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Preapring infrastructure for OCS 2007 R2 Group Chat Server |
Preparing OCS 2007 R2 infra for Group chat includes
following steps.
Create the Group Chat Database
Unlike OCS
2007 Front End server, Group chat server installation
wizard doesn’t create databases. You need to manually
create the databases for Group Chat server. You can
create the database on the same server which hosts OCS
2007 R2 enterprise pool databases. But you should ensure
that it doesn't create performance problem. Once you
have identified which SQL server will host the Group
Chat server database, login to the server and follow the
following steps to create the database.
a. Open
SQL Server Management Studio.
b. In
the Server name
drop-down menu, select
SQL Server Name and then click
Connect.
c.
Right-click
Databases,
and then click New
Database.
d. In
the New Database wizard, in the
Database name
field, type Database Name (For example, OCSGCDB.
e.
Leave the
rest of the defaults and then click
OK.
Create & configure Group Chat Service Accounts
Unlike OCS 2007 other services, Group Chat installation
wizard doesn't create the service accounts. You need to
create service accounts for Group Chat server.
You need to create service accounts for Channel Server,
Lookup Server, Web Service, Compliance Server and Group
Chat Server.
a.
Open Active
Directory users and computers.
b.
Expand
domain and then
click the Users
container (or the container you want to keep service
accounts in).
c.
Right-click
Users,
click New
and then click User.
d.
In the
First name
and User logon name
fields, type
GCchannel, this account will be used for
the Channel Server, and then click
Next.
e.
In the
Password and
Confirm password
fields, type the password.
f.
Uncheck
User must change
password at next logon, check
Password never expires
and then click Next.
g.
On the New
Object-User page, click
Finish.
h.
Repeat
steps c
through g
to create the following accounts:
i.
OCSchat – This account is used for Lookup Server
and “ocschat” is required for Automatic Login.
ii.
GCwebservice
– this account is used for Web Service.
iii.
GCcompliance
– this account is used for Compliance Server.
iv.
GCadmin –
This account is used for Group Chat Server.
i.
Find
RTCUniversalServerAdmins
group and then click
Properties.
j.
Click the
Members
tab, and add following users.
GCadmin, GCchannel,
GCcompliance, GCwebservice, OCSchat
k.
On the Global chat server, add following users in local
administrators group.
GCadmin, GCchannel,
GCcompliance, GCwebservice, OCSchat
Enable the service accounts for Office Communications
Server 2007 R2
a.
On
OCS 2007 R2 server,
switch to Active Directory Users and Computers, in the
Users
container, hold the CTRL key down and click each of the
five new user accounts.
b.
Right-click
and click Enable
users for Communications Server.
c.
On the
Welcome page, click
Next.
d.
On the
Select a Pool page, verify that right pool is selected
in the drop-down list, and then click
Next.
e.
On the
Specify Sign-in Name page, select
Use user principal name
(UPN), and then click
Next.
f.
On the
Ready to Enable Users page, click
Next.
g.
On the
Enable Operation Status page, click
Finish.
Add the Group Chat Service accounts to SQL
a.
Open SQL
Server Management Studio on the SQL Server (Where you
have created the group chat database).
b.
In the
console tree, expand
Security, right-click
Logins, and
then click New Login.
c.
In the
Login-New dialog box, click
Search.
d. On
the Select User or Group search window, type
Domain_Name\GCadmin,
click
Check Names and then click
OK.
e.
In the
Default database drop-down menu, click
OCSgcdb (Or whatever
database you have created for Group Chat).
f.
In the
upper-left pane, click
User Mapping.
g.
Under Users
mapped to this login, check the box next to
OCSgcdb.
h. Under
Database role membership for: OCSgcdb, check the box
next to db_owner
and then click OK.
i. Repeat
steps b
through h
for Domain_Name\ocschat,
Domain_Name\GCcompliance,
Domain_Name\GCwebservice
and Domain_Name\GCchannel.
Create a file share for Compliance and Web Services.
a.
On the
Group Chat Server, Navigate to the drive you want to
create shares in.
b.
Create a
New Folder
with a name of
OCSGCfiles.
c.
Right-click on
OCSGCfiles and click
Sharing and Security.
d.
On the
OCSGCfiles Properties window, on the
Sharing tab,
select Share this
folder and click
Permissions.
e.
Give
Everyone
permissions of Full
Control and click
OK twice.
Note: You can create this shared folder on any machine
in the domain. I'd still recommend to create it on the
Group Chat Server.
