Walkthrough: Install and Activate Standard Edition Server
Topic Last Modified: 2009-07-19
Important
If you plan to deploy Edge Servers for external user access, we recommend that you configure the external URL during your Standard Edition server deployment. If you create this URL later, you need to use the LcsCmd.exe command-line tool. For details, see the Before You Begin section of Configure a Reverse Proxy in the Deploying Office Communications Server 2007 R2 documentation.
To install and activate Office Communications Server Standard Edition
Log on to the server where you want to install Standard Edition server as a member of the DomainAdmins group or with equivalent user rights.
Do one of the following:
- Insert the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 CD, and then click Standard Edition.
- Install from a network share by browsing to the \setup\amd64\ folder and double-clicking setupSE.exe.
Click Deploy Standard Edition Server.
At Deploy Server, click Run.
On the Welcome to the Deploy Server Wizard page, click Next.
Review the license agreement, click I accept the terms in the license agreement to proceed, and then click Next.
On the Location for Server Files page, do one of the following:
- To install the files at the default location, click Next.
- To install the files at another location, click Browse, browse to the location where you want the files to be installed, and then click Next.
On the Application Configuration page, do the following:
- To activate the Conferencing Attendant application, select the Conferencing Attendant check box.
- To activate the Conferencing Announcement Service, select the Conferencing Announcement Service check box.
- To activate the Response Group Service, select the Response Group Service check box.
- To activate the Outside Voice Control, select the Outside Voice Control check box.
On the Main Service Account for Standard Edition Server page, type the name of a new or existing service account that will run the core Office Communications Server service on this computer, type the password for the account, and then click Next.
Note
The default account is RTCService. For a new account, ensure that you use a strong password that meets your organizations Active Directory password requirements. When you create a new account, activation might fail until the account has been replicated in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). If activation fails, wait until the account has been replicated, and then try again.
On the Component Service Account for this Standard Edition Server page, type the name of a new or existing service account that will run the Audio/Video Conferencing Server and Web Conferencing Server components on this computer, type the password for the account, and then click Next.
Note
The default account is RTCComponentService. For a new account, ensure that you use a strong password that meets your organizations AD DS password requirements.
On the Web Farm FQDNs page, do one or more of the following:
- Verify that Internal web farm FQDN displays your server fully qualified domain name (FQDN). This FQDN is used by internal users for client download of Web conferencing content, distribution group expansion, and Address Book information.
- If you plan to enable external user access or federated user access to Web conferences, under External web farm FQDN (optional), type the FQDN that resolves to the external IP address of your reverse proxy. This FQDN is used by external users for client download of Web conferencing content, distribution group expansion, and Address Book information. It is also used by anonymous and external users to download Web conference content. For details about external user access, see External User Access and Deploying Edge Servers for External User Access.
When you are finished, click Next.
On the Location for Database Files page, to accept the default directories for user database and transaction log files, click Next. Setup automatically detects the best location for the files. If possible, place each database and transaction log file on a separate physical disk to improve performance. We highly recommend that you place the database files on a separate disk that does not contain system files or page files.
On the Ready to Deploy Server page, review the settings that you specified, and then click Next.
When the files are installed and the wizard has completed, select the View the log when you click Finish check box, and then click Finish.
In the log file, verify that <Success> appears under the Execution Result column, look for <Success> Execution Result at the end of each task, and then close the log window.
Note
As soon as the initial install is finished, access Active Directory Domain Service and open the properties for the RTCService and RTCComponentService accounts. By default, both of these accounts are created in a state that will allow the password to expire. Change the settings to either mark these accounts to not allow the password to expire or add the accounts to the normal service account password change routine.