Front-end Server installation
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In the first three parts of our article series, I talked about what the OCS is, what we can do with OCS, what are the components of OCS infrastructure. I finished the creation of Enterprise Pool and installation of Archiving Server. In this part, I will install the Front-end OCS Server, add it to the Enterprise Pool and configure few settings.
Before getting into the OCS installation process, I have to install some prerequisites. These are Windows Media Format Runtime, IIS role and Message Queuing feature. First I want to install Windows Media Format Runtime. For this purpose, I open a command prompt on Front-end server (mstipocsfe01.mstip.com) and run the following command:
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Enterprise Pool and Archive Server
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In the first two parts of our article series, I talked about what the OCS is, what we can do with OCS, what are the components of OCS infrastructure. I also started to build my OCS environment with SQL server installation and shared folders creation. In this part, I will create Enterprise Pool for my OCS infrastructure and install the Archive Server.
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Network topology and Active Directory Preparation
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In the first part, I talked about what the OCS is, what we can do with OCS and what are the components of OCS infrastructure. I also tried to explain what the Planning Tool is (which can be used before OCS implementation in production environment). In this part, I will start to build an OCS infrastructure on an example scenario. So lets begin :)
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What is OCS and Planning Tool?
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It has been a long time and I am back with another article series :). This time I am going to talk about the Office Communications Server R2 (OCS) installation and configuration. This first part is about what the OCS is, what we can do with OCS and what are the components of OCS infrastructure. I am going to talk about the planning tool also. It is a handy tool that you can use before OCS implementation in your environment.
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