Installing Exchange Conferencing Server

This chapter describes the tasks you need to complete before you install Microsoft^® Exchange 2000 Conferencing Server, as well as the tasks you need to complete after the installation.

Before the Installation

Before you install Exchange Conferencing Server, you need to plan your deployment and verify that your system meets the requirements for installing Exchange Conferencing Server.

Plan Your Deployment

Before you proceed with the deployment, review Chapter 3, "Planning Your Exchange Conferencing Server Installation," and Chapter 4, "Component Planning." Use the information in these chapters to plan the structure of your conferencing site. Also, consider the following questions to help you design your implementation:

How many instances of Conference Management Service do you want to install?
How many multipoint control units (MCUs) do you plan to install and where do you plan to install them?
Do you want to support secure conferences?
Do you need to bridge video clients?
Where do you plan to install Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)?
Do you want to accept connections from remote sites?
Do you want to accept connections from the Internet?

Verify Requirements for Installation

Before you install Exchange Conferencing Server, verify that you meet the following system, hardware, and user account for installation requirements. For additional information, see "System and Software Requirements" and "Hardware Requirements" in Chapter 3.

System Requirements

You must install Exchange Conferencing Server on a server running Microsoft Windows^® 2000 Server or Windows 2000 Advanced Server. In addition, the following applications and services must be available in the locations noted:

Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server (on your domain)
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) (on your site)
Active Directory™ in Windows 2000 (in your organization)

The following application and services are optional, depending on the features of Exchange Conferencing Server that you implement:

MADCAP Services in Windows 2000 (in your organization)
Certificate Services in Windows 2000 (in your organization)
Note If you plan to have secure data conferences, Certificate Services is one application you can use for granting certificates and authenticating users.

For an initial implementation, you can install all these components on a single server. At a later time, you can deploy Exchange Conferencing Server to the rest of your organization.

Also, Exchange System Manager must be installed on the same server as Conferencing Manager. Exchange System Manager is required to create any mailboxes, including the conference calendar mailbox, and conference resources.

Hardware Requirements

The following are the minimum required and minimum recommended hardware requirements for servers running Exchange Conferencing Server.

Minimum required:

133-MHz Intel Pentium processor (or equivalent)
128 MB of RAM
50 MB of available disk space on the drive on which you install Exchange Conferencing Server

Minimum recommended:

400-MHz Intel Pentium processor (or equivalent)
256 MB of RAM
50 MB of available disk space on the drive on which you install Exchange Conferencing Server

User Account Requirements

To install Exchange Conferencing Server, your user account must meet the following requirement for the local computer:

Member of the local computer Administrators group

In addition, the account must meet one of the following requirements:

Member of the Enterprise Admins security group for all domains
Member of the Domain Admins security group for the local domain
Member of Conferencing Administrators group. For more information, see “Creating a Conferencing Administrator,” later in this chapter.

Creating a Conferencing Administrator

You can create a Conferencing Administrator user or group for people to use to install, configure and administer Exchange Conferencing Server. You can use this account as an alternative for users whose accounts are not members of Enterprise Admins or Domain Admins.

To create a Conferencing Administrator user or group

Delegate administrative permissions for the Exchange Full Administrator role to the user or group at the organization level.

Use the Exchange Administration Delegation Wizard to delegate administrative permissions for the Exchange Full Administrator role. For more information, see "Delegating Administrative Permissions," later in this chapter.
Add the user or group to the Account Operators security group.

After delegating administrative permissions, add the user or group to the Account Operator security group using Active Directory Users and Computers. For more information, see your Windows 2000 online documentation.
Set the Enable Computer and User Accounts to be Trusted for Delegation policy for the user or group.

Use Domain Security Policy in Windows Administrative Tools to grant rights that enable other computers and users to be trusted for delegation. For more information, see "Enabling Computer and User Accounts to Configure Trust for Delegation," later in this chapter.

Delegating Administrative Permissions

Exchange Administration Delegation Wizard is a tool that simplifies delegating permissions to administrators. If the account that installs Exchange Conferencing Server is not a member of the Enterprise Admins or Domain Admins security group, you need to delegate the administrative permissions for the Exchange Full Administrator role to the account at the organization level. For information on using the Exchange Administration Delegation Wizard, see your Exchange online documentation.

