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Office Communications Server 2007 Enterprise installation?

Hi All,

I have beent tasked with the creation of an Office Communications Server 2007 installation. My resources for this projects are extermely and I mean extremely limited. I have a VM host server on which I have created a VM with 4GB Ram, and 200GB HDD.

I installed Windows Server 2003 64bit, ran dcpromo, DNS to setup an Active Directory instance and installed SQL (I know this is not recommended on a Domain Controller). All my other servers physical or VM's are all built on a WORKGROUP. I know this seems ridiculous, but this is what I have to go with.

I know nothing about Office Communicator and am wondering if it is possible to actually create this scenario on a single box or if I am going to require back end servers etc.

All and any suggestions are most welcome at this point. Thanks.

Kaffiend

Without an established Active Directory, you will lose out on the benefits of OCS - no integration with Exchange/Outlook. All you would end up with is a fancy chat client. For that, you want to make all your users have to log in to a domain (if they were in a workgroup before, they may not even have had to log in at all) with a username and password? And, you would have to join all PCs to the domain. Move existing profiles over to the AD domain profile. Yadda yadda yadda.

Are you really sure you want to do this?

If you want chat/IM, there are solutions out there that do not require Active Directory.

Busbar

you don't have to join the PCs to the domain, yet you will have the benefit of all of the features of the OCS, all what you have to do is install a CA, install the CA certificate on all of the PCs and create a username and password for each user.

you will be able to use all of the features like IM/conf...etc but you will need at least 3 boxes other than the DC to complete this scenario

carloc

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Thanks for your thoughts on this installation. The real purpose is to construct this so that it can be used for an application demo. So including all the users and creating the active directory users would be need to encompass the whole enterprise.

With some work I was able to almost complete the installation. I have a SQL db on a seperate server.

How ever I am having problems installing the certificate. I have a wildcard ssl certificate when I try and install this I see the error message.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: OCS MCU Infrastructure
Event Category: (1022)
Event ID: 61022
Date: 12/7/2009
Time: 8:42:53 PM
User: N/A
Computer: ILINK-OCS
Description:
Remote principal name is not configured in trusted server list.

The subject name *.ilink-systems.com of the certificate assigned to process DataMCUSvc(4956) was not found in the trusted server list.
Certificate serial number: SERIALNUMBER=07969287, CN=Go Daddy Secure Certification Authority, OU=http://certificates.godaddy.com/repository, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US
Certificate issuer name: 0405FC0AFEEE78.
Cause: Incorrect setup of the pool. Should never happen.
Resolution:
Verify that the Subject Name of the certificate presented by the remote peer is configured in the trusted server list.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

If anyone has seen this before help is required.

Thanks

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carloc

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This was resolved, I purchased a UCC certificate from GoDaddy and installed this without any problems. OCS has been installed and is working fine at present. Thanks for all your suggestions though.

carloc

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Thanks for your suggestions. managed to complete this project with your suggestion pointing me in the right direction.