Account names used for New-CsHealthMonitoringConfiguration need to be less than 16 characters long 1

[58sniper]

If you're configuring synthetic test accounts for use in Lync, you need to use the New-CsHealthMonitoringConfiguration cmdlet. When you do, if your test accounts have a samaccountname that is more than 15 characters, you'll get a fairly obscure error message:

New-CsHealthMonitoringConfiguration : Cannot create item "usfwa1l14fepool1.domain.com": "Invalid value for FirstTestSamAccountName. Value must match pattern:[^\\/:\*\?\"<>\|\.][^\\/:\*\?\"<>\|]{0,14}\\[^\\/:\*\?\"<>\|\.][^\\/:\*\?\"<>\|]{0,14}"
At line:1 char:36
+ New-CsHealthMonitoringConfiguration <<<<  -identity usfwa1l14fepool1.domain.com  -FirstTestUserSipUri "sip:SVC-EIS-LyncSynTest1@domain.com" -FirstTestSamAccountName "Corp\SVC-EIS-LyncSynTest1" -SecondTestUserSipUri "sip:SVC-EIS-LyncSynTest2@domain.com" -SecondTestSamAccountName "Corp\SVC-EIS-LyncSynTest2"
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (usfwa1l14fepool1.domain.com
   :String) [New-CsHealthMonitoringConfiguration], PropertyArgumentException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidNew,Microsoft.Rtc.Management.Internal.New
   HealthMonitoringConfigurationCmdlet

The documentation for the cmdlet,

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398718.aspx,

doesn't mention a requirement for length. When you look at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms679635(v=vs.85).aspx,

you see that from a Windows perspective, the name can usually be up to 19 characters.

If you shorten the samaccountname to 15 characters or less, New-CsHealthMonitoringConfiguration will work.

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