Associate the Archiving and CDR Server with a Front End Server
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.
After you have activated the Archiving and CDR Server, you must associate the Archiving and CDR Server with each Standard Edition server and Enterprise pool whose traffic the service will archive.
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Perform the following procedure on each Office Communications Server whose traffic you want to archive.
To associate an Office Communications Server 2007 Front End Server with the Archiving and CDR Server
Log on as a member of the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group to the Office Communications Server 2007 whose traffic you want to archive.
Click Start, click Control Panel, click Administrative Tools, and then click Office Communications Server 2007.
In the scope pane, expand the Forest node, and then do one of the following:
If you want to archive an Enterprise pool, expand Enterprise pools.
If you want to archive a Standard Edition server, expand Standard Edition Servers.
Do one of the following:
For an Enterprise pool, expand the pool that contains the Enterprise pool that you want to archive, right-click Front Ends, and then click Properties.
For a Standard Edition server, right-click the name of the pool that contains the Standard Edition Server that you want to archive, click Properties, and then click Front End Properties.
Click the Archiving tab.
On the Archiving tab, in the Office Communications Server list, click the name of the server where you installed the Archiving and CDR Server, and then click Associate.
In the Associate Queue Path dialog box, click Message queue path name, and then type the name of the server where messages will be archived. When you are finished, click OK.
To enable archiving, select the Activate content archiving check box.
If your organization requires archiving for regulatory compliance, enable archiving in critical mode: Select the Shut down server if archiving fails check box. Communications Server will shut down if an instant message cannot be archived. For specific details about how critical mode works and how archiving failures are handled, see How Archiving Failures Are Handled later in this document.
If your organization requires encrypted archiving for regulatory compliance, select the Shut down server if Message Queuing encryption fails check box: Communications Server shuts down if Message Queuing encryption fails. For specific details about how critical mode works and archiving failures are handled, see How Archiving Failures Are Handled later in this document.
If you also want to enable call detail recording, select the Activate call details recording check box.
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Call detail records that pertain to Web conference meetings are not supported on Front End Servers that are in the Director role.
When you are finished, click OK.
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Whenever you change the archiving or CDR settings for a pool, you should restart all Front End Servers in the pool to ensure that the settings take effect uniformly. If you put archiving into critical mode on your Front End Servers and you then disable archiving and CDR, you must restart all Front End Servers; otherwise, one or more Front End Servers could stop running.