You can configure your organization’s Microsoft RoundTable devices to receive automatic updates from Device Update Service in Office Communications Server 2007 R2 by taking the following steps:

The following procedures explain how to perform these steps. Before you begin, ensure that you have a supported version of Microsoft Office InfoPath installed: Office InfoPath 2003 or Office InfoPath 2007.

Step 1: Install RTManage

  1. Log on as Administrator to the computer that you want to use to manage your RoundTable devices. For the purpose of this topic, this computer will be called the RoundTable management computer. This computer must be running either the Microsoft Windows XP or the Microsoft Vista operating system in order for RTManage to function.

  2. In the Microsoft Download Center at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads , locate the download page for RTManage by searching on “RoundTable management tool.”

  3. Follow the instructions to install the tool.

During installation, the following files are installed in the %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft RoundTable\Device Management\ folder by default:

  • Rtmanage.exe.The Microsoft RoundTable device configuration tool. The current version of this tool is in English only.

  • DeviceConfig.xsn.The Office InfoPath template for Microsoft RoundTable configuration.

  • DefaultConfig.xml.An example XML file for configuring the device.

Step 2: Specify update configuration settings

  1. If necessary, log on as Administrator to the RoundTable management computer.

  2. In the %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft RoundTable\DeviceManagement\ folder, double-click DeviceConfig.xsn to start the InfoPath configuration form.

  3. In the form, configure other settings as appropriate, and then scroll down to the Software Updatetable.

  4. Specify the update settings you want to use for your RoundTable devices, as described in the following table.

    Device Update Service Settings for RoundTable

    Setting Description Default Setting

    Automatically update using the update image server

    To enable automatic updates, select the check box. To disable automatic updates, clear the checkbox.

    Enabled

    Exclude configuration file from automatic update

    To exclude the RoundTable configuration file from being updated automatically, select the check box.

    Important:If you do not select the check box to exclude the configuration file from updates, it will be overwritten by a file containing the default settings. The default settings will not work with Office Communications Server 2007 R2 because they specify the server as Ucupdates rather than Ucupdates-r2.

    Exclude

    Update time

    Specify the time of day for RoundTable to receive automatic updates. Use 24-hour time in the form HH:MM, where HH (00 to 23) is the number of hours that have passed since midnight, and MM (00 to 59) is the number of full minutes that have passed since the last full hour. For example, 15:30. You can use half-hour increments, such as 2:00 AM, 2:30 AM, and so forth.

    3:30 AM local time

    Update interval

    Specify the interval at which you want the RoundTable device to be automatically updated, as follows:

    Every day

    Every Sunday

    Every Monday

    Every Tuesday

    Every Wednesday

    Every Thursday

    Every Friday

    Every Saturday

    Every day

    Server

    Provide the name of the updates server.

    Important:You mustchange this entry from Ucupdatesto Ucupdates-r2.

    Ucupdates

    Port

    Provide the number of the port used for device-server communication.

    80

    Uniform resource identifier path

    Specify the URI path on the server for server-device communication

    (empty string)

  5. If you want your RoundTable device log files to be automatically uploaded to the Web Components Server running Device Update Service, complete the information in the next table, Logging Settings, as follows:

    Device Update Service Settings for RoundTable

    Setting Description Default Setting

    Log to server

    To enable diagnostic log data to be sent automatically to the server, select the check box.

    Enabled

    Upload time

    Specify the time of day to upload the log. Use 24-hour time in the form HH:MM, where HH (00 to 23) is the number of hours that have passed since midnight, and MM (00 to 59) is the number of full minutes that have passed since the last full hour. For example 15:30. You can use half-hour increments, such as 2:00 AM, 2:30 AM, and so forth.

    3:00 AM local time

    Upload interval

    Specify the interval at which you want the RoundTable device to automatically upload log files, as follows:

    Every day

    Every Sunday

    Every Monday

    Every Tuesday

    Every Wednesday

    Every Thursday

    Every Friday

    Every Saturday

    Every hour

    Maximum log size in memory

    Specify the maximum size of the log file. It is recommended that you use the default value.

    1024 KB

    Server

    Provide the name of the update server. Provide the name of the updates server.

    Important:For the log upload to work, you mustchange this entry from Ucupdatesto Ucupdates-r2.

    Ucupdates

    Port

    Provide the number of the port used for device-server communication.

    80

    Uniform resource identifier path

    Specify the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) path on the server for server-device communication

    (empty string)

  6. Save the InfoPath configuration form as an .xml file (such as RTConfig.xml, for example). Save the file in the Logs\Config\ folder. For Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise Edition, this folder is located in the shared updates folder. For Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Standard Edition, this folder is located in %ProgramFiles\Office Communications Server 2007 R2\Web Components\. If you want, you can save different settings in files with different names to apply to different RoundTable devices.

Step 3: Apply the settings to a RoundTable device

  1. If necessary, log on as Administrator to the RoundTable management computer.

  2. Connect the Universal Serial Bus (USB) cable of the RoundTable device that you want to configure to a USB 2.0 port on the computer.

  3. Open the command prompt, and change the folder to %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft RoundTable\DeviceManagement\.

  4. Synchronize the RoundTable device time with the RoundTable management computer time by running the following command:

    Rtmanage.exe -m:cfg –t:now

  5. Upload the configuration file to the RoundTable device by running the following command:

    Rtmanage.exe –m:img –i:config –f <path to the configuration file>

    Example: Rtmanage.exe -m:img -i:config -f:RTConfig.xml

  6. Check the configuration for XML parsing errors by running the following command:

    Rtmanage.exe -m:cfg -q:cfgparseresult

  7. If there are no errors, proceed to Step 8. Otherwise fix the parsing errors and repeat steps 4, 5, and 6.

  8. Restart the device by running the following command:

    Rtmanage.exe –m:cfg -r

    Note:
    For help with RTmanage commands, run the following command:

    RTmanage.exe -h

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