While a set of four different policies that disable desktop sharing were returned, all of them also include the setting to disable file transfers. If we rerun the above example to include some more details, the following is revealed: Unfortunately, doing so often meant blocking another feature as well. If a matching policy was returned, the admin was in luck and he could apply it to the users.
Get-CsConferencingPolicy -ApplicableTo | ? | ft Identity To do so, the admin would use a cmdlet similar to this: Without being able to create new or modify existing conferencing policies however, the only option for the admin was to filter out the set of pre-canned policies and select one with the relevant setting pre-configured. As mentioned in the introduction, this setting can be controlled via the conferencing policy. The security folks at the company X declare the screen sharing functionality as a potential IP leak and the admin is tasked to disable it for all users except a few. To better illustrate the issues Office 365 administrators had to face previously when trying to work with SfB policies, let’s look at the following scenario: Using the Get-CsClientPolicy cmdlet will return all Client policies available in the tenant along with a lengthy list of all their settings. Here’s a list of all the policies supported in Office 365 and the corresponding Get- cmdlet: Once you connect to SfB Online via PowerShell, you can work with the policy related cmdlets.
An important note – the module still does not support modern authentication, so you need to use admin account with MFA disabled. In SfB Online, policies can only be managed via PowerShell, and you’ll need a SkypeOnlineConnector wrapper module to establish a remote PowerShell session.
Viewing policies via Skype for Business Online PowerShell Until now, we had a set of pre-canned policies to choose from and limited customization options for the default tenant client policy. In a multi-tenant software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering such as Office 365 however, certain restrictions apply. The list of settings you can control via policies is huge. You can find a comprehensive overview of policies in SfB and detailed information in the relevant documentation on TechNet. While policies are not directly exposed in the SfB Online Admin Center, and some Office 365 administrators might not even be aware of their existence, they still play a very important role. Other types of policies control external access and federation, telephony and more. The Mobility policy allows you to configure various settings related to the use of SfB on mobile devices. Conferencing policies govern settings for multi-party conferences, such as disabling file transfer or desktop sharing. Depending on the type, policies can be applied to the entire organization, individual user level and even based on the location of the user.Ĭlient policies can be used to control client features such as using emoticons in instant messages, or event tracing and logging options. Policies in Skype for Business and its cloud counterpart are a set of settings that control different capabilities. What are policies and why do we care about them
Before diving into the details, here’s a short introduction of SfB policies and what they are used for. Another feature introduced at Ignite 2016 has now been released to the public, including the ability to create and modify Skype for Business Online Policies.
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