Server Technical Documentation Downloads

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.

The following tables list the documents and topics in the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 server documentation library that are available for download. To download a document, click the Download Now link in the column to the right of the topic title.

Getting Started

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Documentation Roadmap

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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Technical Overview

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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 New Server Features

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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 New Client Features

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Microsoft Unified Communications Glossary

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Planning and Supportability

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Planning Guide

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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Supportability Guide

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Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2Planning Workbook

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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Site Resiliency

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Capacity Planning for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Group Chat Server with QFE1

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Running Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 in a Virtualized Topology

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To facilitate planning, use the documentation with the planning tools provided for Office Communications Server:

  • Run the Planning Tool for Office Communications Server 2007, first, to help you understand what is required for planning and, later, to help automate much of the topology and component design. The Planning Tool is available for free download at the Microsoft Download Center at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=132927.

  • Use the Edge Planning Tool for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 to create reports to help with the configuration of edge components. The Edge Planning Tool is available for free download at the Microsoft Download Center at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=161872.

  • Read the Planning Workbook (listed in the previous table) to understand the planning and deployment requirements, as well as to answer the questions that will provide the information you need for deployment.

  • Read the sections of the Supportability Guide and the Planning Guide (listed in the previous table) that are appropriate for the features that you are deploying for detailed planning information.

  • Use the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Capacity Planning Tool to facilitate client simulation, modeling, and stress testing for many components (in a test environment only). The Capacity Planning Tool is available for free download at the Microsoft Download Center at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=166289.

Deployment

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Active Directory Guide

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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise Edition Deployment Guide

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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Standard Edition Deployment Guide

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Deploying Certificates

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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Edge Server Deployment Guide

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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise Voice Deployment Guide

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Office Communicator Web Access (2007 R2 Release) Deployment Guide

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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Monitoring Server Deployment Guide

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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Archiving Deployment Guide

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Deploying Dial-In Conferencing

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Deploying Response Group Service

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Deploying Group Chat Server

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Upgrading the Evaluation Version to the Full Released Version

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Deploying Office Communications Server 2007 R2 in a Multiple Forest Environment

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Small-to-Medium Business Deployment Walkthrough

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Enterprise Voice Deployment Walkthrough

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Mediation Server Replacement Walkthrough

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Scale to a Load Balanced Enterprise Edition Pool Walkthrough

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Scale a to Load Balanced Edge Server Walkthrough

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Migration

Migrating to Office Communications Server 2007 R2 from Office Communications Server 2007

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Migrating to Office Communications Server 2007 R2 from Live Communications Server 2005

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Operations

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Administration Guide

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Office Communicator Web Access (2007 R2 Release) Administration Guide

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Administering Group Chat

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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Backup and Restoration Guide

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Security

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Security Guide

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Deploying Certificates in Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 R2

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Reference

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Technical Reference Guide

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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Command-Line Reference Guide

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Troubleshooting

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Troubleshooting Guide

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  • Planning, Deploying, and Administering XMPP Gateway for Office Communications Server, which is available for download from the XMPP Gateway site of the Microsoft Download Center at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=141529.

Note

In previous releases, Office Communications Server 2007 provided documentation primarily in the form of downloadable planning guides, deployment guides, and administration guides that typically described one server role in each separate document. While the downloadable documents for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 do not map directly to the guides for Office Communications Server 2007, they are similar. If you are familiar with the documentation from Office Communications Server 2007, the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 documentation listed in the tables in this topic are similar to the earlier documents in the following ways:

  • Getting Started includes content that is similar to the Documentation Roadmap, Technical Overview.

  • Planning and Supportability includes content that is similar to content that spanned multiple Planning Guides (including Planning and Deployment Guides) and the Supportability Guide.

  • Deployment includes content that is similar to the Standard Edition Deployment Guide, Enterprise Edition Deployment Guide, Edge Server Deployment Guide, Enterprise Voice Planning and Deployment Guide, Communicator Web Access Planning and Deployment Guide, QoE Monitoring Server Guide, Archiving and CDR Server Deployment Guide, Active Directory Guide, and Upgrading Office Communications Server 2007 Evaluation to the Full Released Version document.

  • Migration includes content that is similar to the Migrating to Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 document.

  • Operations includes content that is similar to the Administration Guide, Communicator Web Access Administration Guide, and Backup and Restoration Guide.

  • Security includes content that is similar to the Security Guide.

  • Reference includes content that is similar to the Technical Reference and Command-Line Reference Guide.

  • Troubleshooting includes content that is similar to the VoIP Troubleshooting Guide.