Setting Up and Enabling Accounts for Group Chat Servers (2007 R2 Beta)

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You must create Group Chat service accounts in Active Directory® Domain Services (AD DS) and then enable them for Office Communications Server 2007. This includes the following accounts:

  • An account for the Channel Server (if you are installing multiple Chat Servers, each Channel Server needs a separate account).
  • An account for the Lookup Server (if you are installing multiple Chat Servers, all Lookup Servers share a single account).
  • An account for the Web Service.
  • An account for the Compliance Server.
  • An account for managing Group Chat. This account acts as the first Group Chat administrator. Installation of Group Chat requires the same permissions as installation of Office Communications Server, so the user installing it must be a member of the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group or Domain Admins group.

After you create and enable these accounts, you need to add the Channel Server account, Lookup Server account, and Compliance Server account to the db_owners group of the Group Chat database(s). The Chat Server, Lookup Server and Compliance Server accounts need to be SIP enabled. For details, see Preparing Server Platforms. Use the procedure in this section to create and enable the AD DS accounts for installing and running Group Chat.

To create server accounts in AD DS

  1. On a computer that has Office Communications Server 2007 administrative tools and Active Directory Users and Computers installed, open Active Directory Users and Computers.

  2. In the console tree, right-click the organizational unit (OU) in which you want to add a user account.

  3. Point to New, and then click User.

  4. In the First name box, type the user's first name.

  5. In the Last name box, type the user's last name.

  6. In the User logon name box, type the user name, click the UPN suffix in the list, and then click Next.

  7. If the user will use a different name to log on to computers that are running Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT®, you can change the user logon name as it appears in the User logon name box to the different name.

  8. In the Password and Confirm password boxes, type the user's password, and then select the appropriate password options.

  9. Repeat this procedure until you have created all required Group Chat server accounts.

  10. Bulk provision the accounts for Office Communications Server.