Activate an Application

Before you can start an installed application, you must activate it. By default, all applications are activated during Office Communications Server 2007 R2 setup if you use the Deployment Wizard. During setup, if you cleared the check box to prevent activation of one or more applications, you can use the procedure in this topic to activate the application by using the Office Communications Server administrative tools.

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When you add a Front End Server to a pool, the application server that hosts unified communications applications is automatically activated. If you need to reactivate the application server or if you did not activate any applications during your initial deployment, you can do one of the following: Activate an application using the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 snap-in. Rerun the Configure Pooltask in the Deployment Wizard as described in Configure Pool and Applications. Rerun the Deploy Servertask in the Deployment Wizard as described in Install Standard Edition Server. Activate the application server in the command line as described in the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Command-Line Reference Guide. If you installed Office Communications Server 2007 R2 at the command line and you did not install the application server or any applications, you must first install the application server and applications before you can activate them.

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When you add a Front End Server to a pool, the application server that hosts unified communications applications is automatically activated. If you need to reactivate the application server or if you did not activate any applications during your initial deployment, you can do one of the following:

Activate an application using the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 snap-in.
Rerun the Configure Pooltask in the Deployment Wizard as described in Configure Pool and Applications.
Rerun the Deploy Servertask in the Deployment Wizard as described in Install Standard Edition Server.
Activate the application server in the command line as described in the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Command-Line Reference Guide.

If you installed Office Communications Server 2007 R2 at the command line and you did not install the application server or any applications, you must first install the application server and applications before you can activate them.

To activate an application using the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 snap-in

Log on to the Office Communications Server where you want to run unified communications applications as a member of the Administrators group, the Domain Admins group, and the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group.
Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Office Communications Server 2007 R2.
In the console tree, expand the forest node.
Expand Enterprise pools, and then expand the pool.
Do one of the following, depending on whether you have configured the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 snap-in view options to organize servers by role or as a list:
- Expand Applications, expand Application Host, right-click the server where the application was installed, and then click Activate an application.
- Right-click the server where the application was installed, and then click Activate an application.
On the Welcome to the Application Activation Wizardpage, click Next.
On the Application Configurationpage, do one or more of the following:
- To activate Conferencing Attendant, select the Conferencing Attendantcheck box.
- To activate Conferencing Announcement Service, select the Conferencing Announcement Servicecheck box.
- To activate Response Group Service, select the Response Group Servicecheck box.
- To activate Outside Voice Control, select the Outside Voice Controlcheck box.
When you are finished selecting your options, click Next.
To begin activation, click Next.
When the wizard has completed, click Finish.

When you are finished, you are ready to start the application. However, to run properly, Conferencing Attendant, Conferencing Announcement Service, and Response Group Service require additional configuration. For details about configuring Conferencing Attendant, see Configuring Conferencing Attendant. For details about configuring Response Group Service, see Deploying the Response Group Service.