Compressing connections between servers and clients can improve performance on your network by reducing the bandwidth used by Office Communications Server 2007 R2. You can use the Compressiontab of Edge Server Propertiesto configure compression for the Edge Server, including the following:
- Server compression:
- Request compression on outgoing server-to-server connections.
Use this option to compress outgoing traffic between servers.
- Maximum number of server-to-server connections. If you enable
compression, you must specify the maximum allowable number of
connections to other servers. The valid range of values is from 0
through 65535; the default value is 1024.
- Request compression on outgoing server-to-server connections.
Use this option to compress outgoing traffic between servers.
- Client compression:
- Enable compression on client-to-server connections. Use this
option to compress incoming traffic between clients and the servers
in the pool.
- Enable compression on client-to-server connections. Use this
option to compress incoming traffic between clients and the servers
in the pool.
To configure compression on an
Edge Server
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On the Edge Server, open Computer Management.
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In the console tree, expand Services and Applications, right-click Office Communications Server 2007 R2, and then click Properties.
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On the Compressiontab, specify the appropriate server and client options.