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Using the Office Communications Server 2007 Administrative Snap-in

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.

The Office Communications Server 2007 administrative snap-in is the primary tool for managing Office Communications Server 2007 servers and users that are in Active Directory Domain Services.

Note

You cannot use this administrative snap-in to manage edge servers, Proxy Servers, or any server that is not joined to a domain. You can use the Computer Management snap-in extension to manage those servers. For more information, see the Using the Computer Management Snap-in Extension section of this guide.
If you have deployed an Enterprise pool behind a load balancer using a Destination Network Address Translation (DNAT) configuration, do not use the Office Communications Server 2007 administrative console on the servers in that pool. Instead, manage those servers using the Office Communications Server 2007 administrative snap-in installed on another server that is joined to the Active Directory domain. Using the administrative snap-in on these servers can cause certain management operations, such as moving users, to fail.

The Office Communications Server 2007 administrative snap-in provides integrated support for managing Standard Edition Server servers and Enterprise pools, including the user accounts of each.

Figure 1. Office Communications Server 2007

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Use the information and procedures in this section to understand the requirements and procedures for the following:

  • Opening the Office Communications Server 2007 Administrative Snap-in

  • Changing the Domain View and Server Organization View

Opening Office Communications Server 2007

You can open the Office Communications Server 2007 administrative snap-in from any server in the domain running Office Communications Server 2007 or any computer in the domain on which the Office Communications Server 2007 administrative tools have been installed.

Note

The following procedure describes how to open the Office Communications Server 2007 administrative snap-in on a computer on which Office Communications Server 2007 has been installed. It can also be used from a computer running Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2003 R2 on which the Office Communications Server 2007 administrative tools are installed. However, if you installed Office Communications Server 2007 administrative tools on a computer running Windows XP or Windows Vista, you can only open the Office Communications Server 2007 administrative snap-in by using the WRTCSnap2.msc in the \Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 folder or by running mmc.exe and then adding the Office Communications Server 2007 snap-in to the console.

To open Office Communications Server 2007

  1. On the server running Office Communications Server 2007, log on using one of the following:

    • To administer user account settings, an account that is a member of the RTCUniversalUserAdmins group, or an account with equivalent privileges.

    • For all other administration tasks, an account that is a member of the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group, or an account with equivalent privileges.

  2. Click Start,point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Office Communications Server 2007.

Changing the Domain View and Server Organization View

You can specify how the Office Communications Server 2007 topology information is displayed and organized. By default, Office Communications Server 2007 is configured to hide the Active Directory view of your topology and organize servers by role. Use the Advanced View Settings dialog box and the procedures in this section to change these settings.

Figure 2. Default Advanced View Settings

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In the Advanced View Settings dialog box, in View, you have the following domain view options:

  • Show Active Directory domains. Use this option if you want to view domain information for each server. This option provides more information, but degrades performance.

  • Hide Active Directory domains. Use this option if you do not want to view domain information. This option provides less information, but improves performance.

Table 2 shows the console tree for both domain view options:

Table 2. Domain Views

Show Active Directory Domains Hide Active Directory Domains
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In the Advanced View Settings dialog box, in Filter, you have two organization options for displaying servers in an Enterprise pool:

  • Organize servers by role. Use this option to organize Office Communications Server 2007 servers into separate lists, based on the server roles. This option is generally most appropriate for administering servers in an Enterprise pool, expanded configuration. The role view of servers provides a better representation of such a deployment because the servers associated with the Enterprise pool are differentiated based on roles.

  • Organize servers as list. Use this option to organize servers in an Enterprise pool as an alphabetical list, without indication of the server role. Other servers are still organized by role. This option is generally most appropriate for administering Enterprise pools, consolidated configuration. The list view of servers provides is better suited to display your server information for such a deployment because all Front End Servers are configured the same, with the same server roles configured on each Front End Server.

The Filter options for server organization do not affect Standard Edition Servers.

Table 3 shows the console tree for both server organization options.

Table 3. Server Organization

Organize Servers by Role Organize Servers as List
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Important

The procedures documented in this guide generally use the default View option (Hide Active Directory domains) and default Filter option (Organize Servers as list). If you change either of these options, modify the steps in the affected procedures, as appropriate.

To change the domain view option

  1. Open Office Communications Server 2007.

  2. In the console tree, right-click Office Communications Server 2007, and then click View Options.

  3. In the Advanced View Settings dialog box, under View, click the appropriate option, and then click OK. A change is not effective until you close Office Communications Server 2007 and reopen it.

To change the server organization option for Enterprise pools

  1. Open Office Communications Server 2007.

  2. In the console tree, right-click Office Communications Server 2007, and then click View Options.

  3. In the Advanced View Settings dialog box, under Filter, click the appropriate option, and then click OK. The change is not effective until you close Office Communications Server 2007 and reopen it.