Configure archiving disclaimers for external users in Skype for Business Server

Summary: Read this topic to learn how to configure an archiving disclaimer for Skype for Business Server.

If your organization communicates with external partners, you need to let them know that you are archiving communications with them. When you deploy an Edge Server and enable federation for your organization, you are asked whether you want to automatically send an archiving disclaimer to external partners.

If you need to change this configuration, you can use the Skype for Business Server Control Panel or the Windows PowerShell Set-CsAccessEdgeConfiguration cmdlet. Cmdlets can be run either from the Skype for Business Server management shell or from a remote session of Windows PowerShell.

To enable external users to collaborate with users in your Skype for Business Server deployment, you must also configure at least one external access policy to support external user access. For details, see Manage XMPP Federated Partners for Your Organization. For details about controlling access for specific federated domains, see Control Access by Individual Federated Domains.

Enable or disable archiving disclaimer using the Control Panel

  1. From a user account that is a member of the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group (or has equivalent user rights), or is assigned to 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 Skype for Business Server Control Panel.

  3. In the left navigation bar, click Federation and External Access, and then click Access Edge Configuration.

  4. On the Access Edge Configuration tab, click Global, click Edit, and then click Show details.

  5. In Edit Access Edge Configuration, under Enable federation and public IM connectivity, select or clear the Send archiving disclaimer to federated partners check box to enable or disable automatically sending the archiving disclaimer.

  6. Click Commit.

Enable or disable archiving disclaimer using Windows PowerShell

To enable the archiving disclaimer, set the value of the EnableArchivingDisclaimer property to True ($True):

Set-CsAccessEdgeConfiguration -EnableArchivingDisclaimer $True

To disable the archiving disclaimer, set the value of the EnableArchivingDisclaimer property to False ($False):

Set-CsAccessEdgeConfiguration -EnableArchivingDisclaimer $False