Searching for Office Communications Server Users

You can use the results of a search query to configure users for Office Communications Server 2007 R2. You can search for a SIP URI string, which can include wildcards. For more advanced searches, you can specify search criteria:

General: Find users assigned with high-level common settings. For example, find all users who are assigned to a specific server.
External access: Find users who are enabled or disabled for specific external access capabilities. For instance, find all users who are enabled for federation.
Meetings: Find users who have the same configuration settings for meetings. For example, find all users who use the same meeting policy or users with a certain meeting size who are enabled for IP audio and IP video support.
Archiving. Find users who have the same archiving settings. For example, find all users for which archiving of federated communications is enabled or disabled.
Telephony: Find users who have the same configuration settings for telephony. For example, find all users who use the same Voice policy or are enabled for simultaneous ringing of phones.

The following table shows the options that can be used to find users with common settings.

Table 1. User Search Criteria

Search category	Searchable settings
SIP URI	With or without wildcards
General	Server or pool Enhanced presence Enabled for Office Communications Server
External access	Federation Remote user access Public IM connectivity
Meetings	Policy name Web conferencing Allow presenters to record Allow attendees to record IP video IP audio Meeting size Color depth Allow program sharing External sharing access Native PowerPoint files Allow anonymous participation PSTN conferencing PSTN conferences requires PIN
Archiving	Internal communications Federated communications
Telephony	Policy name Simultaneous ringing Phone usage record PC-to-PC communications Enterprise Voice Remote call control PBX integration Server URI Line URI Location Profile

Note:
Some settings are available for searching only if the appropriate global policies are configured to use per-user settings.

You can search for users by using the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 snap-in or the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in. The following procedure describes how to use the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 snap-in.

To search for one or more users

Open the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 snap-in.
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 find.
Expand the pool name for the Enterprise pool or Standard Edition server.
In the console tree, right-click Users, and then click Find users.
In the Find Communications Usersdialog box, do one or both of the following:
- On the Communications Userstab, type all or a portion of the SIP URI of the user account that you want. You can also use wildcards.
- On the Advancedtab, specify additional search criteria that you want to use to narrow results. To specify the criteria, click the appropriate category in the Categorydrop-down list box, specify the appropriate search values for Setting, Condition, and Value, and then click Add.
Click Find Now.
The search results appear under Search results. You can select any or all of the users in the list and perform configuration tasks just as you can from the main snap-in window.