Questions on Lync 2010 to 2013 Addressbook Migration

Question

Hi Team,
We are in the process of migrating the users from Lync 2010 to Lync 2013 pilot pool.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj205160.aspx
According to the above article, basically the Lync Server 2010 Address Book is migrated along with the rest of your topology and don’t have to worry about the post migration steps if we don’t have customized settings such as GAL partition (By setting
up an attribute ‘msRTCSIP-GroupingID’), customized AB normalization rules and customized phone normalization rules.
Questions:
1. How do we confirm that there is no customized settings of phone normalization, AB normalization and GAL partition in the existing Lync 2010 environment?
2. Is there any powershell command to validate the current Lync 2010 settings?
Please advise.
Many Thanks.

Answer 1

The grouping ID is not something you'd normally put in.  If all users can search for and see all other users, you'd be fine.
For the AB normalization look for Company_Phone_Number_Normalization_Rules.txt in your Lync file share in
X-WebServices-X\ABFiles (replace the X with whatever you see).  If you have one, you could copy it over to your new Lync 2013 file share.  This file is for normalizing phone numbers found in AD.  To validate current settings, you can run
the BPA http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4750 but if you're moving away from it, I wouldn't kill myself resolving issues.  From PowerShell, there
are many things you could validate, is there something specific you're worried about?
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