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Topic Last Modified: 2010-07-18

This topic includes three procedures about managing a Survivable Branch Appliance. The first two procedures describe how to replace and rename a Survivable Branch Appliance, should you need to do so. The next procedure explains how to change the Communications Server Front End Pool that the Survivable Branch Appliance is associated with. The last procedure explains how to update a Survivable Branch Appliance with Microsoft Communications Server 2010 or Windows operating system patches.

To replace a Survivable Branch Appliance

  1. Stop all Communications Server 2010 services on the Survivable Branch Appliance. (See the Survivable Branch Appliance vendor documentation.)

  2. (Recommended) Remove the Survivable Branch Appliance from the domain.

  3. Delete the Survivable Branch Appliance computer object in Active Directory Domain Services, by following these steps:

    • Log on to a controller member server as a member of the Enterprise Admins group.

    • Click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers.

    • Right-click the Survivable Branch Appliance object, and click Delete.

  4. Add the Survivable Branch Appliance computer object again. (See Add a Survivable Branch Appliance to Active Directory.)

  5. Wait for Active Directory replication to take place.

  6. Open the Communications Server Management Shell, and type Enable-CSTopology.

  7. Connect the new Survivable Branch Appliance to the network, and follow the steps in Deploying a Survivable Branch Appliance or Server - Central Site Tasks and Deploy a Survivable Branch Appliance or Server - Branch Site Task.

To rename a Survivable Branch Appliance

  1. Move users to the central site.

  2. Stop all Communications Server 2010 services on the Survivable Branch Appliance. (See the Survivable Branch Appliance vendor documentation.)

  3. Remove the Survivable Branch Appliance from the topology, by following these steps:

    • Click Start, click All Programs, click Microsoft Communications Server 2010 (Beta), and then click Communications Server Topology Builder.

    • In the console tree, expand Branch office sites, click the Survivable Branch Appliance, and then click Delete on the Action pane.

  4. Remove the Survivable Branch Appliance from the domain.

  5. Delete the Survivable Branch Appliance computer object in Active Directory Domain Services, by following these steps:

    • Log on to a controller member server as a member of the Enterprise Admins group.

    • Click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers.

    • Right-click the Survivable Branch Appliance object, and click Delete.

  6. Restore the Survivable Branch Appliance to factory defaults. (See the Survivable Branch Appliance vendor documentation.)

  7. Follow the steps in Deploying a Survivable Branch Appliance or Server - Central Site Tasks and Deploy a Survivable Branch Appliance or Server - Branch Site Task.

  8. Move users to the renamed Survivable Branch Appliance.

To change the Communications Server Front End pool that the Survivable Branch Appliance is associated with

  1. Move users from the Survivable Branch Appliance to the Communications Server 2010 Front End pool at the central site.

  2. Stop all Communications Server 2010 services on the Survivable Branch Appliance. (See the Survivable Branch Appliance vendor documentation.)

  3. Update the Communications Server Front End pool that the Survivable Branch Appliance is associated with, by following these steps:

    • Click Start, click All Programs, click Microsoft Communications Server 2010 (Beta), and then click Communications Server Topology Builder.

    • Click the branch site, expand Survivable Branch Appliances or Servers, and then click the Survivable Branch Appliance.

    • Select the Front End pool, User Services Pool at the central site that this Survivable Branch Appliance will connect to, and then click Next.

    • In the console tree, right-click the new Survivable Branch Appliance, click Topology, and then click Publish.

  4. Restart all Communications Server 2010 Services on the Survivable Branch Appliance.

  5. Move users from the Communications Server Front End pool at the central site to the Survivable Branch Appliance.

To update the Survivable Branch Appliance

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