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The Response Group application uses business hour collections to keep track of the days of the week and the times of day that agents are typically available to answer phones. For example, suppose your help desk is open every Monday from 7:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. In that case, you need to do two things: you need to use the New-CsRgsHoursOfBusiness cmdlet to create a collection of business hours for the help desk, and you need to modify the MondayTimeRange1 property in order to indicate that the help desk opens at 7:00 A.M. and closes at 7:00 P.M.

Modifying an existing business hours collection requires you to use the Set-CsRgsHoursOfBusiness cmdlet. However, you cannot use that cmdlet to directly modify a time range property; for example, Set-CsRgsHoursOfBusiness has no parameter that corresponds to the MondayTimeRange1 property. Instead, modifying a business hours collection requires you to retrieve that collection by using Get-CsRgsHoursOfBusiness, make changes to the collection in memory only, and then use Set-CsRgsHoursOfBusiness to write those changes to the actual collection of business hours.

More often than not, changes you make to a business hours collection will involve changing the opening and/or closing times for a given day (or days). To modify opening and closing times, you must specify those times by using the New-CsRgsTimeRange cmdlet. When you call this cmdlet, the resulting value must be stored in an object reference variable. This variable will then be used to set opening and closing times within the business hours of collection.

You must also use New-CsRgsTimeRange to specify opening and closing hours any time you create a new collection of business hours.

Who can run this cmdlet: By default, members of the following groups are authorized to run the New-CsRgsTimeRange cmdlet locally: RTCUniversalUserAdmins, RTCUniversalServerAdmins, RTCUniversalReadOnlyAdmins. However, because this cmdlet creates an in-memory object and, by itself, makes no changes to the system, it can essentially be run by anyone. To return a list of all the role-based access control roles (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 "New-CsRgsTimeRange"}

None. New-CsRgsTimeRange does not accept pipelined input.

New-CsRgsTimeRange creates new instances of the Microsoft.Rtc.Rgs.Management.WritableSettings.TimeRange object.

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$sundayHours = New-CsRgsTimeRange -Name "Sunday hours" -OpenTime "08:30" -CloseTime "13:30" $y = Get-CsRgsHoursOfBusiness -Identity Service:ApplicationServer:atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com -Name "Help Desk Hours" $y.SundayHours1 = $sundayHours Set-CsRgsHoursOfBusiness -Instance $y

The preceding example shows how you can use the New-CsRgsTimeRange cmdlet to modify the properties of an existing set of business hours. In this example, New-CsRgsTimeRange is first called in order to create a new time range named "Sunday hours." This time range sets the opening time for 8:30 A.M. (08:30), and sets the closing time for 1:30 P.M. (13:30). The in-memory-only time range created by this command is stored in a variable named $sundayHours.

After the time range has been configured, the second command in the example uses the Get-CsRgsHoursOfBusiness cmdlet to return the business hours collection named Help Desk Hours (found on the service ApplicationServer:atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com). The returned collection is stored in a variable named $y.

After the collection has been retrieved, command 3 sets the value of the SundayHours1 property to $sundayHours, the object reference containing the newly created time range. When that command completes, Set-CsRgsHoursOfBusiness is then used to write those changes to the Help Desk Hours business hours collection. Note that if you fail to call Set-CsRgsHoursOfBusiness, the newly created time range will exist in memory only, and will disappear the moment you close Windows PowerShell or delete the variable $sundayHours. If that happens, then the Help Desk Hours business hours collection will not be updated.

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$sundayHours = New-CsRgsTimeRange -Name "Sunday hours" -OpenTime "08:30" -CloseTime "13:30" New-CsRgsHoursOfBusiness -Parent Service:ApplicationServer:atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com -Name "Help Desk Hours" -SundayHours1 $sundayHours

Example 2 shows how you can create a new Response Group time range, and then use that time range in a new set of business hours. The first command in the example uses the New-CsRgsTimeRange cmdlet to create a new time range named Sunday Hours. The OpenTime for the range is set for 8:30 A.M. ("08:30") and the CloseTime is set for 1:30 P.M. ("13:30" equals 13 hours and 30 minutes when using the 24-hour time format). The resulting time range object is stored in a variable named $sundayHours.

In the second command, the New-CsRgsBusinessHours cmdlet is used to create a new collection of business hours named Help Desk Hours. In this command, the variable $sundayHours specifies the time range for the property SundayHours1.

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