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Managing Web Conferencing

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.

Managing Web conferencing includes the following:

  • Configuring the Listening Address for Web Conferencing Servers

  • Configuring Certificates for Web Conferencing Servers

All Web Conferencing Servers in an Enterprise pool must be identically configured.

Use the information and procedures in this section to configure settings for these servers.

Configuring the Listening Address for Web Conferencing Servers

Use the General tab of the Web Conferencing Server properties to configure the listening address for the Web Conferencing Server. This is the address to which users and the Web Conferencing Edge Servers connect. Configuring the listening address includes configuring the following:

  • IP address. This is the IP address that is associated with the Web Conferencing Server. The default is All, which is recommended if IP addresses in your environment are assigned dynamically or if your environment will use the FQDN to refer to the Web Conferencing Server, but it can also be a specific IP address.

  • Media listening port. This is the port on which the Web Conferencing Server receives media.

A listening address is a combination of the IP address and port on which a server can receive inbound connections. You can create multiple listening address combinations for the server, but each combination must be different.

To configure the listening address for a Web Conferencing Server

  1. Open Office Communications Server 2007.

  2. In the console tree, expand the forest node, and then do one of the following:

    • For an Enterprise pool, expand Enterprise pools, expand the pool, expand Web Conferencing, right-click the Web Conferencing Server that you want to configure, and then click Properties.

    • For a Standard Edition Server, expand Standard Edition servers, expand the pool, right-click the server, click Properties, and then click Web Conferencing Properties.

  3. Click the General tab.

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  4. On the General tab, under Settings, in the IP address drop-down list box, click the specific IP address you want the Web Conferencing Server to use or, to include all IP addresses for the FQDN, click All. This is the address to which users connect.

  5. In Media listening port, type the port number to which you want the Web Conferencing Edge Server and users to connect. If you change this port number, ensure that you also change the corresponding setting on the Web Conferencing Edge Server internal interface.

Configuring Certificates for Web Conferencing Servers

In a Standard Edition Server deployment or an Enterprise pool in a consolidated configuration, the Web Conferencing Server is collocated with the Front End Server so the Web Conferencing Server uses the certificate configured for the Front End Server. For an Enterprise pool in an expanded configuration, you must configure the certificate for the Web Conferencing Server separately.

You should have set up this certificate using the Certificate Wizard when you deployed the Standard Edition Server or Enterprise pool. If you want to change the certificate, you can do either of the following:

  • You can use the Certificate Wizard to guide you through the process of requesting and assigning a certificate. (You can launch the Certificate Wizard from the Available tasks pane in Office Communications Server 2007 and in Computer Management for Standard Edition Servers. You can also access it from the Office Communications Server 2007 installation media).

  • If you want to assign a different certificate on an individual server, view a certificate, or delete a certificate, you can open the individual server's properties and configure the certificate using the Certificate tab. Deleting a certificate causes it to no longer be assigned to the server for TLS or MTLS, but the certificate is not deleted from the computer. The procedure in this section describes the use of the Certificate tab.

Any modifications you make are only applied to future connections—existing connections continue to use the old certificate as long as the connection continues.

To configure a certificate for a Web Conferencing Server

  1. Open Office Communications Server 2007.

  2. In the console tree, expand the forest node, and then do one of the following:

    • For an Enterprise pool, expand Enterprise pools, expand the pool, expand Web Conferencing, right-click the Web Conferencing Server that you want to configure, and then click Properties.

    • For a Standard Edition Server, expand Standard Edition servers, right-click the server, click Properties, and then click Web Conferencing Properties.

  3. On the Certificate tab, do one of the following:

    • To delete a certificate, click the certificate, and then click Delete Certificate.

    • To assign a new certificate, click Select Certificate.

  4. If any certificate setting on the new certificate other than the expiration date is different from the corresponding setting on the old certificate, restart the Office Communications Server Web Conferencing service for the change to take effect for all connections.