Activating Enterprise Edition Server (Command Line)

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.

Use the following syntax example to activate an Enterprise Edition Server Front End Server.

LCSCmd.exe /Server:[<Server FQDN>] /Role:EE /Action:Activate /Password:<Account Password> /PoolName:<pool name> [/RefDomain:<Domain FQDN>] [/PDCRequired[:{TRUE|FALSE}]] [/GlobalSettingsDC:<FQDN of a global settings domain controller>] [/DC:<domain controller FQDN>] [/GC:<Global Catalog FQDN>] [/Global:{Configuration | System}] [/GroupDomain:<Group Domain FQDN>] [/GroupDomainDC:<Group Domain DC FQDN>] [/User:<Account Name>] [/UnRegSPN[:{TRUE|FALSE}]] [/NoStart[:{TRUE|FALSE}]] [/ArchServer:<Archiving Server computer name>] [/MonServer:<Monitoring Server computer name>] [/Force[:{TRUE|FALSE}]] [/L:<log file path>] [/XML[:{TRUE|FALSE}]] [/?[:{TRUE|FALSE}]]

Such as:

LCSCmd.exe /Server /Role:EE /Action:Activate /Password:My$tr0ngPwd /PoolName:Pool01 

Where:

Parameter Description

/Server

Executes the action for the specified server FQDN.

/server - activates the local server.

/server:<remoteComputerFQDN> - activates a role on the remote computer.

/Role

Specifies the role of the server.

/Action

Takes a string that specifies the action name. Valid action names include CheckLCServerState, Activate, and Deactivate.

/Password

Specifies the service account password for the server.

/PoolName

Specifies the name of the pool that the Enterprise Edition server is going to serve.

/RefDomain

Specifies the reference domain FQDN.

/Global

Specifies the global setting location.

/GroupDomain

Specifies the FQDN of the domain where Office Communications Server universal groups are located.

/User

Specifies the service account name for the server. It defaults to RTCService. If the specified user account does not exist, Office Communications Server 2007 R2 automatically creates the account.

/UnRegSPN

Specifies whether to delete all existing service principal names registered for the service on the specified computer.

/NoStart

Specifies whether to start the LC service on the server during activation.

/ArchServer

Specifies the computer name of the IM Archiving Server that the IM Archiving Agent will be using.

/MonServer

Specifies the computer name of the Monitoring Server.

/Force

Specifies whether to force task execution.

/L

Specifies the log file path. If not specified, %TEMP%\<ActionName>[<Date>][<Time>].html is used. To disable logging, use a dash character (-) as the log file name.

/XML

Specifies whether the log file to be generated should be in XML format instead of HTML.

/?

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