Introduction to Quality of Experience Monitoring

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.

Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007, Quality of Experience Monitoring Server, is a new server role for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition. The QoE Monitoring Server provides near real-time monitoring and service assessment of unified communications media.

This document presents the step-by-step tasks that you need to complete to deploy your Office Communications Server 2007, Quality of Experience Monitoring Server, and to monitor the media quality of experience for your Office Communications Server 2007 deployment.

For an in-depth discussion of planning considerations and guidance on designing your Office Communications Server 2007 topology, see the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Planning Guide and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Enterprise Voice Planning and Deployment Guide.