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07/23/2014

New-CsRgsHoliday

Topic Last Modified: 2012-03-23

Creates a new Response Group holiday. In the Response Group application, a holiday represents a day when the agents assigned to a queue, who would typically be working that day, will not be working and will not be available to answer calls. For example, if United States (U.S.)-based workers are given Thanksgiving Day off, then a holiday would be configured for November 24, 2011.

Syntax

New-CsRgsHoliday -EndDate <Nullable> -StartDate <Nullable> [-Name <String>]

Detailed Description

The Response Group application uses business hour collections to indicate the days of the week, and the times of day, when agents are typically available to answer phone calls. For example, suppose your help desk is usually staffed from 7:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. every Monday. In that case, you would create a business hours collection for the help desk, and configure an opening time of 7:00 A.M. and a closing time of 7:00 P.M. for the typical Monday.

However, there might be exceptions to the rule that the help desk is staffed every Monday from 7:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M.. For example, in the U.S. July 4th is a holiday; consequently, your help desk personnel might not be available on July 4th. In order to account for the fact that the help desk will not be working on Monday, July 4, 2011, you need to create a holiday for that date and add it to the help desk holiday set.

To create a holiday you need to use the New-CsRgsHoliday cmdlet. (Note that a "holiday" doesn’t have to involve some sort of celebration or festivities; instead, a holiday is simply a day when agents will not be available to answer the phone.) New-CsRgsHoliday does not directly add a holiday to a holiday set. Instead, the cmdlet creates a new holiday that exists in memory only. Because of that, you must create an object reference (such $x) that points to this in-memory instance. After the holiday has been created in memory, you then use the Get-CsRgsHolidaySet cmdlet to retrieve the appropriate holiday set and the Set-CsRgsHolidaySet cmdlet to add the new holiday to that set.

Although a holiday set can (and typically does) hold multiple holidays, these holidays must be added to the set one holiday at a time.

Who can run this cmdlet: By default, members of the following groups are authorized to run the New-CsRgsHoliday cmdlet locally: RTCUniversalUserAdmins, RTCUniversalServerAdmins, RTCUniversalReadOnlyAdmins. However, because this cmdlet creates an in-memory object and, by itself, makes no changes to the system, it can essentially be run by anyone. 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 "New-CsRgsHoliday\b"}

Parameters

Parameter	Required	Type	Description
Name	Required	String	Unique name used to differentiate the holiday from other holidays.
EndDate	Required	DateTime	Ending date for the holiday. The format for the ending date depends on your Regional and Language Options. For example, in the U.S. an ending date of July 4, 2011 would be formatted like this: -EndDate "7/5/2011 12:00 AM", meaning that the holiday ends at 12:00 A.M. on July 5, 2011.
StartDate	Required	DateTime	Starting date for the holiday. The format for the starting date depends on your Regional and Language Options. For example, in the U.S. a starting date of July 4, 2011 would be formatted like this: -StartDate "7/4/2011 12:00 AM", indicating that the holiday begins at 12:00 A.M. on July 4, 2011.

Input Types

None. New-CsRgsHoliday does not accept pipelined input.

Return Types

New-CsRgsHoliday creates new instances of the Microsoft.Rtc.Rgs.Management.WritableSettings.Holiday object.

Example

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

$christmasDay = New-CsRgsHoliday -StartDate "12/25/2010 12:00 AM" -EndDate "12/26/2010 12:00 AM" -Name "Christmas Day"
$y = Get-CsRgsHolidaySet -Identity "service:ApplicationServer:atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com"  -Name "2010 Holidays"
$y.HolidayList.Add($christmasDay)
Set-CsRgsHolidaySet -Instance $y

The commands shown in Example 1 show how you can create a new holiday (Christmas Day) and then assign that holiday to an existing holiday set. To do this, the first command in the example uses the cmdlet New-CsRgsHoliday to create a new holiday, a "virtual" holiday that exists only in memory, and is stored in the variable $christmasDay. New-CsRgsHoliday uses three parameters: StartDate, which represents the starting date for the holiday (12/25/2010 12:00 AM); EndDate, which represents the end date for the holiday (12/26/2010 12:00 AM); and Name, which represents the unique name to be given to the holiday.

After creating the new holiday, the second command uses Get-CsRgsHolidaySet to retrieve the holiday set "2010 Holidays" from the service ApplicationServer:atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com. This holiday set is stored in the variable $y.

Command 3 uses the Add method to add the new holiday ($christmasDay) to the virtual copy of the holiday set ($y). The final command then calls Set-CsRgsHolidaySet to write the changes (that is, to add the new holiday) to the service ApplicationServer:atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com.

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