Prep Forest Overview

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.

The Prep Forest step creates Office Communications Server objects in the forest root domain Systems container, if the default option is selected, or in the configuration container, if you choose. These objects contain global settings and information about your Office Communications Server deployment. Prep Forest also creates Office Communications Server objects in the configuration container, which contain property sets and display specifiers used by Office Communications Server.

Prep Forest must be run once in each Active Directory forest where you plan to deploy Office Communications Server. See the section titled, Active Directory Preparation, for the specific steps and credentials required to run this procedure, later in this guide.

• Creates Active Directory global settings and objects

• Creates Active Directory groups used by Office Communications Server