Removes the specified conferencing policy. Conferencing policies determine the features and capabilities that can be used in a Web conference; this includes everything from whether or not the conference can include IP audio and video to the maximum number of people who can attend a meeting.
Syntax
Remove-CsConferencingPolicy -Identity <XdsIdentity> [-Confirm [<SwitchParameter>]] [-Force <SwitchParameter>] [-WhatIf [<SwitchParameter>]] |
Parameters
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Identity |
Required |
XdsIdentity |
Unique identifier for the conferencing policy to be removed. Conferencing policies can be configured at the global, site, or per-user scopes. To remove the global policy use this syntax: -Identity global. (Note that the global policy cannot actually be removed. Instead, all the policy properties will be reset to their default values.) To remove a site policy use syntax similar to this: -Identity site:Redmond. To remove a per-user policy use syntax similar to this: -Identity SalesConferencingPolicy. Note that wildcards are not allowed when specifying an Identity. |
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Force |
Optional |
Switch Parameter |
If present, causes Remove-CsConferencingPolicy to delete the per-user policy even if the policy in question is currently assigned to at least one user. If not present, you will be asked to confirm the deletion request before the policy will be removed. |
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WhatIf |
Optional |
Switch Parameter |
Describes what would happen if you executed the command without actually executing the command. |
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Confirm |
Optional |
Switch Parameter |
Prompts you for confirmation before executing the command. |
Detailed Description
Conferencing is an important part of Microsoft Communications Server 2010: conferencing enables groups of users (as few as 2 people to as many as 1,000 people) to come together online to view slides and video, share applications, exchange files, and otherwise communicate and collaborate.
Needless to say, it’s important for administrators to maintain control over conferences and conference settings. In some cases, there might be security concerns: by default, anyone, including unauthenticated users, can participate in meetings and save any of the slides or handouts distributed during those meetings. In other cases, there might be bandwidth concerns: having a multitude of simultaneous meetings, each involving hundreds of participants and each featuring video feeds and file sharing, has the potential to wreak havoc on your network. In addition, there might be even be legal concerns. For example, by default meeting participants are allowed to make annotations on shared content; however, these annotations are not saved when the meeting is archived. If your organization is required to keep a record of all electronic communication, you might want to disable annotations.
Of course, wanting to manage conferencing settings is one thing; how you manage these settings is another. In Communications Server 2010 conferences are managed using conferencing policies. (In previous versions of the software, these were known as meeting policies.) As noted, conferencing policies determine the features and capabilities that can be used in a Web conference, including everything from whether or not the conference can include IP audio and video to the maximum number of people who can attend a meeting. Conferencing policies can be configured at the global scope; at the site scope; or at the per-user scope. This provides administrators with enormous flexibility when it comes to deciding which capabilities will be made available to which users.
You can use the Remove-CsConferencingPolicy to delete any of the conferencing policies configured for use in your organization, with one exception: you cannot delete the global policy. However, you can still run Remove-CsConferencingPolicy against the global policy. In that case, the policy will not be removed; however, all the global policy properties will be reset to their default values.
Return Types
Remove-CsConferencingPolicy does not return a value or object. Instead, the cmdlet deletes instances of the Microsoft.Rtc.Management.WriteableConfig.Policy.Meeting.MeetingPolicy object.
Examples
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Remove-CsConferencingPolicy -Identity SalesConferencingPolicy |
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In Example 1, Remove-CsConferencingPolicy is used to delete the conferencing policy with the Identity SalesConferencingPolicy.
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Get-CsConferencingPolicy -Filter "site:*" | Remove-CsConferencingPolicy |
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In the preceding example, all the conferencing policies that have been configured at the site scope are deleted. To accomplish this task, the command first uses Get-CsConferencingPolicy and the -Filter parameter to return a collection of all the site-level policies; the filter value "site:*" ensures that only policies that have an Identity that begins with the string value "site" are returned. (By definition, any conferencing policy that has an Identity that begins with the string value "site:" is a policy that has been configured at the site scope.) That filtered collection is then piped to Remove-CsConferencingPolicy, which proceeds to delete each item (policy) in the collection.
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Get-CsConferencingPolicy | Where-Object {$_.MaxMeetingSize -gt 100} | Remove-CsConferencingPolicy
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In Example 3, all the policies that allow a maximum meeting size (MaxMeetingSize) of more than 100 people are deleted. To do this, the command first uses Get-CsConferencingPolicy to retrieve a collection of all the conferencing policies configured for use in the organization. That collection is then "piped" to the Where-Object cmdlet, which applies a filter that limits the returned data to those policies where the MaxMeetingSize value is greater than (-gt) 100. Finally, that filtered collection is passed to Remove-CsConferencingPolicy, which deletes all the policies in the filtered collection.