Enabling User Accounts for Office Communications Server
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 Enable Office Communications Server Users Wizard in Active Directory Users and Computers to enable users for Office Communications Server 2007. Using the wizard, you can enable an individual user or multiple users at a time. The primary enhancement to this wizard in Office Communications Server 2007 is that you can specify the format of a user's SIP URI. The different options for specifying the format of a user's SIP URI are as follows:
E-mail address
User principal name (UPN)
First name followed by a period and last name: <first>.<last>@domain
SAMAccountName@domain
For the last two options, you can select the domain name portion of the SIP URI from a list of the domains that are managed by your Office Communications Server 2007 infrastructure.
User accounts are not available for management in the Office Communications Server 2007 administrative snap-in until you first enable them for Office Communications Server using the Enable Users Wizard in Active Directory Users and Computers. Use the following procedure to initially enable users for Office Communications Server.
Note
After you use Active Directory Users and Computers to enable a user account for Office Communications Server 2007, the account is available for management in the Office Communications Server 2007 administrative snap-in. You can then use the administrative snap-in to configure settings for the user account, disable and re-enable the account, move the account, and perform other administrative functions for the account, including deleting the account. If you delete a user account in Office Communications Server 2007, the account is no longer available for use with Office Communications Server unless you use Active Directory Users and Computers to enable the account again. When you delete an account, all Office Communications Server settings for the account are lost, so you must configure the account again after enabling it in Active Directory Users and Computers.
To use the Enable Users Wizard to enable one or more users
On a computer that has Office Communications Server 2007 administrative tools and Active Directory Users and Computers installed, open Active Directory Users and Computers.
In the console tree, expand the Users container or other organizational unit (OU) containing the user accounts that you want to enable for Office Communications Server.
Select the users, right-click the selected users, and then click Enable users for Communications Server to start the Enable Office Communications Server Users Wizard.
On the Welcome page, click Next.
On the Select Server or Pool page, in the drop-down list box, click the Standard Edition Server or Enterprise pool to which you want to assign the users, and then click Next.
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On the Specify Sign-in Name page, specify how the SIP URI for the user name is to be generated, by clicking one of the following options:
Use user's e-mail address
Use user principal name (UPN)
Use the format: <first name>.<last name>@. If you use this option, also click the appropriate domain name in the box.
Use the format <sAMAccountName>@. If you use this option, also click the appropriate domain name in the box.
Click Next.
On the Enable Operation Status page, verify that each user was successfully enabled, and then do the following:
To export account information to an XML file, click the Export button below the list containing the accounts for which you want to export user configuration information, specify a name for the XML file, and then click Save.
To close the wizard, click Finish.
Use the procedure in the following section to configure the user account or accounts that were successfully enabled.