Installing and Using Administrative Tools

Topic Last Modified: 2009-05-23

You can install and use the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 administrative tools on any computer in the domain that meets the administrative tools prerequisites, such as on a computer that you use as a central administrative console. For details about installation prerequisites, see Internal Office Communications Server Component Requirements in the Supported Topologies and Infrastructure Requirements documentation.

Note

Installation and use of Office Communications Server requires that users be members of specific groups. For details about providing appropriate permissions and delegation, see Accounts and Permissions Requirements.

This section covers primarily the use of the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 snap-in to manage Office Communications Server. For details about using the LCSCmd.exe command-line tool to manage Office Communications Server, see the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Command Line Reference Guide in the Reference documentation. For details about other tools for administering other Office Communications Server 2007 R2 components, see the Communicator Web Access (2007 R2 Release) Administration Guide documentation and the Administering Group Chat documentation.

In This Section

This section includes the following topics:

• Version Restrictions
• Remote Administration Requirements
• Installing Administrative Tools
• Using the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Snap-in
• Using the Computer Management Snap-in Extension
• Managing Users Using Active Directory Users and Computers
• Quick Reference for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Administrative Tools
• How Server Settings Affect Client Functionality
• Server Settings That Require Active Directory Replication
• Services That Must Be Restarted