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Common area phones are IP telephones that are not associated with an individual user. Instead of being located in someone’s office, common area phones are typically located in building lobbies, cafeterias, employee lounges, meeting rooms and other locations where a large number of people are likely to gather. This presents administrators with a management challenge; that’s because phone use in Lync Server 2010 is typically maintained by using voice policies and dial plans that are assigned to individual users. Common area phones do not have individual users assigned to them.

The solution to this challenge is to create Active Directory contact objects for all your common area phones. (These contact objects can be created by using the New-CsCommonAreaPhone cmdlet.) Like user accounts, these contact objects can be assigned policies and voice plans. As a result, you will be able to maintain control over common area phones even though those phones are not associated with an individual user. For example, if you do not want people to have the ability to transfer or park calls from a common area phone, you can create a voice policy that prohibits call transfers and call parking, and then assign that policy to the common area phone. (Or, more correctly, to the contact object that represents the common area phone.)

The Move-CsCommonAreaPhone cmdlet enables you to move an existing common area phone to a new Registrar pool.

Who can run this cmdlet: By default, members of the following groups are authorized to run the Move-CsCommonAreaPhone cmdlet locally: RTCUniversalUserAdmins. Permissions to run this cmdlet for specific sites or specific Active Directory organizational units (OUs) can be assigned by using the Grant-CsOUPermission cmdlet. 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 "Move-CsCommonAreaPhone"}

String. Move-CsCommonAreaPhone accepts a pipelined string value that represents the Identity of the common area phone.

By default, Move-CsCommonAreaPhone does not return any objects or values. However, if you include the PassThru parameter, the cmdlet will return instances of the Microsoft.Rtc.Management.ADConnect.Schema.OCSADCommonAreaPhoneContact object.

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Move-CsCommonAreaPhone -Identity "CN={ce84964a-c4da-4622-ad34-c54ff3ed361f},OU=Redmond,DC=Litwareinc,DC=com" -Target atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com

The command shown in Example 1 moves the common area phone with the Identity CN={ce84964a-c4da-4622-ad34-c54ff3ed361f},OU=Redmond,DC=Litwareinc,DC=com to the Registrar pool atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com.

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Get-CsCommonAreaPhone | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -eq "Building 31 Cafeteria"} | Move-CsCommonAreaPhone -Target atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com

In Example 2, the common area phone with the Active Directory display name "Building 31 Cafeteria" is moved to the Registrar pool atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com. To do this, Get-CsCommonAreaPhone is first called without any parameters in order to return a collection of all the common area phones currently in use in the organization. This collection is then piped to the Where-Object cmdlet, which picks out only those phones where the DisplayName attribute is equal to "Building 31 Cafeteria." That filtered collection is then piped to Move-CsCommonAreaPhone, which moves each phone in the collection to atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com.

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Get-CsCommonAreaPhone | Where-Object {$_.RegistrarPool -match "dublin-cs-001.litwareinc.com"} | Move-CsCommonAreaPhone -Target atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com

The preceding example moves all the common area phones currently homed on the Registrar pool dublin-cs-001.litwareinc.com to the Registrar pool atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com. To carry out this task, the command first calls Get-CsCommonAreaPhone without any parameters; that returns a collection of all the common area phones configured for use in the organization. This collection is then piped to the Where-Object cmdlet, which picks out all the common area phones where the RegistrarPool is equal to dublin-cs-001.litwareinc.com. This collection is then piped to Move-CsCommonAreaPhone, which moves each phone in the collection to the new Registrar pool atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com.

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Get-CsCommonAreaPhone | Where-Object {$_.RegistrarPool -match "dublin-cs-001.litwareinc.com"} | Move-CsCommonAreaPhone -Target atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com -PassThru | Grant-CsVoicePolicy -PolicyName AtlantaVoicePolicy

Example 4 is a variation of the command shown in Example 3; in this case, however, the common area phones are not only moved to a new Registrar pool, but are also assigned a new per-user voice policy. To do this, the PassThru parameter is included when calling Move-CsCommonAreaPhone; this is required in order to pass the common area phone objects through the pipeline. (By default, Move-CsCommonAreaPhone does not pass objects through the pipeline.) After the phones have been moved, the phone objects are piped to the Grant-CsVoicePolicy cmdlet, which assigns the voice policy AtlantaVoicePolicy to each of the newly-moved phones.

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