Move Global Settings (Migration from Live Communications Server 2005)

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.

With Office Communications Server 2007 R2, the default container for Office Communications Server global settings is the Configuration container. In previous versions, the default container was the System container of the root domain.

Although storing global settings in the System container has advantages, such as faster replication and fewer replicated copies, in centralized topologies, this approach might not perform as well in geographically distributed topologies if root domain availability is insufficient. If you deployed Live Communications Server 2005 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) or Office Communications Server 2007 with global settings stored in the System container and you experience performance problems, such as long service start time or long replication delays when you manage global settings, we recommend that you move global settings from the System container to the Configuration container. The Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Global Settings Migration Tool is designed for this purpose. This tool is available from the Microsoft Download Center at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=137424.

For performance reasons, moving the global settings from the Active Directory system container to the Active Directory configuration container is recommended, but it is not required. If you want to move these global settings to the Configuration Container, it is critical that you do so before you run forest prep in the new Office Communications Server 2007 R2 environment.

To move these settings, use MigrateOcsGlobalSettings.vbs. The MigrateOcsGlobalSettings.vbs script is available for download at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=148536. The download contains the script and instructions.

This tool supports only Active Directory in Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2003; it does not support Active Directory in Windows Server 2000.

The procedure for moving the global settings is outlined below. The individual steps are described in detail in the topics listed below. You must be logged on as a member of the EnterpriseAdmins to perform this procedure.

You can run any of the following steps in read-only test mode by appending the /Check parameter to the MigrateOcsGlobalSettings command. This parameter prints the status of target objects and properties without making updates.

If any of the following steps fails to complete successfully due to network, replication, or permission issues, you can rerun the step until it completes successfully.