Administering Address Book Servers
Topic Last Modified: 2009-02-15
The Address Book Server runs as a part of the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Front End service. This service runs on the following servers:
- Standard Edition server
- Front End Server in an Enterprise pool
The Address Book Server performs two important functions:
- The primary function is providing global address list information from Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) to Office Communications Server 2007 R2. If Microsoft Office Communicator were to access Active Directory Domain Services directly, network performance could be affected. To make address book updates faster and more efficient, the Address Book Server acts as an intermediary to provide address book information to Office Communicator clients.
- The secondary and optional function is performing phone number normalization for Office Communicator telephony integration. For details about phone number normalization, see the planning and deployment documentation for Enterprise Voice in the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 TechNet Library at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=132106.
In This Section
Administering Address Book Servers includes the following:
- Using WMI to Configure Address Book Server Settings
- Configuring Address Book Server Phone Normalization
- Configuring Address Book Query Settings for Web Components
- Managing the Address Book Server from the Command Line
Note
The ABS Configuration Tool (ABSConfig.exe), which is available in the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Resource Kit Tools, provides a graphical interface that you can use to configure the Address Book Server settings. To download the Resource Kit Tools, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=133686.