More than likely, you??™re going to have changes to make or things to add because OCS 2007
includes many new components that were not present in its predecessor, Live Communications
Server 2005 with SP1.
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 ??? Chapter 2 59
You should examine the capacity planning section of the Planning Guide. The user model
and network requirements are good topics to examine also. Network requirements will
include things such as A/V and Web conferencing bandwidth requirements. Don??™t forget to
look at your hardware, software, and operating system requirements too. The various types of
servers to be installed may have different hardware and operating system requirements.
The next phase deals with planning for external users. Depending on your confi guration??™s
needs, you may or may not need to install edge servers. Remember that edge servers allow
both internal and external users to communicate using Communicator or the Live Meeting
2007 client. Also remember that there are three basic types:
?– Access Edge Server
?– Web Conferencing Edge Server
?– A/V Edge Server
So, anytime you are dealing with external users you are going to need one of these edge
servers. The Planning Guide goes into detail about when each needs to be installed, and as
I??™ve suggested several times, you should spend considerable time during this phase becoming
familiar with the information in this document.
The seventh phase of our planning scenario deals with planning for load balancing.
Pages:
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126