Associating Skype's user name with the phone number!

Question

Hello there, I always love using Skype but I haven't been using it that much recently due to the rise of other video chat apps like FaceTime. I think one of the struggles that Skype users face is the need to know their friends exact user name or email address. In my opinion, adding the ability to associate Skype user name with a phone number (like Whatsapp & FaceTime) would make it much more convenient and will help Skype to spread to more users especially with the availability on all phones OS.

Answer 1

Hi jjthexer,
here, I'll throw in a frame you can use by adding the meat of the script into it:
# The path where you store your csv file that includes the user-information
$path = "C:\ExampleFolder\example.csv"
# Load the Csv file into PowerShell
$users = Import-Csv $path
# Now do for each of those
foreach ($User in $users)
# Step 1: Check whether the user exists
# Step 2: If it exists, add telephone number to AD object
You'll need to figure out how to fill out the foreach loop yourself (there are plenty of learning ressources here on technet to do so on your own), or wait until someone else cheats and tells you more ;).
Noticed that I changed the "Get-Content" into "Import-Csv"? It alters the way you receive the data. Suffice to say, Import-Csv is cooler when dealing with Csv files. Try out these two commands (after declaring the path variable to your csv file) to see the
difference:
(Get-Content $path)[1] | FL *
(Import-Csv $path)[0] | FL *
Another thing you used is the add-pssnapin command. What this does is load the Quest Commands to access the Active Directory. For it to work, you need to have these installed. There is a Microsoft native command set that is available on all computers that
have an AD Management Console. Either of those will work, if you meet the stated prerequisites. Both are best placed at the head of the script. Here are the two commands again for reference:
# Load Quest AD Cmdlets
Add-PSSnapin quest.activeroles.admanagement
# Load Microsoft AD Cmdlets
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
Hopefully, that info will be of some help to you :)
Cheers,
Fred
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