Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Collocation Server Roles Supported

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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Collocation Server Roles Supported

IT Administrators like to consolidate as many server roles & applications as they can on a single server, while maintaining reliability and compatibility. Of course, Office Communications Server 2007 has many components (Edge Server, Media Server, Director, Front-End Server, Web Conferencing Server, etc.), some of which must be installed on separate servers and cannot be collocated on the same computer. Consolidating as many server roles as possible not only reduces hardware costs, but makes administration and maintenance easier as well, thus lowering TCO. Microsoft has released a useful chart identifying which components that explicitly cannot be collocated and those that can. Any combination that is not identified has not been tested and is not supported.

Via Microsoft:

The following table identifies the Office Communications Server roles that can and cannot be collocated. In addition to the server roles identified in the table, the following collocation scenarios are explicitly not supported for Office Communications Server 2007 R2:
  • Any server role on an Active Directory domain controller
  • Exchange UM and Office Communications Server
Server Role Collocation
This server role/configuration Can collocate with this server role Cannot collocate with this server role

Standard Edition configuration

  • Communicator Web Access
  • Archiving Server
    Note:
    This topology is not recommended.
  • Monitoring Server
  • Director
  • Edge Server
  • Mediation Server
  • Group Chat Server

Enterprise Edition consolidated configuration

  • Communicator Web Access
  • Director
  • Edge Server
  • Mediation Server
  • Archiving Server
  • Monitoring Server
  • Group Chat Server

Enterprise Edition expanded configuration, Front-End Server

  • Web Conferencing Server
  • Application Sharing Conferencing Server
  • Communicator Web Access
  • Web components
  • Director
  • Edge Server
  • Mediation Server
  • Archiving Server
  • Monitoring Server
  • Group Chat Server

Enterprise Edition expanded configuration, Web Conferencing Server

  • Front-End Server
  • Application Sharing Conferencing Server
  • A/V Conferencing Server
  • Web components
  • Communicator Web Access
  • Director
  • Edge Server
  • Mediation Server
  • Archiving Server
  • Monitoring Server
  • Group Chat Server

Enterprise Edition expanded configuration, Application Sharing Conferencing Server

  • Front-End Server
  • Web Conferencing Server
  • A/V Conferencing Server
  • Web components
  • Communicator Web Access
  • Director
  • Edge Server
  • Mediation Server
  • Archiving Server
  • Monitoring Server
  • Group Chat Server

Enterprise Edition expanded configuration, A/V Conferencing Server

  • Web Conferencing Server
  • Application Sharing Conferencing Server
  • Web components
  • Communicator Web Access
  • Director
  • Edge Server
  • Mediation Server
  • Archiving Server
  • Monitoring Server
  • Group Chat Server

Web components

  • Web Conferencing Server
  • Application Sharing Conferencing Server
  • A/V Conferencing Server
  • Communicator Web Access
  • Archiving Server
  • Monitoring Server
  • Front-End Server
  • Director
  • Edge Server
  • Mediation Server
  • Group Chat Server

Director

  • Communicator Web Access
  • Any other server role

Communicator Web Access

  • Front-End Server
  • Web Conferencing Server
  • Application Sharing Conferencing Server
  • A/V Conferencing Server
  • Web components
  • Director
  • Archiving Server
  • Monitoring Server
  • Edge Server
  • Mediation Server
  • Group Chat Server

Edge Server

Never collocated

Mediation Server

Never collocated

Archiving Server

  • Web components
  • Communicator Web Access
  • Monitoring Server
  • Front-End Server
  • Web Conferencing Server
  • Application Sharing Conferencing Server
  • A/V Conferencing Server
  • Director
  • Edge Server
  • Mediation Server
  • Group Chat Server

Monitoring Server

  • Web components
  • Communicator Web Access
  • Archiving Server
  • Front-End Server
  • Web Conferencing Server
  • Application Sharing Conferencing Server
  • A/V Conferencing Server
  • Director
  • Edge Server
  • Mediation Server
  • Group Chat Server

Group Chat Server

Never collocated



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