Remote users connecting to A/V conferences must be authenticated at the Edge Server. The Office Communications Server Audio/Video Authentication service authenticates users participating in A/V conferencing. To do this, the A/V Conferencing Server must be configured with the appropriate A/V authentication settings. The settings you specify at the pool level apply to inbound and outbound A/V connections (RTP/RTCP streams) on all A/V Conferencing Servers in a pool.

To configure authentication for A/V Conferencing

  1. Open the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 snap-in.

  2. In the console tree, do one of the following:

    • For an Enterprise pool, expand Enterprise pools, right-click the pool, click Properties, and then click Pool Properties.

    • For a Standard Edition server, expand Standard Edition servers, right-click the pool, click Properties, and then click Pool Properties.

  3. Click the Mediatab.

  4. On the Mediatab, in the A/V Authentication Servicedrop-down list box, click the internal FQDN to be used for the A/V authentication. If you completed the Configure Server or Pool Wizard during deployment of your Edge Server or afterwards, the available Edge Servers are listed here. If you want to change these settings, you can use the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 snap-in to view or update the settings for the A/V Edge service using Office Communications Server Global Properties.