Parameters

Address Book servers are intermediaries between AD DS and Microsoft Lync Server 2010. The Address Book server ensures that the user information stored in Lync Server 2010 is in synch with the user information stored in AD DS. This is done by periodically synching Address Book files with information stored in the User database.

In addition, Address Book servers periodically generate index files that are downloaded to computers running Lync 2010. When a user searches for contacts, he or she either search through these index files or search the Address Book index files stored in the Central Management store.

Address Book servers are governed using Address Book configuration settings; these settings determine such things as how often Address Book files are synchronized with the user database and how often these Address Book index files are generated. When you install Lync Server, a set of global Address Book settings is created for you. You can also create custom configuration settings that can be applied to individual sites. These settings, if they exist, apply to any Address Book servers operating in the site, and take precedence over the global settings.

The New-CsAddressBookConfiguration cmdlet enables you to create site-level Address Book configuration settings. To later remove Address Book settings configured at the site scope, use the Remove-CsAddressBookConfiguration cmdlet. Note that you can also run Remove-CsAddressBookConfiguration against the global settings; however, the global settings cannot actually be removed. Instead, running Remove-CsAddressBookConfiguration against the global settings will reset all of the global properties to their default values.

Who can run this cmdlet: By default, members of the following groups are authorized to run the Remove-CsAddressBookConfiguration 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-CsAddressBookConfiguration"}

Microsoft.Rtc.Management.WritableConfig.Settings.AddressBook.AddressBookSettings object. Remove-CsAddressBookConfiguration accepts pipelined input of Address Book configuration objects.

Remove-CsAddressBookConfiguration does not return a value or object. Instead, the cmdlet removes instances of the Microsoft.Rtc.Management.WritableConfig.Settings.AddressBook.AddressBookSettings object.

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Remove-CsAddressBookConfiguration -Identity site:Redmond

In this example, Remove-CsAddressBookConfiguration is used to delete the Address Book configuration settings with the identity site:Redmond. Using the Identity parameter ensures that only the specified Address Book settings will be removed.

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Get-CsAddressBookConfiguration -Filter site:* | Remove-CsAddressBookConfiguration

In Example 2, all the Address Book setting collections configured at the site scope are removed. To do this, the Get-CsAddressBookConfiguration cmdlet is used to retrieve a collection of all the Address Book settings that have been configured at the site scope; this is done by using the Filter parameter and the filter value "site:*". The retrieved collection is then piped to the Remove-CsAddressBookConfiguration cmdlet, which removes all the items in that collection.

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Get-CsAddressBookConfiguration | Where-Object {$_.KeepDuration -lt 30.} | Remove-CsAddressBookConfiguration

The preceding command removes all the Address Book settings in which change files are kept for less than 30 days. To carry out this task, Get-CsAddressBookConfiguration is used to return a collection of all the Address Book settings currently in use in the organization. This collection is then piped to Where-Object, which selects only those settings where the KeepDuration property is less than 30 days. (Note the syntax: 30., with a period following the number of days.) Finally, the filtered collection is piped to Remove-CsAddressBookConfiguration, which deletes each item in that collection.

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