Registering custom category names

Applies to: Lync 2013 | Lync Server 2013

To add a new category you must register the category name with Microsoft Lync Server 2013. To register a category name, call the following SQL commands from the command-line OSQL tool that can access the SQL database that is used by Lync Server 2013.

  use rtc
  exec RtcRegisterCategoryDef N'aCategoryName'

rtc refers to the SQL database name, RtcRegisterCategoryDef is the name of a stored procedure, and aCategoryName is the name of the category to be registered. To run the commands, you must be a Lync Server 2013 administrator.

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