{"id":116,"date":"2015-08-07T17:31:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T17:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zewwy.ca\/?p=116"},"modified":"2018-09-17T19:27:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T00:27:36","slug":"switching-between-skype-ui-and-lyne-ui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/2015\/08\/07\/switching-between-skype-ui-and-lyne-ui\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching between Skype UI and Lync UI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blogbody\">\n<p>To change All Users to Skype for Business UI:<br \/>\n<strong>Set-CsClientPolicy -Identity Global -EnableSkypeUI $true<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To change All Users to Lync 2013 UI:<br \/>\n<strong>Set-CsClientPolicy -Identity Global -EnableSkypeUI $false<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What if you only want to change the UI for a certain group of users?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;ll only take 2 extra cmdlets, in the same sphere.<\/p>\n<p>First you create a new client policy by which to identify this group of users. Let&#8217;s call them &#8220;SkypeTesters&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe cmdlet will look like this:<br \/>\n<strong>New-CsClientPolicy -Identity SkypeTesters -EnableSkypeUI $true<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Then you collect users &amp; assign them to this new SkypeTesters policy. You can collect users via department, AD group, etc. I&#8217;ll use a Marketing Department for this example.<\/p>\n<p>To collect users:<br \/>\n<strong>Get-CsUser -LDAPFilter &#8220;Department=Marketing&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nTo grant them the new client policy &amp; enable Skype for Business UI:<br \/>\n<strong>Grant-CsClientPolicy -PolicyName SkypeTesters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Of course you can pipe these two cmdlets together &amp; save time. I split them up just for clarity&#8217;s sake.)<\/p>\n<p>Information here was provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyncinsider.com\/lync-server-2013\/lync-2013-client\/how-to-change-the-lync-2013-client-into-skype-for-business-2015-with-one-cmdlet\/\">The Lync Insider<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you wish to enable all users for Lync after you are done with your initial test group, remove users from the test group with the following piped cmdlet:<br \/>\n<strong>Get-CsUser -Filter {ClientPolicy -eq &#8220;SkypeTesters&#8221;} | Grant-CsClientPolicy -PolicyName &#8220;&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nThe key is specifying a blank PolicyName, this took me rather long time to figure out hahah.<br \/>\nOnce that is comepleted you can run the inital cmdlet above to enable the skype UI on the global policy.<br \/>\nThis is way better demo then my initial blog post, thanks Lync Insider for having a better write up then MS answers! Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>FYI, to check the global policy and what it&#8217;s attribute is set to run the following cmdlet:<br \/>\n<strong>Get-CSClientPolicy -Identity Global | select Identity, EnableSkypeUI | fl<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"PowerShell: SkypeUIEnabled\" src=\"http:\/\/osiprodweuodcspstoa01.blob.core.windows.net\/en-us\/media\/b6b9d2e1-1a37-46df-9757-f81c6054e93b.png\" alt=\"PowerShell: SkypeUIEnabled\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Jan 2018 Update<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Good ol&#8217; Lync\/Skype; Seems MS can never get their marketing choices right and all the Devs suffer for it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To change All Users to Skype for Business UI: Set-CsClientPolicy -Identity Global -EnableSkypeUI $true To change All Users to Lync 2013 UI: Set-CsClientPolicy -Identity Global -EnableSkypeUI $false What if you only want to change the UI for a certain group of users? It&#8217;ll only take 2 extra cmdlets, in the same sphere. First you create &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/2015\/08\/07\/switching-between-skype-ui-and-lyne-ui\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Switching between Skype UI and Lync UI&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,97,99],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-server-administration","tag-lync","tag-skype","tag-ui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}