Session 1
Operating system
Windows Server
Office Communications
Office Communications
Live Communications
Server 2007 R2
Server 2007
Server 2005 with SP1
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
2000 with at least
SP 4
Windows Server
2003 with at least
SP1
Windows Server
2003 R2
Windows Server
2008
Windows Server
2008 R2
Forest and
Office Communications
Office Communications
Live Communications
domain functional
Server 2007 R2
Server 2007
Server 2005 with SP1
level
Windows Server
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
2000
Windows Server
2003
Windows Server
2008
Feature
Virtual Directory URI
Address Book Server
https://<External FQDN>/ABS/Ext/Handler
Client updates
https://<External FQDN>/AutoUpdate/Ext
Conf
https://<External FQDN>/Conf/Ext
Device updates
https://<External FQDN>/DeviceUpdateFiles_Ext
Group Expansion and
Address Book Web Query
service
https://<External
FQDN>/GroupExpansion/Ext/service.asmx
Phone Conferencing
https://<External FQDN>/PhoneConferencing/Ext
Device updates
https://<external FQDN>/RequestHandlerExt
Edge Server
firewall
reverse proxy
TCP idle time out
seconds
1,800
as a NAT is not supported
Edge Server
destination NAT (DNAT)
single
source NAT (SNAT)
multiple Edge
Servers
not
In all Edge Server topologies
as a NAT
internal firewall
scalability
high availability
Deployment
Hardware load balancer
Standard Edition server
Not required.
Enterprise Pool with multiple Front End
Servers
Required.
Enterprise pool with single Front End
Server
Not required.
Array of Directors
Required for Enterprise pool. Not
supported for Standard Edition servers.
Array of Consolidated Edge Servers
Required.
not supported
Communicator Web Access
Enterprise pool
65,000
two SNAT IP
Port required
Virtual IP
Port use
Load balancer VIP used by the
Front End Servers
Client to server SIP communication over TCP
5061
Load balancer VIP used by the
Front End Servers
Client to Front End Server SIP communication
over TLS
SIP communication between Front End Servers
over MTLS
5065
Load balancer VIP used by the
Front End Servers
5069
Load balancer VIP used by the
Front End Servers
135
Load balancer VIP used by the
Front End Servers
444
Load balancer VIP used by the
Front End Servers
443
Load balancer VIP used by the
Web Components Server
5060
Used for incoming SIP listening requests for
application sharing over TCP
Used by QoE Agent on Front End Servers, needs
to be open only if this pool sends QoE data to
Monitoring Server
To move users and perform other pool level
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
operations over DCOM
Communication between the internal components
that manage conferencing and the conferencing
servers
HTTPS traffic to the pool URLs
TCP-level affinity
one
TCP idle-timeout
20 minutes
Note
without shutting down
least-connections
availability
monitoring server
controller
Exchange UM
Active Directory domain
This server role/configuration
Standard Edition
configuration
Enterprise Edition
consolidated configuration
Back-End Database
Can collocate with this server
role/component
Cannot collocate with this server
role/component
·
Archiving Server (not recommended)
·
Director
·
Monitoring Server
·
Communicator Web Access
·
Edge Server
·
Mediation Server
·
Group Chat Server or Compliance
Server
None
Never collocated
·
Archiving database (in a shared SQL
Server instance)*
·
Back-End Database for a different
pool
·
Monitoring database (in a shared SQL
Server instance)*
·
Director database in a shared SQL
Server instance
·
Group Chat database (in a shared SQL
Server instance)*
·
Any other Office Communications
Server role
·
Compliance database (for Group Chat)
(in a shared SQL Server instance)*
·
Director database (only on a shared
server; must run in a dedicated SQL
Server instance)
This server role/configuration
Can collocate with this server
role/component
Cannot collocate with this server
role/component
Enterprise Edition expanded
configuration, Front End Server
None
Never collocated
Enterprise Edition expanded
configuration, Web
Conferencing Server
None
Never collocated
Enterprise Edition expanded
configuration, Application
Sharing Server
None
Never collocated
Enterprise Edition expanded
configuration, A/V
Conferencing Server
None
Never collocated
Enterprise Edition expanded
configuration, Web
components
·
·
Archiving Server
Monitoring Server
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
Front End Server
Web Conferencing Server
Application Sharing Server
A/V Conferencing Server
Director
Communicator Web Access
Edge Server
Mediation Server
Group Chat Server or Compliance
Server
This server role/configuration
Can collocate with this server
role/component
Cannot collocate with this server
role/component
