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In Lync Server 2010, client policies replace the Group Policy settings used in previous versions of the product. In Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 and Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2, Group Policy helped determine what users could do with Communicator and other clients; for example, there were Group Policy settings that determined whether or not users could save a transcript of their instant messaging sessions; whether information from Microsoft Outlook was incorporated into their presence information; and whether or not users could include emoticons or formatted text in instant messages.

As useful as Group Policy is, however, the technology does have some limitations when applied to Lync Server 2010. For one thing, Group Policy is designed to be applied on a per-domain or per-organizational unit (OU) basis, which makes it difficult to target policies toward a more select group of users (for example, all the users who work in a particular department, or all the users who have a particular job title). For another, Group Policy is only applied to users who log on to the domain and who log on using a computer; Group Policy is not applied to users who access Lync Server 2010 over the Internet or who access the system by using a mobile phone. This means that the same user can have a different experience depending on the device he or she uses to log on, and where he or she logs on from.

To help address these inconsistencies Lync Server 2010 uses client policies instead of Group Policy. Client policies are applied each time a user accesses the system, regardless of where the user logs on from and regardless of the type of device the user logs on with. In addition, client policies, like other Lync Server 2010 policies, can readily be targeted toward selected groups of users. You can even create a custom policy that gets assigned to a single user.

Client policies can be configured at the global, site, and per-user scopes. Policies that have been configured at the site or per-user scope, can later be deleted by using the Remove-CsClientPolicy cmdlet. You can also run Remove-CsClientPolicy against the global policy. In that case, the global policy will not be removed; that's because global policies cannot be deleted. However, all the properties in the global policy will be reset to their default values.

Who can run this cmdlet: By default, members of the following groups are authorized to run the Remove-CsClientPolicy cmdlet locally: RTCUniversalServerAdmins. To return a list of all the role-based access control (RBAC) roles this cmdlet has been assigned to (including any custom RBAC roles you have created yourself), run the following command from the Windows PowerShell prompt:

Get-CsAdminRole | Where-Object {$_.Cmdlets –match "Remove-CsClientPolicy"}

Microsoft.Rtc.Management.WritableConfig.Policy.Client.ClientPolicy object. Remove-CsClientPolicy accepts pipelined instances of the client policy object.

Remove-CsClientPolicy does not return a value. Instead, the cmdlet deletes instances of the Microsoft.Rtc.Management.WritableConfig.Policy.Client.ClientPolicy object.

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Remove-CsClientPolicy -Identity SalesPolicy

In Example 1 Remove-CsClientPolicy is used to delete the client policy that has the Identity SalesPolicy.

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Get-CsClientPolicy -Filter "tag:*" | Remove-CsClientPolicy

In Example 2, Get-CsClientPolicy and Remove-CsClientPolicy are used to delete all the client policies that have been configured at the per-user scope. The command uses Get-CsClientPolicy and the Filter parameter to return a collection of all the client policies configured at the per-user scope; the filter value "tag:*" tells Get-CsClientPolicy to limit the retrieved data to client policies that have an Identity that begins with the string value "tag:". The filtered collection is then piped to Remove-CsClientPolicy, which removes each policy in the collection.

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Get-CsClientPolicy | Where-Object {$_.EnableAppearOffline -eq $True} | Remove-CsClientPolicy

The preceding command deletes all the client policies where the EnableAppearOffline property is set to True. To do this, Get-CsClientPolicy is first called without any additional parameters; that returns a collection of all the client policies configured for use in the organization. This collection is then piped to the Where-Object cmdlet, which picks out only those policies where the EnableAppearOffline property is equal to True. In turn, this filtered collection is piped to Remove-CsClientPolicy, which deletes each policy in the collection.

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