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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 CALs

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.

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 offers both a Standard Edition CAL and an Enterprise Edition CAL.

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Standard Edition CAL

Standard Edition provides all IM, presence, and conferencing components, including data storage, on a single computer. Standard Edition call features include the following:

  • Basic computer-to-computer calling: Place, accept, hold, retrieve, and end calls.

  • Able to accept conference invites, but unable to set up conferences.

Because a Standard Edition server represents a single point of failure, we do not recommend it for mission-critical deployments where high availability is essential. For such deployments, Enterprise Edition is the required choice.

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise Edition CAL

The architecture of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise Edition reduces single points of failure through the use of multiple Enterprise Edition servers and a dedicated Back-End Database server. Enterprise Edition call features include the following:

  • All Standard Edition call features.

  • Advanced call features: transfer, deflect, and forward calls.

  • Support for telephony device.

  • Permits scheduling and initiation of multi-party conferences.

Remote call control (RCC), first made available as a part of Live Communications Server 2005, continues to be supported with Office Communications Server 2007 R2. RCC allows Office Communicator 2007 R2 to control a user's PBX phone line and indicate their presence based on the status of their phone. Users can answer their PBX phone with Office Communicator 2007 R2 and update their presence to "In a Call."

The following table summarizes these settings. For more information about Group Policy, see Group Policy for Unified Communications Clients. For more information about meeting policies, see Configuring Meeting Policies in the Administering Office Communications Server 2007 R2 documentation.

Group Policies for telephony

License Type Server Setting Group Policy Setting

Standard (Basic computer-to-computer calling

None (TelephonyMode 0)

Not present, or TelephonyMode 0

Voice (also called Standard with Voice)

TelephonyMode 1, 2, or 3

  1. Enterprise voice

  2. RCC and computer-to-computer calling

  3. Enables both RCC and Enterprise Voice

TelephonyMode 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5

  1. Enterprise voice

  2. RCC and computer-to-computer calling

  3. Enables both RCC and Enterprise Voice

  4. RCC, no computer-to-computer calling

  5. No audio, only IM and presence available

Enterprise

In the Meeting section of Global Policies:*

EnableIPAudio = True

EnableIPVideo = True

EnableDataCollaboration = True

DisableAVConferencing = 0

DisableDataConferencing = 0

Enterprise with Voice

Settings in both the Voice and Enterprise rows above

Settings in both the Voice and Enterprise rows above

* Using the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Administrative Tools snap-in

The following table summarizes the set of functions for each telephony mode.

Function based on Group Policy telephony mode

Function Mode 0 Mode 1 Mode 2 Mode 3 Mode 4 Mode 5

Computer-to-computer

x

x

x

x

 

 

Computer-to-phone

 

x

x

x

 

 

RCC

 

 

x

x

x

 

Forking

 

 

 

x

 

 

UC forwarding

 

x

 

x*

 

 

Handset phone

 

x

x

x

 

 

Basic VoIP

x

x

x

x

 

 

Advanced VoIP Feature

 

x

 

x

 

 

*****When RCC is not present