The Address Book Server runs as a part of the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Front End service. This service runs on the following servers:
- Standard Edition server
- Front End Server in an Enterprise pool
The Address Book Server performs two important functions:
- The primary function is providing global address list
information from Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) to
Office Communications Server 2007 R2. If Microsoft Office
Communicator were to access Active Directory Domain Services
directly, network performance could be affected. To make address
book updates faster and more efficient, the Address Book Server
acts as an intermediary to provide address book information to
Office Communicator clients.
- The secondary and optional function is performing phone number
normalization for Office Communicator telephony integration. For
details about phone number normalization, see the planning and
deployment documentation for Enterprise Voice in the Office
Communications Server 2007 R2 TechNet Library at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=132106 .
In This Section
Administering Address Book Servers includes the following:
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Using WMI to
Configure Address Book Server Settings
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Configuring
Address Book Server Phone Normalization
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Configuring
Address Book Query Settings for Web Components
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Managing the
Address Book Server from the Command Line
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| The ABS Configuration Tool (ABSConfig.exe), which is available
in the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Resource Kit Tools,
provides a graphical interface that you can use to configure the
Address Book Server settings. To download the Resource Kit Tools,
see
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