Run Forest Preparation

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.

For Office Communications Server 2007, the ForestPrep action of the Lcscmd.exe command-line tool sets up the Access Control Entries (ACEs) that allow the Office Communications Server service to access the new global settings tree. You must run the forest preparation step again to create the ACEs for administrators and for Office Communications Server services and to validate the new global settings tree. You cannot use the Prep Forest wizard for this migration step. For details about forest preparation for Office Communications Server 2007, see Office Communications Server 2007 Active Directory Guide at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=129697.

Important

You must use the version of the command line tool LcsCmd.exe that is included with Office Communications Server 2007 to perform this step. Do not use the version that is included with Office Communications Server 2007 R2.

This step is complete when all permissions have been created for the new global settings tree, and the new global settings tree is replicated to forest global catalogs. Depending on the topology and replication configuration, full replication can take anywhere from minutes to days.