enterprise voice user so I set EnterpriseVoiceEnabled to false but leave the rest of the Lync properties alone. That makes LineUri  a more reliable property to use for me but if you don’t have that issue then you could just modify the snippets to use EnterpriseVoiceEnabled.