Set-CsPersistentChatPolicy

Modifies an existing Persistent Chat policy. Persistent Chat policies determine whether or not users are allowed access to Persistent Chat chat rooms. This cmdlet was introduced in Lync Server 2013.

Syntax

Set-CsPersistentChatPolicy
   [[-Identity] <XdsIdentity>]
   [-Confirm]
   [-Description <String>]
   [-EnablePersistentChat <Boolean>]
   [-Force]
   [-WhatIf]
   [-Tenant <Guid>]
   [<CommonParameters>]
Set-CsPersistentChatPolicy
   [-Confirm]
   [-Description <String>]
   [-EnablePersistentChat <Boolean>]
   [-Force]
   [-Instance <PSObject>]
   [-WhatIf]
   [-Tenant <Guid>]
   [<CommonParameters>]

Description

The Persistent Chat service (which replaces the Group Chat service used in Microsoft Lync Server 2010) provides organizations with messaging and collaboration capabilities similar to those found in Internet discussion forums: users can exchange messages in real-time, yet can also revisit and restart those conversations at any time. Conversations can be based around specific topics and these conversations can be made available to everyone or to only a selected set of users. Likewise, individual chat rooms can be configured so that anyone can post a message or configured so that only designated presenters can post messages.

By default, users are not granted access to the Persistent Chat service; that access can only be granted if the user is managed by a Persistent Chat policy that allows for the user of the service. When you install Skype for Business Server, all your users are managed by a global Persistent Chat policy in which the use of Persistent Chat is disabled. If you want to give all your users access to the service you can simply set the EnablePersistentChat property in this global policy to True. Alternatively, you can create additional policies at the site or at the per-user scope, and thus provide Persistent Chat access to some users while denying this access to other users.

Skype for Business Server Control Panel: To modify an existing Persistent Chat policy using the Skype for Business Server Control Panel, click Persistent Chat, click Persistent Chat Policy, then double-click the policy to be modified.

Examples

-------------------------- Example 1 --------------------------

Get-CsPersistentChatPolicy | Set-CsPersistentChatPolicy -EnablePersistentChat $True

In Example 2, Persistent Chat is enabled for all the Persistent Chat policies in the organization. To do this, the command first uses the Get-CsPersistentChatPolicy cmdlet without any parameters in order to return a collection of all the Persistent Chat policies. This collection is then piped to the Set-CsPersistentChatPolicy cmdlet, which sets the EnablePersistentChat parameter for each policy in the collection to True ($True).

Parameters

-Confirm

Prompts you for confirmation before executing the command.

Type:SwitchParameter
Aliases:cf
Position:Named
Default value:None
Required:False
Accept pipeline input:False
Accept wildcard characters:False
Applies to:Lync Server 2013, Skype for Business Server 2015

-Description

Enables administrators to provide explanatory text to accompany the policy. For example, the Description might include information about the users the policy should be assigned to.

Type:String
Position:Named
Default value:None
Required:False
Accept pipeline input:False
Accept wildcard characters:False
Applies to:Lync Server 2013, Skype for Business Server 2015

-EnablePersistentChat

When set to True users affected by the policy will be allowed to use Persistent Chat. When set to False (the default value) users affected by the policy will not be allowed to use Persistent Chat.

Type:Boolean
Position:Named
Default value:None
Required:False
Accept pipeline input:False
Accept wildcard characters:False
Applies to:Lync Server 2013, Skype for Business Server 2015

-Force

Suppresses the display of any non-fatal error message that might occur when running the command.

Type:SwitchParameter
Position:Named
Default value:None
Required:False
Accept pipeline input:False
Accept wildcard characters:False
Applies to:Lync Server 2013, Skype for Business Server 2015

-Identity

Unique identity of the Persistent Chat policy to be modified. To modify the global policy, use this syntax:

-Identity global

To modify a site-scoped policy, use this syntax:

-Identity site:Redmond

To modify a per-user policy, use syntax similar to this:

-Identity RedmondPolicy

If you do not include the Identity parameter the Set-CsPersistentChatPolicy cmdlet will automatically modify the global policy.

Type:XdsIdentity
Position:2
Default value:None
Required:False
Accept pipeline input:False
Accept wildcard characters:False
Applies to:Lync Server 2013, Skype for Business Server 2015

-Instance

Allows you to pass a reference to an object to the cmdlet rather than set individual parameter values.

Type:PSObject
Position:Named
Default value:None
Required:False
Accept pipeline input:True
Accept wildcard characters:False
Applies to:Lync Server 2013, Skype for Business Server 2015

-Tenant

Globally unique identifier (GUID) of the Skype for Business Online tenant account for whom the Persistent Chat policy is being modified. For example:

-Tenant "38aad667-af54-4397-aaa7-e94c79ec2308"

You can return the tenant ID for each of your Skype for Business Online tenants by running this command:

Get-CsTenant | Select-Object DisplayName, TenantID

Type:Guid
Position:Named
Default value:None
Required:False
Accept pipeline input:False
Accept wildcard characters:False
Applies to:Skype for Business Server 2015

-WhatIf

Describes what would happen if you executed the command without actually executing the command.

Type:SwitchParameter
Aliases:wi
Position:Named
Default value:None
Required:False
Accept pipeline input:False
Accept wildcard characters:False
Applies to:Lync Server 2013, Skype for Business Server 2015

Inputs

The Set-CsPersistentChatPolicy cmdlet accepts pipelined instances of the Microsoft.Rtc.Management.WritableConfig.Policy.PersistentChat.PersistentChatPolicy object.

Outputs

None. Instead, the Set-CsPersistentChatPolicy cmdlet modifies existing instances of the Microsoft.Rtc.Management.WritableConfig.Policy.PersistentChat.PersistentChatPolicy object.