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Managing the OCS 2007 R2 Edge Server
By Alex Lewis on Tue, 02/24/09 - 1:49pm.If you've loaded up OCS 2007 R2 Edge services on Server 2008 you might have noticed something strange. What happened the management tools?!
First, OCS 2007 R2 no longer installs the management tools by default for any server role. You can run the admintools.msi or choose to install them from the first screen of the OCS setup menu. "Administrative Tools" is in the righthand column. Even then, you need to use Computer Management for the Edge Server role.
Most people I see are installing OCS 2007 R2 on Server 2008. This complicates things a bit in that right-clicking Computer and choosing "manage" no longer brings you to the same screen. More importantly, there's no way to manage OCS Edge from there. Instead you'll need to load the compmgmt.msc console (Start->Run->compmgmt.msc). This will give you a more familar interface and one that has the OCS Edge management console under Services and Applications then Office Communications Server 2007 R2.
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This is a kind of dumb thing. I install OCS and there's not tools to mange it be default. Who thought that up? I bet all new users fall over that one.
Had there been a beta test, testers would have bugged that, and asked either for a default install, or a screen in the basic installation wizard to allow the tools to be installed.
R2 is cool, but it's been rushed out without simple stuff like this being included.
Not a rush issue
It was clearly a design choice. Maybe not one that you or I agree with, but someone, somewhere within MSFT decided this was the right thing to do.
I've actually been pleasant surprised with how polished R2 feels for a product less than a month old.
Annoying Omission
Yeah - I discovered that as well....this would be somewhat akin to creating your first DC and then having to install ADUC separately....maybe this "feature" will be fixed in wave 14 - along with the Group Chat issues
Good post!
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