Active Directory Global Settings and Objects

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.

Prep Forest creates global settings and objects used by Office Communications Server, as follows:

  • Creates the global settings in the Active Directory objects in either the system container of the root domain or the configuration container, based on the choice you select.

  • If you choose to store global settings in the System container in the root domain (recommended), adds a new Microsoft container under System of the root domain and adds a new RTC Service object under the System\Microsoft object. If you choose to store global settings in the Configuration container of the root domain, the existing Services container is used, but adds a new RTC Service object under the Configuration\Services object.

  • Adds Global Settings object of type msRTCSIP-GlobalContainer under the RTC Serviceobject. The Global Settings object holds all settings that apply through the Office Communications Server 2007 deployment.

  • Adds a new msRTCSIP-Domain object for the root domain in which Prep Forest is run. The domain can be specified in either command-line or GUI deployment.