Topic Last Modified: 2013-08-13

When modifying your public provider settings, you always need to supply a Tenant identity; this is true even if you only have a single tenant. For example, this command sets Windows Live as the only public provider your users are allowed to communicate with:

Fortunately, you do not need to type the Tenant ID (for example, bf19b7db-6960-41e5-a139-2aa373474354) each time you run one of these cmdlets. Instead, you can retrieve the Tenant ID by running the Get-CsTenant cmdlet, storing the Tenant ID in a variable, and then using that variable when you call one of the other cmdlets. For example:

Alternatively, you can do this in a single command by retrieving the Tenant ID and then piping that value to the Set-CsTenantPublicProvider cmdlet:

You do not need to specify the tenant ID when calling the Get-CsTenant cmdlet. This command returns information about your tenant:

The following cmdlets accept a tenant identity. However, in these cases, the parameter is optional and does not need to be entered when calling the cmdlet. Instead, Windows PowerShell will effectively enter the tenant identity for you based on the Lync Online tenant you are currently connected to:

• Get-CsTenant

• Set-CsTenantFederationConfiguration

• Set-CsTenantHybridConfiguration

• Get-CsTenantFederationConfiguration

• Get-CsTenantHybridConfiguration

• Get-CsTenantLicensingConfiguration

For example, the Get-CsTenantFederationConfiguration cmdlet can be called by using this command:

Although not required, you can include the Tenant parameter when calling Get-CsTenantFederationConfiguration :

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