Setup and Administration Delegation

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.

In Office Communications Server 2007, you can delegate permissions to perform setup tasks or administration to a group of users that are not members of an authorized Active Directory group. Delegation is useful in situations where you want users who are not members of the Domain Admins group to activate Office Communications Server servers after the servers are installed.

You can delegate setup and administration in the following ways:

• To delegate setup permissions, you can use either the deployment tool wizard or the LcsCmd.exe command-line tool.

• To delegate administration, you must use the LcsCmd.exe for any of the following:

  • Delegating server administration

  • Delegating user administration

  • Delegating read-only user administration

  • Delegating read-only server administration

    Important

    You must specify a global or universal group that already exists when you delegate setup or administration. You cannot use a local group and this group must already exist.