Delete a common area phone Contact object in Lync Server 2013
Topic Last Modified: 2013-02-20
You might want to delete the contact object associated with a common area phone. For example, if you remove the phone from an employee lounge, there’s no need to have a contact object associated with that phone. The Remove-CsCommonAreaPhone cmdlet provides a way for you to delete common area phone accounts. When you run this cmdlet, the phone is deleted from the list of common area phones returned by Get-CsCommonAreaPhone. In addition, the contact object associated with that phone is deleted from Active Directory Domain Services.
Use Remove-CsCommonAreaPhone to remove one common area phone or all common area phones that have a common element, such as a display name or country and area code. You can run this cmdlet from either the Lync Server 2013 Management Shell or from a remote session of Windows PowerShell. For details about using remote Windows PowerShell to connect to Lync Server, see the Lync Server Windows PowerShell blog article "Quick Start: Managing Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Using Remote PowerShell" at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkId=255876.
Removing a Specified Common Area Phone
The following command removes the common area phone with the SIP address sip:mainlobby@litwareinc.com:
Remove-CsCommonAreaPhone -Identity "sip:mainlobby@litwareinc.com"
Removing Common Area Phones Based on Their Display Name
This command removes all the common area phones where the display name includes the string value "Building 14":
Get-CsCommonAreaPhone | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -match "Building 14"} | Remove-CsCommonAreaPhone
Removing Common Area Phones Based on Their Country and Area Codes
This command removes all the common area phones for the United States (country code 1) and the area code 425:
Get-CsCommonAreaPhone | Where-Object {$_.LineUri -match "^tel:\+1425"} | Remove-CsCommonAreaPhone
For details, see the Help topic for the Remove-CsCommonAreaPhone cmdlet.
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