Manually Configuring the Administration Tool Connection
Topic Last Modified: 2009-11-11
If the Domain Name System (DNS) has not been configured to return the appropriate SRV records automatically when you connect, use the following procedure to manually enter the account configuration information.
To connect using a manually configured account
Open the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat Administration Tool.
In the Group Chat Administration Tool Login dialog box, in the Account box, select Edit Accounts.
In the Edit Accounts dialog box, click Add to add a new account to the Accounts list.
In the Display Name box, type a name for the new account configuration setting.
Note
This name is used in the Accounts box of the Group Chat Administration Tool Login dialog box for future sign-in attempts.
Click the Login Settings tab.
(Optional) Select the Use my Windows credentials to log in automatically check box to use single sign-on (SSO), which loads the password automatically from Windows.
In the Host box, specify the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the server running Office Communications Server.
In the Chat Room Domain box, type the domain portion of the lookup server's Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) (for example, if the SIP URI is someone@example.com, type example.com).
Do one of the following:
- If you are using the default SIP URI for your Lookup service account (for example, OCSChat@yourdomain.com), select the Use default server address check box.
- Otherwise, specify the SIP URI of the lookup service account, which was specified during the installation of Group Chat.
Click the Active Directory tab.
Under Global Catalog, do one of the following:
- Click Automatic connection configuration.
- Click Manual connection configuration, and then type the FQDN of the global catalog server in Host. The global catalog is a searchable index within Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) that enables users to locate network objects without needing to know their domain location.
Select the Use secure connection only check box to use a secure sockets layer (SSL) connection to connect to AD DS.
If the Channel service account does not have access to AD DS, select the Connect As check box, type the name and password for a Channel service account that has AD DS access, and then click OK.
Note
The name of the new configuration is added to the Accounts box on the Group Chat Administration Tool Login dialog box and you can use it to sign on.
In the Group Chat Administration Login dialog box, type the user name.