Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Resource Kit

Summary

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 provides two management interfaces out of the box. The Admin Tools MMC offers a UI based on the Microsoft Management Console that integrates with the Windows management infrastructure. The WMI layer exposed by Office Communications Server provides a scriptable interface that administrators can use to automate management tasks. This WMI interface provides more flexibility and access to additional settings that might not be exposed at the MMC interface. Office Communications Server settings are stored in three different locations. Global settings are stored in Active Directory. Pool-level settings are stored in the SQL Server database on the back-end server, and settings specific to a server are stored ...