Director
None
Never collocated
Communicator Web Access
None
Never collocated
Edge Server
None
Never collocated
Mediation Server
None
Never collocated
Archiving Server / Monitoring
Server
·
·
·
·
·
·
Web components
·
Monitoring Server
·
Standard Edition server (not ·
recommended)
·
·
·
Front End Server
Web Conferencing Server
Application Sharing Server
A/V Conferencing Server
Director
Communicator Web Access
Edge Server
Mediation Server
Group Chat Server or Compliance
Server
Group Chat Server
None
Never collocated
Compliance Server (for Group
Chat)
None
Never collocated
a 64-bit
only in
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948680/en-us
only on the 32-bit
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/supportedapplications.aspx
Q1 2010
R2 and later versions
cannot be
homed
Note
federated partners
Microsoft Office Outlook
Microsoft Exchange Server
Note:
Unified Messaging
not
supported
If you require any of these workloads, you must deploy a new pool
with physical servers for those users
messaging
instant
presence
TCP
must
not support
All
cannot mix
pool
server
Group Chat
virtualized server
physical servers
back-end database
virtualized
Front End
physical server
Role
Supported
Enterprise front-end server
Yes
Standard Edition Server
No
IM Conferencing Server
Yes
Supported features
Presence, IM
IM Conferencing
Remote Access
Access Edge Server
Yes
SQL Server back-end server
Yes
Office Communications
Server Backend
Group Chat Channel Server
Yes
Channel Server
Group Chat Look-up Server
Yes
Channel and Load
balancing management
Group Chat back-end server
Yes
Group Chat database
Group Chat Compliance Server
Yes
Compliance
Group Chat Compliance back-end
server
Yes
Compliance database
Director
No
Audio/Video Conferencing Server
No
Federation, Public IM
Connectivity
Unsupported features
Enterprise Voice,
audio/video
Role
Supported
Application Sharing Conferencing
Server
No
Web Conferencing Server
No
Telephony Conferencing Server
No
Archiving Server
No(1)
Monitoring
No(2)
Web Conferencing Edge Server
No
A/V Edge Server
No
Mediation Server
No
Outside Voice Control Service
No
Conferencing Attendant Service
No
Response Group Service
No
Conferencing Announcement
Service
No
Update Server
No
Communicator Web Access
No
Supported features
Unsupported features
Client
Tested and
Supported
Yes
Office Communicator
2007 R2
Office Communicator
2007 R2 Group Chat
Console
Office Communicator
Mobile
Live Meeting Console
Office Communicator
2007 R2 Attendant
Office Communicator
Phone Edition
Yes
No
No
No
No
Unsupported feature(s)
Enterprise Voice, PBX integration,
audio/video, Remote Call Control Autoupdate, desktop sharing, conferencing,
Response group
Workload
Tested and supported
Instant messaging
Yes
IM conferencing
Yes
Presence
Yes
Group Chat
Yes
Enterprise Voice
No
Remote Call Control
No
Peer-to-peer voice and video
No
Audio/video conferencing
No
Web conferencing
No
Communicator desktop sharing
No
Hyper-V server 1
FE1.contoso.com
192.168.0.3
FE2.contoso.com
192.168.0.4
Hyper-V server 2
POOLBE.contoso.com
192.168.0.11
FE3.contoso.com
192.168.0.5
F5-6800
192.168.0.20 (VIP)
Admin: 192.168.0.21
FE4.contoso.com
192.168.0.6
Hyper-V server 4
Ocstress1-5.contoso.com
192.168.0.101
192.168.0.102
192.168.0.103
192.168.0.104
192.168.0.105
Ocstress6-10.contoso.com
192.168.0.106
192.168.0.107
192.168.0.108
192.168.0.109
192.168.0.110
Ocstress11-15.contoso.com
192.168.0.111
192.168.0.112
192.168.0.112
192.168.0.114
192.168.1.115 (edge client)
Hyper-V server 3
AD1.contoso.com
192.168.0.1
GCCS1.contoso.com
192.168.0.7
AD2.contoso.com
192.168.0.2
GCCS2.contoso.com
192.168.0.8
GCCOMPS1.contoso.com
192.168.0.9
GCCBE.contoso.com
192.168.0.10
edge.contoso.com
192.168.0.12
External.contoso.com
192.168.1.222
http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/svvp.aspx?svvppage
=svvpwizard.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID
=0a45d921-3b48-44e4-b42b19704a2b81b0&displaylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&Fa
milyID=fdf32585-c131-4832-8e27-67e70636c1e8
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&Fa
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&Fa
milyID=f8cbddd6-7608-4bbe-9246-16e96c62bef4
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948680/en-us
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/supported-applications.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd425238(office.13).aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=af2c17c
b-207c-4c52-8811-0aca6dfadc94
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e9f86f96
-aa09-4dca-9088-f64b4f01c703
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e9f86f96
-aa09-4dca-9088-f64b4f01c703
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