Create Location Policy

For Lync to support location information objects, users must be associated with a location policy that allows these features. Location policies can exist at the global, site, or user level. When creating a location policy, an administrator has the following options:

• Enable Enhanced Emergency Services—This setting enables the client for E911.

• Location—This setting takes effect only if emergency services are enabled, and it is used when a Lync client cannot determine a location automatically. Setting this value to No means the user is not prompted for a location. A value of Yes means the user sees a visible red error in the location field, so he enters the information. Disclaimer means the user is prompted for a location and cannot dismiss the prompt until a location is entered. Users cannot place any calls except to emergency services unless entering a location with this setting.

• Use Location for Emergency Services Only—Location information gathered from Lync clients can also be shared with team members. Selecting this option prevents Lync from sharing location information between users.

• PSTN Usage—This is the PSTN usage associated with placing emergency calls. This determines which voice routes are used for emergency calls associated with this location policy. This usage must already exist, so be sure to define a new emergency services usage before configuring a location policy.

• Emergency Dial Number—This is the number sent by Lync to match a route within the emergency services PSTN usage. Do not include the leading + sign.

• Emergency Dial Mask—This is a list of semicolon-separated dial strings that users might use to dial emergency services. This can include an external access prefix, or additional codes sometimes used to call emergency services.

• Notification URI—This is the SIP URI that receives an instant message notification when an emergency call is placed. Should contain the “sip:” prefix. This can be useful for security teams to receive notification that a user has called emergency services.

• Conference URI—This is the SIP URI that should be conferenced into the call when an emergency call is placed. Should contain the “sip:” prefix and can also be a phone number.

• Conference Mode—This specifies whether the conference URI contact can be included in the call using one-way or two-way communication. One-way means the conference URI can only listen to the call as it occurs and two-way means the contact can participate.

To create a new location policy, follow these steps:

1. Open the Lync Server 2013 Control Panel.

2. Click Network Configuration.

3. Click Location Policy.

4. Click New and select either Site Policy or User Policy.

5. Check the box Enable Enhanced Emergency Services to enable the feature.

6. Select a Location specification requirement policy.

7. Select whether to Use Location for Emergency Services Only.

8. Enter an Emergency Dial Number.

9. Enter any Emergency Dial Masks, separated by semicolons.

10. Enter a Notification URI, if necessary.

11. Enter a Conference URI, if necessary.

12. Select a Conference Mode.

13. Click Commit as shown in Figure 18.6.

Figure 18.6. Creating a location policy.

Alternatively, the Lync Server Management Shell can be used to create a location policy through the New-CsLocationPolicy cmdlet.