Lync 2013 Client With OCS Registry Hack, The PowerShell Way

I have been formatting my desktop quite a bit these days. And I realised that each time I format, I need to do all the usual stuff and hacks to get things working the way it did. One of them, is of course, the registry hack to get Lync 2013 to connect to the OCS server at my company.

So I decided to do this the powershell way. Turns out it was just 2 really simple commands:

New-Item HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Lync -Force
New-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Lync -Name DisableServerCheck -Type DWord -Value 1

Do remember that you have to run PowerShell with Administrator rights.

UPDATE: Now that skype for business 2016 is launched, it's time to update the script a little. Use this one below instead.

New-Item HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Lync -Force
New-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Lync -Name DisableServerCheck -Type DWord -Value 1