Preparing Active Directory Domain Services for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (2007 R2 Beta)

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Before you deploy and operate Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2, you must prepare the Active Directory® Domain Services (AD DS) by extending the schema and then creating and configuring objects. The schema extensions add the Active Directory classes and attributes that are required by Office Communications Server.

This section describes how to prepare Active Directory Domain Services for deploying Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and for delegating setup and administration permissions. It also provides a reference of the Active Directory schema required by Office Communications Server 2007 R2.

In This Section

  • Active Directory Infrastructure Requirements
    Explains the prerequisites to preparing Active Directory Domain Services.
  • Overview of Active Directory Domain Services Preparation
    Presents a high-level description of the procedures involved in preparing Active Directory Domain Services for Office Communications Server, including the purpose of, and actions performed by, each step. This section explains the general steps required for every domain and forest where servers running Office Communications Server are deployed.
  • Preparing Active Directory Domain Services [2007 R2]
    Provides step-by-step instructions for using the GUI deployment tool (Setup.exe) or the command-line tool (LcsCmd.exe) to prepare Active Directory Domain Services.
  • Preparing a Locked Down Active Directory Domain Services
    Explains how to prepare an Active Directory Domain Services when permissions inheritance has been disabled or authenticated user access control entries (ACEs) have been disabled.
  • Delegating Office Communications Server Setup and Administration
    Provides step-by-step instructions for using the GUI deployment tool (Setup.exe) or the command line tool (LcsCmd.exe) to delegate setup or administration tasks. You can use either tool to delegate setup permissions to a particular group so that DomainAdmins membership is not required. You can also delegate user or server permissions on a specific pool or server, or read-only user or read-only server administration permissions. However, before you delegate setup or administration tasks, you must prepare Active Directory Domain Services for Office Communications Server.
  • Active Directory Domain Services Reference
    Describes the classes and attributes added by Office Communications Server.