If you use Exchange Administration Delegation Wizard to delegate permissions to an administrator, there can be a replication delay before you see these changes on the account. You can replicate directory information without waiting for the next scheduled replication cycle to occur by initiating an unscheduled replication. For more information on initiating an unscheduled replication, see your Exchange online documentation.

Enabling Computer and User Accounts to Configure Trust for Delegation

As part of the installation process, Exchange Conferencing Server checks the rights on the account that is installing Exchange Conferencing Server. If the account has sufficient rights, Exchange Conferencing Server sets the trust for delegation on the server. The trust for delegation setting allows any process or service running on the local server to request additional services on behalf of a remote client. For example, with the trust for delegation enabled, you can use Exchange Conferencing Server to conduct secure conferences, and conference organizers can control conferences (by extending the conference or modifying conference resources) when conference access pages and the active Conference Management Service are on different servers. Administrators for servers running Exchange Conferencing Server should be careful when they install other services or applications on the server. Ensure that these services or applications do not misuse the trust for delegation.

Use the following procedure to enable Exchange Conferencing Server to set the trust for delegation on the server.

To Set the Enable Computers and User Accounts to be Trusted for Delegation policy

Click Start, select Programs, select Administrative Tools, and then click Domain Security Policy.
In the console tree, double-click Security Settings, double-click Local Policies, and then double-click User Rights Assignment.
In the details pane, right-click Enable computer and user accounts to be trusted for delegation, and then click Security.
On Security Policy Setting, click Define these policy settings, and then click Add.
On Add user or group, under User and group names, type the user or group name you want to add, or click Browse to select from a list of users and groups.
On Add user or group, click OK.
On Security Policy Setting, click OK.

Installation

This section provides information about Exchange Conferencing Server components and the procedures required for an initial installation and subsequent installations. With an initial installation, you might install all components. With subsequent installations, you might select individual components to install on additional servers, such as the T.120 MCU/H.323 conference bridge.

Exchange Conferencing Server Components

The following table describes the components listed on the Custom Setup screen in Exchange Conferencing Server Setup.

Component	Function
Conference Management Service	Accepts reservations for online conferences, maintains conference schedules, and controls conference technology providers. When you install this component, Exchange Conferencing Server installs Data Conferencing Provider and Video Conferencing Provider.
T.120 MCU/H.323 Conference Bridge	Provides an MCU for T.120 data conferencing clients and a bridge that allows H.323 clients to participate in audio and video conferences.
Conference Access Web Pages	A set of Web application pages hosted by IIS. Conference participants use these pages to participate in online conferences.
Conferencing Manager	A Microsoft Management Console tool for managing and configuring conferencing services.

Initial Installation

Use the following procedures to install a complete version of Exchange Conferencing Server or to install only components that you select.

The following procedures assume that you have completed these steps:

You have installed Windows 2000 and domain name service (DNS) according to the Windows 2000 documentation.
You have installed Exchange 2000 Server according to the Exchange 2000 Server documentation.
You have installed Internet Information Services on a server on your site.

To install a complete version of Exchange Conferencing Server:

Log on to the server running Windows 2000 Server on which you want to install Exchange Conferencing Server. Insert the Exchange 2000 Conferencing Server compact disc into your CD-ROM drive.
Note For requirements for the user account that you use to install Exchange Conferencing Server, see "User Account Requirements" earlier in this chapter.
On the Welcome to the Installation Wizard for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Conferencing Server screen, click Next.
On the License Agreement screen, read the license agreement. If you agree to the terms, click I accept the terms of the license agreement, and then click Next.
On the Product Identification screen, enter the 25-digit CD key that is located on a sticker on the back of the product CD, and then click Next.
On the Setup Type screen, click Complete to install all Exchange Conferencing Server components, and then click Next.
On the Administrative Group screen, click Next to install Conference Management Service in the selected administrative group.
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Select another administrative group from the list, and then click Next.

Note The administrative group is selected for you if Conference Management Service is already installed on the site or if there is only one administrative group in your Exchange organization. Once Conference Management Service is installed in an administrative group, subsequent instances of Conference Management Service are installed in the same administrative group.
On the Ready to Install the Program screen, click Install.

