Topic Last Modified: 2011-04-06

The Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Best Practices Analyzer tool gathers configuration information from an Office Communications Server 2007 deployment and determines whether the configuration is set according to Microsoft best practices. You can install the tool on a client computer that runs Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, or directly on the server that runs Office Communications Server. We recommend that you install and run this tool on a client computer. The Office Communications Server 2007 Administrative Tools should also be installed locally on the client computer so that the Best Practices Analyzer can collect a full set of data.

For details about installing the Office Communications Server 2007 Administrative Tools on a 32-bit client computer, see "32-Bit Tools: Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Deployment and Management" at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=199486.

You can download the Best Practices Analyzer from the Microsoft Download Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=144315.