After you activate the applications that are installed on your application server and specify settings for the applications that require configuration, you must start the applications that you want to use.

Note:
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.

To start individual applications

  1. Log on to the Office Communications Server where you have activated unified communications applications as a member of the Administrators group, the Domain Admins group, and the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group.

  2. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Office Communications Server 2007 R2.

  3. In the console tree, expand the forest node.

  4. Expand Enterprise pools, and then expand the pool.

  5. Do one of the following, depending on whether you have configured the snap-in view options to organize servers by role or as a list:

    • Expand Applications, expand Application Host, right-click the server that is running the application that you want to start, click Start, and then click the name of the application.

    • Right-click the server that is running the application that you want to start, click Applications, click Start, and then click the name of the application.

Note:
If you want to start individual applications separately, you can also do this by using the service control manager (SCM).

To start all applications

  1. Log on to the Office Communications Server where you have activated unified communications applications as a member of the Administrators group, the Domain Admins group, and the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group.

  2. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Office Communications Server 2007 R2.

  3. In the console tree, expand the forest node.

  4. Expand Enterprise pools, and then expand the pool.

  5. Do one of the following, depending on whether you have configured the snap-in view options to organize servers by role or as a list:

    • Expand Applications, expand Application Host, right-click the server that is running the applications that you want to start, and then click Start all stopped applications.

    • Right-click the server that is running the applications that you want to start, click Applications, click Start, and then click Start all stopped applications.