Summerschool 2010 - Unified Now with Unified Communications. Presented by Joachim Farla (joachim.farla@e-office.com), UC Community Engineer

1. SESSION CODE: UNC317 Microsoft Communications Server “14”: Management Experience Joachim Farla UC Community Engineer e-office

2. CS 14 Manageability Lifecycle Datasheets Product overview SCOM 2007 R2 pack+ Monitoring Server+ Synthetic Transactions* CS 14 Planning tool+ Planning Guides+ Topology Builder* Setup (Local)* Migration tools (PowerShell)* CS 14 Control Panel* PowerShell* * new in CS 14 + significant enhancements in CS 14

3. Planning

5. Edge has no access to AD, manual config needed

6. Deployment validation occurs post-deployment

7. No way to validate planned changes before they take effect

9. All documents managed by central store (SQL database)

10. All writes (changes) happen against central store data. Eliminate “out of sync” problems.

11. Read-only copies of data are replicated to all topology nodes (including Edge).

14. Sites are made up of Pools

15. Pools host:

16. Services (such as IM, Conferencing, VoIP)

18. Demo: Planning Tool Joachim Farla

19. Deployment

20. Supported Topologies in CS 14 Optional Servers Topologies Core Servers Mediation Standard Edition Front end Back end Director Enterprise Edition Archiving Group Chat Monitoring AV Conf Edge Exchange UM SCOM

21. Reference Topologies Single Datacenter upto100,000 users This example 20,000 users, HA, 14 servers 1429 users/server

22. Administration

23. Communications Server Control Panel (CSCP): What is it? A web-based, scenario-driven management GUI Based on Silverlight 4 and PowerShell Targeted to expose most relevant PowerShell delivered features / settings GUI tool includes Easy Navigation Easy searches (Save & reuse queries) Effective policy view Voice Routing support built-in No cascading property sheets Role based access support And more… Replaces MMC-based snap-in used in previous releases

24. PowerShell Features Configuration Management Server Roles Global/Site level Devices Device updates Common Area Phones Analog Devices User Management Search for users Enable/Disable for OCS Assign OCS policies Policy Management Federation/PIC Conferencing Voice, IM/P Synthetic Transactions Test Phone Calls SIP registrations Simple Conferencing Deployment Certificates management Setup steps Topology Management Clients Client Versions management In-band settings Voice Apps Response Group Conferencing Attendant Bandwidth Management Partner Apps Trusted Connectivity Contact Objects Lifecycle management

25. Q & A

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