The topics in this section explain how to configure and manage your Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 deployment.
In This Section
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Management
Overviewprovides an overview of the tools used to administer
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and the new management
features in this release.
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Installing and
Using Administrative Toolsdescribes the administrative tools
available for managing Office Communications Server 2007 R2 servers
and users, including how to install and use the Office
Communications Server 2007 R2 snap-in, the Computer Management
snap-in extension, and Active Directory Users and Computers. This
section also provides a quick reference to the administrative
tools, a summary of how specific server settings affect clients, a
summary of the changes that require a service restart, and a
summary of the changes that require the completion of Active
Directory replication to take effect.
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Managing Global
Settings for the Forestdescribes how to manage the global
settings that affect all servers and pools in the forest, including
specifying the supported internal Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
domains, as well as viewing the status of specific components and
settings.
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Managing
Enterprise Pools and Standard Edition Serversdescribes how to
manage pools, as well as individual Microsoft Office Communications
Server 2007 R2 Standard Edition Server servers, servers in Office
Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise Edition pools, and
applications that run on servers and in pools. This section
describes how to control the availability of specific services,
servers, and applications, including deactivating and removing
those services, servers, and applications. This section also
describes how to configure Address Book Server, the component
responsible for providing global address list information from
Active Directory Domain Services and performing phone number
normalization for Microsoft Office Communicator telephony
integration.
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Managing
External Connectivity for Your Organization with Edge
Serversdescribes how to manage federation, public instant
messaging (IM) connectivity, remote users, and related
functionality to support external connectivity using edge servers,
including managing server connectivity between internal servers and
edge servers, configuring internal and external interfaces and
certificates for edge servers, and monitoring and managing access
by specific federated partners.
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Managing
Usagedescribes how to set up and configure specific functions
and features of Office Communications Server 2007 R2, including
those required for implementing support for Web conferencing
meetings, Enterprise Voice, distribution groups, contacts,
presence, queries, client version filtering, intelligent IM
filtering, archiving, meeting compliance, Quality of Experience
(QoE) monitoring, call detail recording, Front End scripts
(script-only applications), QoS, and Device Update Service.
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Managing User
Accountsdescribes how to enable and configure individual
accounts to provide the functionality required for each account, as
well as how to search for, move, and delete users.
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Using Office
Communications Server 2007 R2 Logging Toolprovides procedures
for using the debug functionality of Office Communications Server
2007 R2 Logging Tool, as well as other logging and tracing
functionality.
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Managing
Presence Policiesprovides procedures for modifying the default
policies that impact presence functionality for users of Office
Communications Server 2007 R2. This section also describes how to
create new presence policies and delete an existing presence
policy.