Assign a Location Policy to a User

 

Topic Last Modified: 2010-12-13

The location policy is one of the individual settings of a user account that you can configure in the Lync Server Control Panel.

Deploying one or more per-user location policies is optional. You can also deploy only a global-level location policy or subnet-level location policy. If you do deploy per-user policies, you must explicitly assign them to users, groups, or contact object. Enhanced 9-1-1 (E9-1-1) settings automatically default to those defined in the global-level location policy when no specific subnet-level or per-user policy is assigned.

After creating at least one per-user location policy, use the procedures in this topic to assign to the policy that specifies the settings that you want the server to apply for emergency calls placed by a particular user.

For a list of all available location policy settings, see Defining the Location Policy.

For details about creating location policies, see Create Location Policies.

To assign a per-user location policy

1. From a user account that is assigned to the CsUserAdministrator role or the CsAdministrator role, log on to any computer in your internal deployment.

2. Open a browser window, and then enter the Admin URL to open the Lync Server Control Panel. For details about the different methods you can use to start Lync Server Control Panel, see Open Lync Server Administrative Tools.

3. In the left navigation bar, click Users.

4. Use one of the following methods to locate a user:

   • In the Search users box, type all or the first portion of the display name, first name, last name, Security Accounts Manager (SAM) account name, SIP address, or line Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of the user account, and then click Find.

   • If you have a saved query, click the Open query icon, use the Open dialog box to retrieve the query (a .usf file), and then click Find.

5. (Optional) Specify additional search criteria to narrow the results:

   1. Click Add Filter.

   2. Enter the user property by typing it or by clicking the arrow in the drop-down list to select the property.

   3. In the Equal to drop-down list, click the operator (for example, Equal to or Not equal to).

   4. Depending on the user property you selected, enter the criteria you want to use to filter the search results by typing it or by clicking the arrow in the drop-down list.

      Tip

      To add additional search clauses to your query, click Add Filter.

   5. Click Find.

6. Click a user in the search results, click Action, and then click Assign policies.

   Tip

   If you want the same per-user location policy to apply to multiple users, select multiple users in the search results, then click Actions, and then click Assign policies.

7. In Assign Policies, under Location policy, do one of the following:

   Note

   Because there are multiple policies that you can configure by using the Assign Policies dialog box, <Keep as is> is selected by default for every policy in the dialog box. Continue using the policy previously assigned to the user by making no changes to this setting.

   • Allow Lync Server 2010 to automatically choose either the global-level policy or, if defined, the subnet-level policy.

   • Click the name of a per-user location policy you previously defined by running the New-CsLocationPolicy cmdlet.

     Tip

     To help you decide the policy that you want to assign, after you click a policy name, click View to view the user rights and permissions defined in the policy.

8. When you are finished, click OK.