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Running Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 in a Virtualized Topology

Brief Description
This whitepaper defines the supported topologies and provides best practice recommendations for running Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and SQL Server™ 2008 in a Windows Hyper-V environment or other hypervisor technologies.

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Quick Details
File Name:OCS2007R2_with_Hyper-V.docx
Version:1.2
Date Published:11/23/2009
Language:English
Download Size:2.9 MB
Estimated Download Time: 8 min 56K

Overview

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 can be deployed onto Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, or onto any virtualization solution that is a certified partner through the Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) certified partners for the following workloads:
  • Presence
  • IM (including conferencing, remote access, federation, and Public IM Connectivity)
  • Group Chat

This whitepaper:
  • Identifies which server roles are supported in a virtualized environment
  • Provides guidance for scaling users and workloads in a virtualized environment

This document describes the results of a series of configurations that were run in a Hyper-V environment to validate that Office Communications Server on Hyper-V provides stable performance and scalability for production use.

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System Requirements

  • Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000; Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows XP

This download works with the following Office applications:
  • Word 2007
  • Word 2000, 2002, or 2003 together with the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats
  • Word Viewer 2007

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Instructions

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