Example 1

The command shown in Example 1 enables federation with Windows Live for the tenant with the tenant ID bf19b7db-6960-41e5-a139-2aa373474354. Because Windows Live is the only provider specified, both the AOL and Yahoo providers will be disabled after the command executes.

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Set-CsTenantPublicProvider Tenant "bf19b7db-6960-41e5-a139-2aa373474354" -Provider "WindowsLive"

Example 2

In Example 2, two public providers are enabled: Windows Live and AOL. That means that only the Yahoo public provider will be disabled for the specified tenant.

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Set-CsTenantPublicProvider -Tenant "bf19b7db-6960-41e5-a139-2aa373474354" -Provider "WindowsLive",AOL"

Example 3

Example 3 shows how you can disable all the public providers for a given tenant. This is done by setting the Provider property to an empty string ("").

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Set-CsTenantPublicProvider -Tenant "bf19b7db-6960-41e5-a139-2aa373474354" -Provider ""

Example 4

The command shown in Example 4 disables all the public providers for all of your Lync Online tenants. To accomplish this task, the command first uses the Get-CsTenant cmdlet to return a collection of all of your tenants. This collection is then piped to the ForEach-Object cmdlet, which takes each tenant in the collection, calls the Set-CsTenantPublicProvider cmdlet against each of those tenants, and disables all the public providers. That last task is carried out by setting the Provider property to an empty string ("").

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Get-CsTenant | ForEach-Object {Set-CsTenantPublicProvider -Tenant $_.TenantId -Provider ""}

Public providers are organizations that provide SIP communication services for the general public. When you establish a federation relationship with a public provider, you effectively establish federation with any user who has an account hosted by that provider. For example, if you federate with Windows Live, then your users will be able to exchange instant messages and presence information with anyone who has a Windows Live instant messaging account.

Lync Online gives administrators the option of configuring federation with one or more of the following public IM and presence providers:

• Windows Live

• AOL

• Yahoo!

The Set-CsTenantPublicProvider cmdlet can be used to enable or disable federation with any of these public providers. When using this cmdlet, keep in mind that each time you run the Set-CsTenantPublicProvider cmdlet you must specify all of the providers that should be enabled. For example, suppose all three providers are disabled and you run this command:

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Set-CsTenantPublicProvider Tenant "bf19b7db-6960-41e5-a139-2aa373474354" -Provider "WindowsLive"

As you might expect, that will enable Windows Live, and will leave AOL and Yahoo disabled.

Now, suppose you next run this command:

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Set-CsTenantPublicProvider Tenant "bf19b7db-6960-41e5-a139-2aa373474354" -Provider "AOL"

That command will enable AOL. However, it will also disable Windows Live: that's because Windows Live was not specified as part of the parameter value supplied to the Provider parameter. If you want to enable AOL and keep Windows Live enabled as well, then you must specify both AOL and Windows Live when calling Set-CsTenantPublicProvider:

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Set-CsTenantPublicProvider Tenant "bf19b7db-6960-41e5-a139-2aa373474354" -Provider "AOL","WindowsLive"

To disable federation for all three providers, set the Provider property to an empty string (""):

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Set-CsTenantPublicProvider Tenant "bf19b7db-6960-41e5-a139-2aa373474354" -Provider ""

Note that simply enabling the status of a public provider does not mean that users can exchange instant messages and presence information with users who have accounts on that provider. In addition to enabling federation with the provider itself, administrators must also set the AllowPublicUsers property of the federation configuration settings to True. If this property is set to False then communication will not be allowed with any of the public providers, regardless of the public provider configuration settings.

The Set-CsTenantPublicProvider cmdlet accepts pipelined instances of the Microsoft.Rtc.Management.Hosted.TenantPICStatus object.

None. Instead, the Set-CsTenantPublicProvider cmdlet modifies existing instances of the Microsoft.Rtc.Management.Hosted.TenantPICStatus object.