Compliance Server Backups

Topic Last Modified: 2011-04-29

Although a Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat Server allows only one active Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat Compliance Server in a pool at a time, you can install multiple inactive standby Compliance Servers and follow a set of manual disaster recovery steps to failover the processing of compliance events from one Compliance Server to another. If you are installing multiple Compliance Servers, all Compliance Servers, whether active or standby, should have a Startup Type value of Manual in Services in Control Panel. This is important because the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat pool cannot tolerate more than one active Compliance Server, and a Compliance Server should not start if it is not currently configured as the active server.

You can identify the active Compliance Server in the Group Chat database by using the value of the serverType column in the tbServerIdentity table. If the Compliance Server, identified by its fully qualified domain name (FQDN) in the serverAddress column, has an associated value of 4 in the serverType column, it is the active server.

The following topics describe how to install a standby Compliance Server, how to switch to a standby Compliance Server after an outage, and how to revert to the original Compliance Server. To perform the steps in the procedures, you must have read and write access to both the Group Chat database and the Compliance database.