SkypeForBusiness PS policy commands failing

Question

Hello, recently a few of our skypeForBusiness Ps commands start throwing error, the one in question,
Get-csConferencingPolicy,
I could be wrong but looking at the error, its almost like, eventhough I am trying to run an onprem command, PS is trying to run it on teams!!

I have been trying to figure out how to solve this issue, the only thing I came up with was to prefix the command with SkypeForBusiness
and call it like this

SkypeForBusiness\Get-CsConferencingPolicy

is this the right thing to do here, how many other commands have changed

please advise as our scripts are failing in prod

Answer 1

@Leila Baghdadi (Group) ,

The reason for the error is that Get-CsConferencingPolicy command is applied in both on-premises and online environment. And you install Skype for Business Online module on Skype for Business server. So, when you run this command, it has a conflict.

A workaround for your scenario is to install Skype for Business Online module in a different machine and run your script. Besides, SkypeForBusiness\Get-CsConferencingPolicy format is also practicable.

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Answer 2

Hello as a follow up question, what we noticed with
Get-CsConferencingPolicy once we added the prefix is that sometimes we have had to retry the command more than once to get results,
I do know from past experience that retrying for PowerShell commands may not be the best option specially due to what I recall as throttling error!

just wondering if you can comment on the above,
should there be a retry if yes how many times we should retry before giving up!

thank you for your time

Leila