Federation, remote user access, and public IM connectivity for an individual user account can be configured from the Communicationstab of Propertiesfor the user, if the individual user has been enabled for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and your organization supports the functionality. These settings control the following types of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 communications:
- Communication with users in organizations that are federated
with your organization. This setting controls whether a user can
communicate with users in another organization over a federated
partner connection.
- Communications with users of public IM service providers. This
setting controls whether a user can communicate with users of
public instant messaging (IM) networks. Public IM connectivity
requires additional licenses. A user does not need to be enabled
for federation to be enabled for public IM connectivity.
- Remote user access to Office Communications Server 2007 R2.
This setting controls whether a user in your organization can
connect through an Edge Server to Office Communications Server 2007
R2 when the user is outside of the internal network.
In order to use federation, public IM connectivity, and remote
user access features, you must first deploy the appropriate Office
Communications Server 2007 R2 Edge Server topology. For details
about deploying an Edge Server, see the
To configure federation, remote
user access, or public IM connectivity for a specific user
account
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Open the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 snap-in.
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In the console tree, expand the forest node, and then navigate to the Standard Edition server or Enterprise pool that contains the user account that you want to configure.
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Expand the pool name for the Enterprise pool or the Standard Edition server, and then expand Users.
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In the details pane, right-click the user account name, and then click Properties.
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On the Communicationstab, next to Other settings, click Configure.
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In the Other Optionsdialog box, under Federation, do the following:
- To enable or disable federation for the user, select or clear
the
Enable federationcheck box.
- To enable or disable remote user access for the user, select or
clear the
Enable remote user accesscheck box.
- To enable or disable public IM connectivity for the user,
select or clear the
Enable public IM connectivitycheck box.
- To enable or disable federation for the user, select or clear
the
Enable federationcheck box.