Holiday Sets for Lync Response Groups

If you use Lync Response Groups, you have probably noticed the lack of any built-in holiday definitions for any country. Setting these up yourself is a labour intensive and very boring process using Powershell. I figure I'd take the time to publish the commands necessary to setup the default holidays for both US and Canada.

First, copy and paste the holiday definitions into the Lync Management Shell as shown below.  If the dates and/or actual holidays are incorrect for your site, go ahead and change them.

2016 Holidays

$NewYear = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "New Year's Day 2016" -StartDate "1/1/2016" -EndDate "1/3/2016" $MLK = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2016" -StartDate "1/18/2016" -EndDate "1/19/2016" $Fam = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Family Day 2016" -StartDate "2/15/2016" -EndDate "2/16/2016" $Pres = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Presidents Day 2016" -StartDate "2/15/2016" -EndDate "2/16/2016" $GoodFri = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Good Friday 2016" -StartDate "3/25/2016" -EndDate "3/26/2016" $EastMon = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Easter Monday 2016" -StartDate "3/28/2016" -EndDate "3/28/2016" $Victoria = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Victoria Day 2016" -StartDate "5/23/2016" -EndDate "5/24/2016" $Memorial = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Memorial Day 2016" -StartDate "5/30/2016" -EndDate "5/31/2016" $CADay = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Canada Day 2016" -StartDate "7/1/2016" -EndDate "7/2/2016" $USDay = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "US Independence Day 2016" -StartDate "7/4/2016" -EndDate "7/5/2016" $Civic = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "CA Civic Holiday 2016" -StartDate "8/1/2016" -EndDate "8/2/2016" $Labour = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Labour Day 2016" -StartDate "9/5/2016" -EndDate "9/6/2016" $Columbus = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Columbus Day 2016" -StartDate "10/10/2016" -EndDate "10/11/2016" $CA_Thanks = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "CA Thanksgiving 2016" -StartDate "10/10/2016" -EndDate "10/11/2016" $Veterans = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Rememberance/Veterans Day 2016" -StartDate "11/11/2016" -EndDate "11/13/2016" $US_Thanks = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "US Thanksgiving 2016" -StartDate "11/24/2016" -EndDate "11/25/2016" $Christmas = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Christmas 2016" -StartDate "12/25/2016" -EndDate "12/27/2016" $Boxing = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "CA Boxing Day 2016" -StartDate "12/27/2016" -EndDate "12/28/2016"

Then run this Powershell command to create the holiday set. Replace YOURPOOLFQDNHERE with the actual name of the Standard or Enterprise Edition pool you want to create the holiday set. If your company has different holidays (ie Banks/government in Canada get Easter Monday off), add them to the holiday list (ie $EastMon)

For US
New-CsRgsHolidaySet -Parent "ApplicationServer:YOURPOOLFQDNHERE" -Name "2016 US Holidays" -HolidayList ($NewYear, $MLK, $Presidents, $GoodFri, $Memorial, $USDay, $Labour, $Columbus, $Veterans, $US_Thanks, $Christmas)

For Canada
New-CsRgsHolidaySet -Parent "ApplicationServer:YOURPOOLFQDNHERE" -Name "2016 CA Holidays" -HolidayList ($NewYear, $Fam, $GoodFri, $Victoria, $CADay, $Civic, $Labour, $CA_Thanks, $Christmas, $Boxing)

2017 Holidays

$NewYear = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "New Year's Day 2017" -StartDate "1/1/2017" -EndDate "1/3/2017" $MLK = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2017" -StartDate "1/16/2017" -EndDate "1/17/2017" $Fam = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Family Day 2017" -StartDate "2/20/2017" -EndDate "2/21/2017" $Pres = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Presidents Day 2017" -StartDate "2/20/2017" -EndDate "2/21/2017" $GoodFri = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Good Friday 2017" -StartDate "4/14/2017" -EndDate "4/15/2017" $EastMon = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Easter Monday 2017" -StartDate "4/17/2017" -EndDate "4/18/2017" $Victoria = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Victoria Day 2017" -StartDate "5/22/2017" -EndDate "5/23/2017" $Memorial = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Memorial Day 2017" -StartDate "5/29/2017" -EndDate "5/30/2017" $CADay = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Canada Day 2017" -StartDate "7/1/2017" -EndDate "7/2/2017" $USDay = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "US Independence Day 2017" -StartDate "7/4/2017" -EndDate "7/5/2017" $Civic = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "CA Civic Holiday 2017" -StartDate "8/7/2017" -EndDate "8/8/2017" $Labour = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Labour Day 2017" -StartDate "9/4/2017" -EndDate "9/5/2017" $Columbus = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Columbus Day 2017" -StartDate "10/9/2017" -EndDate "10/10/2017" $CA_Thanks = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "CA Thanksgiving 2017" -StartDate "10/9/2017" -EndDate "10/10/2017" $Veterans = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Rememberance/Veterans Day 2017" -StartDate "11/11/2017" -EndDate "11/13/2017" $US_Thanks = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "US Thanksgiving 2017" -StartDate "11/23/2017" -EndDate "11/24/2017" $Christmas = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "Christmas 2017" -StartDate "12/25/2017" -EndDate "12/26/2017" $Boxing = New-CsRgsHoliday -Name "CA Boxing Day 2017" -StartDate "12/26/2017" -EndDate "12/27/2017"

Then run this Powershell command to create the holiday set. Replace YOURPOOLFQDNHERE with the actual name of the Standard or Enterprise Edition pool you want to create the holiday set. If your company has different holidays (ie Banks/government in Canada get Easter Monday off), add them to the holiday list (ie $EastMon)

For US
New-CsRgsHolidaySet -Parent "ApplicationServer:YOURPOOLFQDNHERE" -Name "2017 US Holidays" -HolidayList ($NewYear, $MLK, $Presidents, $GoodFri, $Memorial, $USDay, $Labour, $Columbus, $Veterans, $US_Thanks, $Christmas)

For Canada
New-CsRgsHolidaySet -Parent "ApplicationServer:YOURPOOLFQDNHERE" -Name "2017 CA Holidays" -HolidayList ($NewYear, $Fam, $GoodFri, $Victoria, $CADay, $Civic, $Labour, $CA_Thanks, $Christmas, $Boxing)

Enjoy!