Step 2.2 Deploy Archiving and CDR Server If Required
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.
If your organization needs to preserve IM conversations or other data about communications that use Office Communications Server, you must install an Archiving and CDR Server to perform compliance functions for any users that will be hosted on Office Communications Server 2007. For step-by-step instructions, see the Office Communications Server 2007 Archiving and CDR Deployment Guide.
Note
If your organization has compliance-related applications currently running on Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1, be aware of the following changes to the way instant messages are formatted and archived:
Office Communicator 2007 sends instant messages in rich-text format (RTF). These messages are archived by Office Communications Server in the same format in the Office Communications Server 2007 archiving database.
Office Communicator 2007 includes the first IM message as a base 64 encoded parameter "ms-body" within the "ms-text-format" header.
Any applications that are based on the Live Communications Server 2005 Management API and that intercept IM messages for compliance purposes might need to be updated for these changes.