To install a custom version of Exchange Conferencing Server:

Log on to the server running Windows 2000 Server on which you want to install Exchange Conferencing Server. Insert the Exchange 2000 Conferencing Server compact disc into your CD-ROM drive.
Note For requirements for the user account being used to install Exchange Conferencing Server, see "User Account Requirements" earlier in this chapter.
On the Welcome to the Installation Wizard for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Conferencing Server screen, click Next.
On the License Agreement screen, read the license agreement. If you agree to the terms, click I accept the terms of the license agreement, and then click Next.
On the Product Identification screen, enter the 25-digit CD key that is located on a sticker on the back of the product CD, and then click Next.
On the Setup Type screen, click Custom, and then click Next.
On the Custom Setup screen, click the icon of each component and select your installation preference. Click Change if you want to change the install location.
Note For information about available drives and their corresponding disk space, click Space.
On the Administrative Group screen, click Next to install to this administrative group.
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Select another administrative group from the list, and then click Next.

Note The administrative group is selected for you if Conference Management Service is already installed on the site or if there is only one administrative group in your Exchange organization. Once Conference Management Service is installed in an administrative group, subsequent instances of Conference Management Service are installed in the same administrative group.
On the Ready to Install the Program screen, click Install.

Subsequent Installations

After the initial installation of Exchange Conferencing Server, you can install additional copies of Exchange Conferencing Server components on other servers in your organization. For example, you can install additional copies of Conference Management Service, Conferencing Manager, and create additional MCU servers. The procedure is the same as for a custom installation.

Also, you can install MCUs on a Windows 2000 site without Exchange Conferencing Server installed. When you install an MCU on a site without Exchange Conferencing Server installed, you must select another site with an active Conference Management Service to act as the conferencing host server for the MCU.

To install an MCU on a site without Exchange Conferencing Server

Follow the steps to install a custom version of Exchange Conferencing Server (provided earlier in this chapter).
On the Custom Setup screen, click T.120 MCU/H.323 Conference Bridge, and then click Next.
On the Administrative Group screen, click Next to install to this administrative group.
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Select another administrative group from the list, and then click Next.
On the Conferencing Site screen, select the site that contains the active conferencing host server for this MCU. Click Next to select the site displayed.
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Select a different site from the list, and then click Next.
On the Ready to Install the Program screen, click Install.

Post-Installation Tasks

After you install Exchange Conferencing Server, you must perform certain tasks on the server and on the client computers. This section outlines these tasks.

Server

After you install Exchange Conferencing Server, perform the following tasks to prepare your conferencing site for online conferences.

Mailboxes

Create the following mailboxes for your conferencing site:

Conference calendar mailbox
Conference resources

For detailed procedures, see the Exchange Conferencing Server online documentation.

Exchange Conference Resource Mailboxes and User Mailboxes on Different Servers

Exchange Conferencing Server uses free/busy information for scheduling conference resources. If the conference resource mailboxes and mailboxes for users who schedule and participate in conferences are on different servers, there are additional steps to ensure that free/busy information is available to all mailboxes. You can do one of the following:

Replicate free/busy information between the server with the conference resource mailboxes and the server with the user mailboxes.
Change the default public store on the mailbox store for each server with user accounts to a shared public folder store.

For more information on these procedures, see your Exchange 2000 online documentation.

Exchange Conferencing Server with Participants from Earlier Versions of Exchange

If you expect users on servers running Exchange Server version 5.5 to schedule online conferences, you need a two-way Active Directory Connector (ADC) connection agreement to replicate conference resources from Active Directory to the Exchange Server 5.5 directory. For detailed procedures on creating a connection agreement, see your Exchange 2000 online documentation.

Client

After you install Exchange Conferencing Server, perform the following tasks to prepare your users to participate in online conferences. For detailed procedures, see the Exchange Conferencing Server online documentation.

Enable Microsoft Outlook^® 2000 users to reserve conference resources.
Install ActiveX^® components on client computers that cannot download ActiveX controls.
Provide certificates to your users for secure conferences.