Windows Server 2008 Support

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.

Running Office Communications Server 2007 on servers running Windows Server 2008 is not supported; any server running Office Communications Server must run one of the versions of Windows Server 2003 listed earlier in this section.

However, Office Communications Server 2007 is supported for use in a domain with domain controllers running Windows Server 2008.

For a new installation of Office Communications Server in an Active Directory forest that already includes at least one Windows Server 2008 domain controller in any domain, the installation of Office Communications Server will not require any extra preparation, and will install successfully.

If you have an existing Windows Server 2003 forest running Office Communications Server, and upgrade any of its domain controllers to Windows Server 2008, Office Communications Server will not work correctly; some UI elements will disappear, and you will be unable to add more Office Communication Server servers or pools. To resolve this issue, you simply reissue the command to prep the Active Directory forest for Office Communications Server.

To do so using the user interface, use the Prep Forest option of the deployment tool (for more information, see “Running Prep Forest” in the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Active Directory Guide).

To prep the forest using the command line, use the following command:

LcsCmd.exe /forest /action:ForestPrep 

(If you do not also specify the /groupdomain parameter, this action defaults to the local domain.)

For more information on using the LcsCmd.exe utility to prepare Active Directory for Office Communications Server, see the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Command-Line Reference Guide.