Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Archiving Server is an optional server role for both Office Communications Server Standard Edition and Office Communications Server Enterprise Edition. This component archives for compliance purposes the content of instant messaging (IM) sent in Office Communications Server.

Archiving Server consists of the Archiving service and a SQL Server database, which is called the Archiving database.

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In Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Call Detail Record (CDR) information is no longer collected in the Archiving database. CDR information is now collected by the new Monitoring Server in the Monitoring database. For details about supported configurations for Monitoring Server, see Monitoring Server Component.

If you deploy Archiving Server, you can choose one of the following configurations:

If you deploy both Archiving Server and Monitoring Server in an Enterprise Edition configuration, you can also choose one of the following configurations:

If you deploy both Archiving Server and Monitoring Server in a Standard Edition configuration, you can also choose the following configuration:

The Archiving database can be a single SQL Server computer, or alternatively, a virtual SQL Server instance running in a cluster. A SQL Server cluster improves availability by providing failover capabilities.

Software-level disk mirroring, such as the dynamic disk management functionality in the Windows Server 2003 operating system, is not supported for the Archiving database. Only a single-disk configuration or hardware-level redundancy, such as a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) configuration, is supported.

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