Some custom policies in Skype for Business Online

[Bunmi Ajayi]

At the last Ignite conference custom policies for SfBO was presented e.g. CsConferencing & CsClient. Last Saturday  the New/Set-CsConferencing & Client policy cmdlets showed up. So, I created a new CsConferencingPolicy and then attempted to set the AllowIPAudio & AllowIPVideo parameters to $false (their defaults are $true) and I was unable to set them. The error retuned by PowerShell is attached - the error in its self is rather puzzling any how does anyone know if some of the parameters in these policies are locked for newly created policies?  Btw I was able to change some parameters relating to file transfer sucessfully.

[#2]

Hello Bummi.  I'm sorry to hear that you're having issues with applying Custom Policies.  There are a subset of policies that are configurable but some of the policy updates require a client update.  Others can be set with no clinet update as you have discovered.  I'm following up with Siunie (the presenter on Custom Policies @ Ignite!) and will provide an update as soon as I hear back.  

[#3]

Hey Bunmi

It's not allowed to modify these both attributes on an existing conferencing policy. Create a new one with this two parameters. 

New-CsConferencingPolicy -Identity "Common_NoAV" -AllowIPAudio $false -AllowIPVideo $false

Cheers Andy

[#4]

Hey Andy,

Thanks for the reply. I did actually create a new CsConferencingPolicy (a screen is in the attached jpg on the original post). The behaviour I encountered was the inability to change some of the parameters in the newly created policy using the set cmdlet, in particular the ones I mentioned in the orginal post.

Rgds Bunmi

[#5]

Thats right. You can't modify these parameters (AllowIPAudio / AllowIPVideo) on a newly created policy with the "set-csconferencingpolicy" cmdlet. It's just possbile to set these options during the new-csconfernecingpolicy cmdlet.

[#6]

The documentation has been published for the custoemr poliicies in SfB Online.  They can be found here:

Client:
Get-CsClientPolicy	https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt779151.aspx
Set-CsClientPolicy	https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt779153.aspx
New-CsClientPolicy	https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt779155.aspx
Grant-CsClientPolicy	https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt779152.aspx
Remove-CsClientPolicy	https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt779145.aspx

Conferencing:
Get-CsConferencingPolicy	https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt779154.aspx
Set-CsConferencingPolicy	https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt779157.aspx
New-CsConferencingPolicy	https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt779148.aspx
Grant-CsConferencingPolicy	https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt779156.aspx
Remove-CsConferencingPolicy	https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt779158.aspx

Mobility:
Get-CsMobilityPolicy	https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt779146.aspx
Set-CsMobilityPolicy	https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt779147.aspx
New-CsMobilityPolicy	https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt779150.aspx
Grant-CsMobilityPolicy	https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt779147.aspx
Remove-CsMobilityPolicy	https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt779144.aspx

[#7]

Nice, we've been waiting a long time for this!

[#8]

Not directly related to the question at hand, but just an fyi that this old trick still seems to work great to create a new policy based off an existing one. Make a clone and then tweak only what you need to in the new policy (if it's allowed, in this case :) ).

http://blogs.technet.com/b/nexthop/archive/2011/03/21/copypolicies.aspx

[#9]

Thank you for the update guys.

[#10]

@Channing Heffney wrote a nice blog this week covering this topic: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Skype-for-Business-Blog/Custom-Policies-for-Skype-for-Busines...

[#11]

Microsoft has posted an updated article on Update on Custom Policies in Skype for Business Online which can be found here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Skype-for-Business-Blog/Update-on-Custom-Policies-in-Skype-fo...