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Appendix C: Services That Must Be Restarted

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.

In Office Communications Server 2007, multiple services can be associated with an individual server role. Changes to some settings require that you stop and restart one or more services. The following table lists the Office Communications Server 2007 services and explains when you must stop and/or restart a service.

Note

In addition to the service requirements that are described in the following table, we recommend that you stop the appropriate services for the server role before deactivating a server role to ensure that no users are connected to the server when you deactivate it.

Table C-1. Requirements for Stopping, Starting, and Restarting Services

Service Requirements

Office Communications Server Front End service

Stop the service when you use the DBImpExp.exe to export user information, in order to prevent users from logging on to the RTC database during the export process.

Restart the service after using the Office Communications Server 2007 snap-in whenever you change any of the following:

  • Certificate for this server. Exception: If the subject name and all other certificate settings of the new certificate except the expiration date are identical to the settings of the expiring certificate, it is not necessary to restart the service.

  • The following pool-level Front End Properties settings on the Archiving tab:

    • Activate content archiving

    • Shut down server if archiving fails

    • Shut down server if Message Queuing encryption fails

    • Activate call details recording

    • Archiving queue path name

Restart the service after changing any of the following WMI settings:

  • MSFT_SIPRoutingSetting:

    • DefaultPort, TLSCertIssuer

    • TLSCertSN

  • MSFT_SIPLogSetting:

    • Enabled

    • Critical

    • StopOnEncryptionInitFailures

    • EnableCDR

    • TimeToBeReceived

    • TimeToReachQueue

  • MSFT_SIPLogOptions:

    • Queue Path

    • ArchivingBEToken

    • CDRBEToken

Office Communications Server IM Conferencing service

Restart the service after using the Office Communications Server 2007 snap-in to change the certificate for this server. Exception: If the subject name and all other certificate settings of the new certificate except the expiration date are identical to the settings of the expiring certificate, it is not necessary to restart the service.

Restart the service after changing any of the following WMI settings:

  • MSFT_SIPRoutingSetting:

    • DefaultPort

    • TLSCertIssuer

    • TLSCertSN

Office Communications Server Telephony Conferencing service

Restart the service after using the Office Communications Server 2007 snap-in to change the certificate for this server. Exception: If the subject name and all other certificate settings of the new certificate except the expiration date are identical to the settings of the expiring certificate, it is not necessary to restart the service.

Restart the service after changing any of the following WMI settings:

  • MSFT_SIPRoutingSetting:

    • DefaultPort

    • TLSCertIssuer

    • TLSCertSN

Office Communications Server Web Conferencing service

Restart the service after using the Office Communications Server 2007 snap-in to change the certificate for this server. Exception: If the subject name and all other certificate settings of the new certificate except the expiration date are identical to the settings of the expiring certificate, it is not necessary to restart the service.

Stop the service before you configure log meeting content for compliance and before you create and configure file folders and file shares for meeting content and metadata. Restart the service when you are finished.

Restart the service after changing any of the following WMI settings:

  • MSFT_SIPRoutingSetting

    • DefaultPort

    • TLSCertIssuer

    • TLSCertSN

  • MSFT_SIPDataMCUCapabilitySetting

    • MeetingPresentationContentLocation

    • MeetingMetadataLocation

Office Communications Server Audio/Video Conferencing service

Restart the service after using the Office Communications Server 2007 snap-in to change any of the following:

  • Certificate for this server. Exception: If the subject name and all other certificate settings of the new certificate except the expiration date are identical to the settings of the expiring certificate, it is not necessary to restart the service.

  • The following pool A/V Conferencing Server Properties on the General tab:

    • IP address

    • SIP listening port

Restart the service after changing any of the following WMI settings:

  • MSFT_SIPRoutingSetting:

    • DefaultPort

    • TLSCertIssuer

    • TLSCertSN

  • MSFT_SIPAVMCUSetting

    • ListeningIPAddress

    • SIPListeningPort

Office Communications Server Archiving and CDR service

After you move the Archiving and CDR database, first start the MSSQLServer service, and then start the Archiving and CDR service.

