If you need to use Persistent chat, your choices are to either migrate users requiring this functionality to Teams, or to continue using Skype for Business Server 2015. For more information, see Getting started with your Microsoft Teams upgrade. The same functionality is available in Teams. Persistent chat is available in Skype for Business Server 2015 but is no longer supported in Skype for Business Server 2019.
You can configure and manage categories by using the Control Panel or by using Windows PowerShell cmdlets. After the category is created, you can choose users, OUs, and user groups from the category's AllowedMembers list as chat room managers and members to manage and participate in the room.īefore you configure categories, be sure to read Persistent chat categories, chat rooms, and user roles in Skype for Business Server 2015. Users, Organization Units (OUs), and user groups that are identified as Creators of the category are the only individuals and groups that are allowed to create rooms in the category. If you want to implement a system where a restricted number of personnel in the organization can create chat rooms this control can be used to meet that requirements. You can use this to segregate chat rooms based on business need and access policies.Ī user who is in the Creators list can create new chat rooms in that category. After the chat room is created, anyone from the AllowedMembers group can be designated as a Manager for ongoing management operations on the rooms (for example, membership changes and approval).ĭefining AllowedMembers and Creators for a category has the following benefits:Īll chat rooms in this category are bound by the restrictions set at the category level. The Creators property enables you to control who can create chat rooms in that category. If you set the Allowed Members on a category to Sales, only groups and users in this distribution list can be added as members to chat rooms in that category. For example, if you set the category's AllowedMembers to, you can add any group or user at Contoso as a member to chat rooms in that category. As a Persistent Chat Server administrator, you can define AllowedMembers and Creators for each category, and also define the default chat room settings and behaviors that will be applied to all chat rooms created in the category. The category has properties that can be set to control the behavior of the chat rooms belonging to it for example, whether the chat rooms allow Invitations or File Uploads, or contain Chat History.Ĭreating and managing chat rooms is much easier with the correct use of categories. Each category describes its contents with metadata, such as Name and Description.
Chat room categories contain chat rooms, but not other categories.
A category defines a default set of access control lists (ACLs) for controlling the users and user groups who can create or join the chat rooms.
Summary: Learn how to manage Persistent Chat Server categories in Skype for Business Server 2015.Ī category is a logical structure for organizing chat rooms.