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Checklist for Microsoft Communications Server deployment and component configuration

This is the phase 1 of the integration process. Depending on the Microsoft Communications Server you want to deploy, refer to the checklists below to complete the tasks associated with Phase 1:

noteNote

If Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) Enterprise Edition is in use with an OCS server pool, the certificate should be issued in the name of the pool and must have both Server Authentication and Client Authentication. If a load balancer handles the pool, then the pool name should resolve to the load balancer’s IP address. For example, if the OCS pool is called ocspool.company.com, and that is the pool that agents and OCS servers use, the DNS resolution of ocspool.company.com should be the IP address of the load balancer. Furthermore, the TLS certificate should be issued to ocspool.company.com from the correct authority with the correct company name, etc. Then, this certificate should be put on each of the OCS servers so that they pass this ocspool.company.com certificate when creating a secure socket to Application Enablement Services.

Table 1. Checklist for Live Communications Server
# Task Document
1 Set up the Active Directory
 
  • Domain controllers with Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 or Microsoft Windows 2003.

  • Global catalog servers with Windows 2000 SP4 or Windows Server 2003.

noteNote

For your Active Directory user records, you must use a standard number format that can be normalized by Address Book. AE Services strongly recommends that you use E.164 format phone numbers.

  • Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 Standard Edition Deployment Guide

  • Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 Enterprise Edition Deployment Guide

  • For more information about Global catalog servers, see Infrastructure Requirements, in Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 Active Directory Preparation.

2 Complete Active Directory preparation
  Carry out the Active Directory Preparation basic steps:
  • Prep Schema

  • Prep Forest

  • Prep Domain

  • DomainAdd to the Forest Root

  • Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 Active Directory Preparation. See Running Active Directory Preparation Basic Steps: Prep Schema, Prep Forest, Prep Domain and DomainAdd to The Forest Root.

3 Set up Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
  Set up a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
  • For more information, see Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 Certificate Configuration.

  • See also, Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 Security Guide.

4 Configure Certificates
  For the AE Services Implementation for Microsoft Live Communications Server you must configure the Live Communications Server 2005 (Enterprise or Standard Edition) server to use Mutual TLS (Transport Layer Security) and then configure a certificate.
  • See Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 Certificate Configuration, Configuring Certificates on Live Communications Servers.

  • See also, Certificate management.

5 Set up and deploy Domain Name System (DNS)
  Set up the server. See Configuring DNS, Client Access and User Settings in either of these documents:
  • Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 Standard Edition Deployment Guide

  • Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 Enterprise Edition Deployment Guide

6 Deploy Live Communications Server (either Standard or Enterprise)
 
  • Deploy Standard Edition.

    or

  • Deploy Enterprise Edition.

  • See Deploying Live Communications Server 2005 Standard Edition in the Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 Standard Edition Deployment Guide.

  • See Deploying Live Communications Server 2005 Enterprise Edition in the Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 Enterprise Edition Deployment Guide.

7 Configure Servers
  Configure either the Standard Edition Server or the Enterprise Edition Server.
  • See Configuring the Standard Edition Server in the Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 Standard Edition Deployment Guide.

  • See Configuring the Enterprise Edition Server in the Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 Enterprise Edition Deployment Guide.

8 Configure DNS
  Configure DNS.
  • See Configuring DNS, Client Access and User Settings in the Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 Standard Edition Deployment Guide.

  • See Configuring DNS, Client Access and User Settings in the Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 Enterprise Edition Deployment Guide.

9 Set up Address Book Service
  The main function of the Address Book Service is to provide Microsoft Office Communicator with a local cache of the global address list. AE Services requires that you configure Live Communications Server with the Address Book service so that Communicator users can take advantage of this capability.

Optionally, you can set up the Address Book Service to perform phone number normalization.

noteNote

If you configure the Address Book Service to normalize phone numbers, bear in mind that it does not support multinational deployments of Live Communications Server. Only one set of normalization rules can be configured per Live Communications server. If that server is supporting multiple countries, you can do the normalization rules for only one of those countries.

  • See Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 Address Book Service Planning and Deployment Guide.

The information in the checklist is based on Telephony Requirements in the Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 Telephony Planning and Deployment Guide. The above checklist applies to either of the following configurations.