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Managing Users Using Active Directory Users and Computers

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 Active Directory Users and Computers to manage and configure settings for your Office Communications Server 2007 users. This includes the same user management functionality available in the Office Communications Server 2007 administrative snap-in functionality, including functionality to do the following tasks:

  • Enabling users for Office Communications Server.

  • Configuring settings for Office Communications Server users.

  • Moving Office Communications Server users.

  • Deleting Office Communications Server users.

This Office Communications Server 2007 management functionality is available in the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in only if Office Communications Server 2007 is installed on that computer.

In general, the user management procedures in this guide describe the use of the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in instead of the Office Communications Server 2007 administrative snap-in, but the user management functionality is available in both tools.

For more information about the Office Communications Server 2007 management functionality available in Active Directory Users and Computers, and procedures for using this functionality, see the Managing User Accounts section of this guide.

Opening Active Directory Users and Computers

Use the following procedure to open the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in on a computer on which Office Communications Server 2007 is installed:

To open Active Directory Users and Computers

  1. Log on as a member of the RTCUniversalUserAdmins group, or an account with equivalent privileges, to an Enterprise Edition Server or a server that is a member of an Active Directory domain and has the Office Communications Server administrative tools installed.

  2. Do one of the following:

    • Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers.

    • If Active Directory Users and Computers is not available from the Start menu, click Start, click Run, type dsa.msc and then click OK.