Set-CsSimpleUrlConfiguration

Syntax

Set-CsSimpleUrlConfiguration [-Identity <XdsIdentity>] [-Confirm [<SwitchParameter>]] [-Force <SwitchParameter>] [-SimpleUrl <PSListModifier>] [-Tenant <Nullable>] [-WhatIf [<SwitchParameter>]]

Set-CsSimpleUrlConfiguration [-Confirm [<SwitchParameter>]] [-Force <SwitchParameter>] [-Instance <PSObject>] [-SimpleUrl <PSListModifier>] [-Tenant <Nullable>] [-WhatIf [<SwitchParameter>]]

Detailed Description

In Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, meetings had URLs similar to this:

https://imdf.litwareinc.com/Join?uri=sip%3Akenmyer%40litwareinc.com%3Bgruu%3Bopaque%3Dapp%3Aconf%3Afocus%3Aid%3A125f95a0b0184dcea706f1a0191202a8\&key=EcznhLh5K5t

However, such URLs are not especially intuitive, and not easy to convey to someone else. The simple URLs introduced in Lync Server 2010 help overcome those problems by providing users with URLs that look more like this:

https://meet.litwareinc.com/kenmyer/071200

Simple URLs are an improvement over the URLs used in the previous version of Office Communications Server. However, simple URLs are not automatically created for you; instead, you must configure the URLs yourself. In addition, you must also do such things as create Domain Name System (DNS) records for each URL; configure reverse proxy rules for external access; add the simple URLs to the your Front End Server certificates; and so on.

Lync Server enables you to create three different simple URLs:

Meet – Used for meetings. You must have at least one Meet URL for each of your SIP domains.

Admin – Used to point administrators to the Lync Server 2010 Control Panel.

Dialin – Used for the dial-in conferencing webpage.

Simple URLs are stored in simple URL configuration collections. When you install Lync Server, a global collection is created for you; you can also create custom collections at the site scope. This gives you the ability to use different simple URLs at each of your sites.

Simple URL configuration collections are created by using the New-CsSimpleUrlConfiguration cmdlet; you can then use additional cmdlets (such as New-CsSimpleUrl and Set-CsSimpleUrlConfiguration) to populate these collections with simple URLs. After the collections have been created, Set-CsSimpleUrlConfiguration also gives you the ability to modify the URLs stored in those collections.

Adding a simple URL to a collection is reasonably straightforward. To begin with, you use New-CsSimpleUrl and New-CsSimpleUrlEntry to create an in-memory-only URL. You then use the Add command to add the new URL to the existing collection. Alternatively, you can use the Replace method to replace all the existing URLs with the new one.

Removing a URL from a collection is a little more difficult because you must first create a new object reference to that URL (one that mimics the existing URL), and then use that object reference and the Remove method to delete the URL.

After updating a simple URL collection, you must then run the Enable-CsComputer cmdlet.

Who can run this cmdlet: By default, members of the following groups are authorized to run the Set-CsSimpleUrlConfiguration cmdlet locally: RTCUniversalServerAdmins. 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 "Set-CsSimpleUrlConfiguration"}

Parameters

Input Types

Microsoft.Rtc.Management.WritableConfig.Settings.SimpleUrl.SimpleUrlConfiguration object. Set-CsSimpleUrlConfiguration accepts pipelined instances of the simple URL configuration object.

Return Types

None.

Example

-------------------------- Example 1 ------------------------

Set-CsSimpleUrlConfiguration -Identity "site:Redmond" -SimpleUrl $Null

The command shown in Example 1 removes all the simple URLs from the Redmond site, but does not remove the actual collection of simple URLs. (The collection will still exist, but will no longer contain any URLs.) To do this, the command uses the SimpleUrl parameter and sets the parameter value to null ($Null). This removes all the simple URLs from the collection.

-------------------------- Example 2 ------------------------

$urlEntry = New-CsSimpleUrlEntry -Url "https://meet.fabrikam.com"
$simpleUrl = New-CsSimpleUrl -Component "meet" -Domain "fabrikam.com" -SimpleUrlEntry $urlEntry -ActiveUrl "https://meet.fabrikam.com"

Set-CsSimpleUrlConfiguration -Identity "site:Redmond" -SimpleUrl @{Add=$simpleUrl}

The preceding example shows how a new URL can be added to an existing collection of simple URLs. To begin with, the first command in the example uses New-CsSimpleUrlEntry to create a URL entry that points to https://meet.fabrikam.com; this URL entry is stored in a variable named $urlEntry.

In the second command, New-CsSimpleUrl is used to create an in-memory-only instance of a simple URL. In this example, the URL Component is set to Meet; the domain is set to fabrikam.com; the ActiveUrl is set to https://meet.fabrikam.com; and the SimpleUrl property is set to $urlEntry, with $urlEntry being the URL entry created in the first command.

After the URL has been created (and stored in the object reference $simpleUrl) the final command in the example adds the new URL to the simple URL collection for the Redmond site. This is done by using the Set-CsSimpleUrlConfiguration cmdlet, the SimpleUrl parameter, and the parameter value @{Add=$simpleUrl}. This syntax causes the URL stored in the object reference $simpleUrl to be added to the SimpleUrl property.

-------------------------- Example 3 ------------------------

$urlEntry = New-CsSimpleUrlEntry -Url "https://fabrikam.vdomain.com"
$simpleUrl = New-CsSimpleUrl -Component "meet" -Domain "fabrikam.com" -SimpleUrlEntry $urlEntry -ActiveUrl "https://meet.fabrikam.com"

Set-CsSimpleUrlConfiguration -Identity "site:Redmond" -SimpleUrl @{Remove=$simpleUrl}

The commands shown in Example 3 demonstrate how you can delete a single URL from a simple URL collection. Because Set-CsSimpleUrlConfiguration needs to work with URL objects, the example starts by creating a new object that contains the exact same property values as the URL to be deleted. To do that, the first command uses New-CsSimpleUrlEntry to create a URL entry that points to https://meet.fabrikam.com; this URL entry is stored in a variable named $urlEntry.

After the URL entry has been created, the second command uses New-CsSimpleUrl to create an in-memory instance of a simple URL. In this example, the URL Component is set to Meet; the domain is set to fabrikam.com; the ActiveUrl is set to https://meet.fabrikam.com; and the SimpleUrl property is set to $urlEntry, $urlEntry being the URL entry created in the first command. This creates an in-memory URL ($simpleUrl) that has the same property values as the URL to be deleted.

The final command in the example then deletes the URL from the simple URL collection for the Redmond site. This is done by using the Set-CsSimpleUrlConfiguration cmdlet, the SimpleUrl parameter, and the parameter value @{Remove=$simpleUrl}. This syntax simply causes the URL stored in the object reference $simpleUrl to be removed from the SimpleUrl property.

See Also

Other Resources

Get-CsSimpleUrlConfiguration
New-CsSimpleUrl
New-CsSimpleUrlConfiguration
New-CsSimpleUrlEntry
Remove-CsSimpleUrlConfiguration