Restart the service after using the Office Communications Server 2007 snap-in to change the Maximum days logged setting on the Archiving and CDR Server Properties, Service tab.

Restart the service after changing any of the following WMI settings:

  • MSFT_SIPLogServiceSetting

    • ConcurrentThreads

    • ArchivingDBPath

    • DaysOfArchiving

    • PurgeTime

    • LogFilePath

    • MaxLogFileSize

Office Communications Server Mediation service

Restart the service after using the Office Communications Server 2007 snap-in to change any of the following:

  • The following settings on the General tab:

    • Communications Server listening IP address

    • Gateway listening IP address

  • The following settings on the Next Hop Connections tab:

    • FQDN under Office Communications Server next hop

    • Port under Office Communications Server next hop

    • IP address under PSTN gateway next hop

    • Port under PSTN gateway next hop

Restart the service after changing any of the following WMI settings:

  • MSFT_SIPMediationServerConfigSetting:

    • ProxyListeningAddress

    • GatewayListeningAddress

    • ProxyNextHopFQDN

    • ProxyListeningPort

    • ProxyNextHopPort

    • GatewayNextHopAddress

    • GatewayNextHopPort

    • GatewayListeningPort,

Office Communications Server Address Book service

No stop or restart requirements.

Office Communications Server Access Edge service

Restart the service after using the Office Communications Server 2007 snap-in to change any Internal Interface or Access Edge Server settings on the Edge Interfaces tab on the edge server, including a certificate. Exception: If the subject name and all other certificate settings of the new certificate except the expiration date are identical to the settings of the expiring certificate, it is not necessary to restart the service.

Restart the service after changing any of the following WMI settings:

  • MSFT_SIPEdgeServerListeningAddressSetting

  • MSFT_SIPFederationExternalEdgeListeningAddressSetting

  • MSFT_SIPFederationInternalEdgeListeningAddressSetting

Office Communications Server Web Conferencing Edge service

Restart the service after using the MMC to change any Web Conferencing Edge Server settings on the Edge Interfaces tab on the edge server, including a certificate. Exception: If the subject name and all other certificate settings of the new certificate except the expiration date are identical to the settings of the expiring certificate, it is not necessary to restart the service.

Restart the service after changing any of the following WMI settings:

  • MSFT_SIPEdgeServerListeningAddressSetting

  • MSFT_SIPFederationInternalEdgeListeningAddressSetting

Office Communications Server Audio/Video Edge service

Restart the service after making any change to the Internal interface or A/V Edge Server settings on the Edge Interfaces tab on the edge server except for a change to the A/V authentication certificate. If the subject name and all other certificate settings of the new certificate except the expiration date are identical to the settings of the expiring certificate, it is not necessary to restart the service.

Restart the service after changing any of the following WMI settings:

  • MSFT_SIPEdgeServerListeningAddressSetting (except for settings with an AP or DP prefix)

  • MSFT_SIPMediaRelaySetting (except for BankCertSN, BankCertIssuer, or MaximumTokenLifetime)

  • MSFT_SIPFederationInternalEdgeListeningAddressSetting

  • MSFT_SIPMediaRelayNetworkInterfaceData

Office Communications Server Audio/Video Authentication service

Restart the service after making any change to the Internal interface or A/V Edge Server settings on the Edge Interfaces tab on the edge server, except a change to the A/V authentication certificate. If the subject name and all other certificate settings of the new certificate except the expiration date are identical to the settings of the expiring certificate, it is not necessary to restart the service.

Restart the service after changing any of the following WMI settings:

  • MSFT_SIPEdgeServerListeningAddressSetting (except for settings with an AP or DP prefix)

  • MSFT_SIPMediaRelaySetting (except for BankCertSN, BankCertIssuer, or MaximumTokenLifetime)

  • MSFT_SIPFederationInternalEdgeListeningAddressSetting