Management
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.
Office Communications Server 2007 provides several administrative tools to facilitate the management of servers and users in an Office Communications Server 2007 deployment.
Office Communications Server 2007 provides dedicated administrative tools. Table 34 describes the available tools and their usage.
Table 34 Administrative Tools
| Tool | Purpose | Description | Availability and Use |
|---|---|---|---|
Office Communications Server 2007 |
Primary tool for management of Office Communications Server 2007 servers that are in an Active Directory domain. |
A Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in that is the primary administrative tool for Office Communications Server 2007 servers in an Active Directory domain. Use it to view and configure Office Communications Server 2007 pools, servers, and users, including the settings for the servers and users on Standard Edition Server servers and in Enterprise pools that are in the Active Directory forest. |
Automatically installed on each server in a domain that is running Office Communications Server 2007 or any computer on which Office Communications Server 2007 administrative tools are installed. It is not used to administer edge servers or Proxy Servers. |
Office Communications Server 2007 management components for Active Directory Users and Computers |
Additional tool for management of Office Communications Server 2007 servers in Active Directory Domain Services. |
An additional method of managing user settings for Office Communications Server 2007 users in the domain, based on the organizational unit (OU) or folder in which they reside, using the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in. |
Available on any server running Office Communications Server 2007 or any computer on which Office Communications Server 2007 administrative tools are installed, but can only be used if the server is in a domain. |
Office Communications Server 2007 snap-in extension for the Computer Management console |
Primary tool for management of Office Communications Server 2007 servers that are not in an Active Directory domain and for Proxy Servers. |
A snap-in extension for the Computer Management console that is the primary administrative tool for managing Office Communications Server 2007 servers that are not in an Active Directory domain (such as edge servers in the perimeter network), as well as Proxy Servers. |
Available on any server running Office Communications Server 2007 or any computer on which Office Communications Server 2007 administrative tools are installed. On the local computer, only server-level settings can be managed with this snap-in extension. If the local computer is not running Office Communications Server 2007, you can use Computer Management to connect to an Office Communications Server 2007 server and then use the Office Communications Server 2007 snap-in extension to manage the server-level settings of that computer. |
LCSCmd.exe |
Provide command-line support for Office communications Server 2007, including preparation of Active Directory and for backup and restoration operations. |
A command-line tool used to prepare Active Directory, create Enterprise pools, perform XML-based logging, manage permissions, and install, activate, check the status of, or deactivate servers, as well as to perform backup and restoration operations for Office Communications Server 2007 servers and Enterprise pools. |
Available on any server running Office Communications Server 2007 or any server on which Office Communications Server 2007 administrative tools are installed. This tool is used initially for Active Directory preparation, and then for ongoing backup and restoration operations, so it is not covered in this Technical Reference. For information about how to use this tool for Active Directory preparation and other command-line management tasks, see the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Command-Line Reference Guide and the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Active Directory Guide. For information about how to use this tool for backup and restoration, see the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Backup and Restoration Guide. |
In addition to the administrative tools provided in Office Communications Server 2007, you can use Windows Management Instrumentation Tester (WBEMTest), which ships with the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server and Microsoft Windows Server® 2003 operating systems, to modify WMI settings. Run WBEMTest tool on any computer on which Office Communications Server 2007 is installed. For more information about WBEMTest, see "Using WBEMTest user interface" at https://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidOCS?clid=1033&p1=Wbem.