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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.

One 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.) For example, this command assigns the voice policy CommonAreaPhoneVoicePolicy to all your common area phones:

Get-CsCommonAreaPhone | Grant-CsVoicePolicy –PolicyName "CommonAreaPhoneVoicePolicy"

From time-to-time you might need to delete the contact object associated with a common area phone. For example, if you remove the phone from an employee lounge then there is no need to have a contact object associated with that phone. The Remove-CsCommonAreaPhone cmdlet provides a way for you to delete common area phones. When you run this cmdlet, the phone will be deleted from the list of common area phones returned by Get-CsCommonAreaPhone. In addition, the contact object associated with that phone will be deleted from Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).

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

Microsoft.Rtc.Management.ADConnect.Schema.OCSADCommonAreaPhoneContact object. Remove-CsCommonAreaPhone accepts pipelined instances of the common area phone object.

Remove-CsCommonAreaPhone deletes existing instances of the Microsoft.Rtc.Management.ADConnect.Schema.OCSADCommonAreaPhoneContact object.

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Get-CsCommonAreaPhone -Filter {DisplayName -eq "Building 14 Lobby"} | Remove-CsCommonAreaPhone

The command shown in Example 1 deletes the common area phone that has the display name "Building 14 Lobby". To do this, the command first calls Get-CsCommonAreaPhone along with the Filter parameter and the filter value "{DisplayName -eq "Building 14 Lobby"}". The returned object is then piped to, and deleted by, the Remove-CsCommonAreaPhone cmdlet.

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Get-CsCommonAreaPhone -Filter {DialPlan -eq $Null} | Remove-CsCommonAreaPhone

In Example 2, the command deletes all the common area phones that have not been assigned a dial plan. This task is carried out by first using Get-CsCommonAreaPhone and the Filter parameter to return the specified items; the filter value {DialPlan -eq $Null} limits the returned data to common area phones that have not been assigned a dial plan. This filtered collection is then piped to the Remove-CsCommonAreaPhone, which deletes each phone in the collection.

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Get-CsCommonAreaPhone -OU "ou=Redmond,dc=litwareinc,dc=com" | Remove-CsCommonAreaPhone

Example 3 deletes all the common area phones that have contact objects located in the Redmond OU in Active Directory. To carry out this task, Get-CsCommonAreaPhone is first called in order to return all the common area phones with contact objects in the Redmond OU; the OU parameter and the parameter value "ou=Redmond,dc=litwareinc,dc=com” is used to limit the returned data to the specified organizational unit. The returned collection is then piped to Remove-CsCommonAreaPhone, which deletes each phone in that collection.

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