4.3 Configure Users

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 will reach end of support on January 9, 2018. To stay supported, you will need to upgrade. For more information, see Resources to help you upgrade your Office 2007 servers and clients.

Procedures to configure global meeting settings are included in 3.6 Enable Audio/Video Conferencing and Web Conferencing in this document. All other user configuration settings are described in this section. Ensure that the global settings for desired features are such that they can be configured for individual users.

To configure users for Office Communications Server

  1. Log on to a server with the Office Communications Server 2007 administration tools as a member of the RTCUniversalUserAdmins group or with equivalent user rights.

  2. Click Start, click Control Panel, click Administrative Tools, and then click Office Communications Server 2007.

  3. Expand the Forest node, expand Standard Edition Servers, and then expand your Standard Edition Server.

  4. Select one of the following:

    • To configure all users the Standard Edition Server, right-click Users, and then click Configure users.

    • To configure an individual user, in the console pane, expand Users. In the details pane, right-click the user account that you want to configure.

  5. On the Welcome to the Configure Users Wizard page, click Next.

  6. Select the check boxes for the features that you want to configure for the selected user or users: Federation, Remote user access, Public IM connectivity, Enhanced Presence, Archive internal messages, and Archive federated messages. For each feature, click Enable or Disable, as appropriate. When you are finished, click Next.

    Note

    If you did not configure your global properties on the Meetings tab to enforce policies per user, some of options in the following steps will be unavailable.

  7. Select the Organize meetings with anonymous participants check box, and then click Allow or Disallow. Click Next.

  8. Select the Change meeting policy check box. In the Select a meeting policy for the users list, click the name of the policy that you want to apply to the selected users. When you are finished, click Next.

  9. To enable Enterprise Voice and configure the Enterprise Voice policy that will be applied to the selected users, select the Change Enterprise Voice Settings check box, and then select the Enable Voice check box. In the Select a Voice policy for the users list, click the name of the policy that you want to apply to the selected user or users, and then click Next.

    Note

    In order to configure a particular Enterprise Voice setting for a specific user, the corresponding setting under Voice Properties must be configured to allow enforcement on a per user basis. For more information about Enterprise Voice, see the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Enterprise Voice Planning and Deployment Guide.

  10. Verify the status of each user configuration operation, and then click Finish to close.