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Configuring Office Communications Server User Accounts Using the Wizard

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.

You can use the Configure Office Communications Server Users Wizard in either the Active Directory Users and Computers or the Office Communications Server 2007 administrative snap-in to configure one or more user accounts. The procedure in this section describes the use of the Configure Office Communications Server Users Wizard in the Office Communications Server 2007 administrative snap-in to configure multiple settings for users.

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In Office Communications Server 2007, only users that have been initially enabled in the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in for Office Communications Server are available for configuration in the Office Communications Server 2007 administrative snap-in. Additionally, some user settings require that global settings be configured before individual user settings can be configured. If you enable federation for the forest, you can then specify that an individual user is either enabled or disabled for federation. If you configure archiving, meetings, or Enterprise Voice in global properties to use user settings, you can then configure archiving, meeting policy, and Voice policy settings on a per user basis. Other settings, such as remote access and enhanced presence, do not exist at the forest level and can only be configured on a per-pool or per-user basis.

To configure settings for one or more users using the Configure Office Communications Server Users Wizard

  1. Open Office Communications Server 2007.

  2. In the console tree, expand the forest node, and then navigate to the Standard Edition Server or Enterprise pool that contains the user account that you want to configure.

  3. Expand the appropriate server node or pool node.

  4. In the console tree, click Users, and then do one of the following:

    • To configure all users in this node, right-click Users, and then click Configure Users to start the Configure Office Communications Server Users Wizard.

    • To configure only specific users, in the details pane, select the users that you want to configure, right-click the selection, and then click Configure Users to start the Configure Communications Server Users Wizard.

  5. On the Welcome page, click Next.

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  6. On the Configure User Settings page, do the following:

    • To configure federation, select the Federation check box, and then click Enable or Disable. This setting can be configured, but it does not take effect unless the Enable federation and Public IM connectivity setting is selected in Global Properties on the Federation tab and the edge server is configured to support federation.

    • To configure remote user access, select the Remote user access check box, and then click Enable or Disable. This setting can be configured, but it will not take effect unless the edge server is configured to support remote access for Office Communications Server 2007.

    • To configure public IM connectivity, select the Public IM connectivity check box, and then click Enable or Disable. This setting can be configured, but it will not take effect unless the Enable federation and Public IM connectivity setting is selected in Global Properties on the Federation tab and the edge server is configured to support public IM connectivity (with federation).

    • To configure enhanced presence, select the Enhanced presence check box, and then click Enable or Disable. Once this setting is enabled for a user, it cannot be disabled for the user.

    • To configure archiving of internal messages, select the Archive internal messages check box, and then click Enable or Disable. This setting can be configured only if the Global Properties, Archiving, Internal communications setting is configured to use the Archive according to user settings option.

    • To configure archiving of federated messages, select the Archive federated messages check box, and then click Enable or Disable. This setting can only be configured if the Global Properties, Archiving, Federated communications setting is configured to use the Archive according to user settings option.

  7. Click Next.

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  8. On the next Configure User Settings page, select the Organize meetings with anonymous participants check box, and then click Allow or Disallow. These options are not available if the global setting is not configured to support anonymous participation in meetings, as described in the Enabling and Configuring Anonymous Participation in Meetings section of this guide, in Managing Connectivity between Internal Servers and Edge Servers.

  9. Click Next.

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  10. On the next Configure User Settings page, do one of the following:

    • To view the policy, click View. You can only view the settings of the selected policy. To change any settings shown in the View Meeting Policy page, edit them in Office Communications Server 2007, using the Meetings tab of Global Properties.

    • To change the meeting policy for these users, select the Change meeting policy check box and, to select a different policy, click the policy in the Select a meeting policy for the users drop-down list box, and then click Next.

    The Change meeting policy option cannot be changed for users if the global policy is not configured to enforce meeting policy on a per user basis.

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  11. On the Configure Enterprise Voice Settings page, do one of the following:

    • To view the Enterprise Voice policy, click View. You can only view the settings of the selected policy.

    • To change Enterprise Voice settings for users, select the Change Enterprise Voice Settings check box, select or clear the Enable Voice check box, and if enabling Voice, click the appropriate Voice policy in the Select a Voice policy for the users drop-down list box, and then click Next.

    To specify a Voice policy for one or more individual users, the global policy must be configured to apply the Voice policy on a per-user basis.

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  12. On the Configure Operation Status page, verify that the operation succeeded, 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.

    • To close the wizard, click Finish.