Enterprise Voice Deployment Process
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Topic Last Modified: 2015-03-09
The following tables describe the deployment steps for each Enterprise Voice implementation option.
Table 1. Enterprise Voice Deployment Process with PBX Coexistence
Deployment steps | Permissions | Documentation |
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1. Deploy Office Communications Server, including a Mediation Server that connects to the PBX. |
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Deploying Office Communications Server 2007 R2 documentation Step 5. Deploy a Mediation Server in Deploying Enterprise Voice in the Deployment documentation |
2. Deploy Office Communicator 2007 and any other voice clients. |
Administrator on the computer on which Office Communicator is being installed. |
Deploying Communicator in the Client Planning and Deployment documentation |
3. Enable users for IM and presence. |
RTCUniversalUserAdmins group. |
Create and Enable Users in Deploying Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise Edition or in the Deploying Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Standard Edition in the Deployment documentation |
4. Configure Office Communications Server for Enterprise Voice. |
RTCUniversalServerAdmins group. |
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise Voice Deployment Guide in the Deployment documentation |
5. Configure PBX to fork calls to Office Communications Server. |
RTCUniversalServerAdmins (to get information from AD DS to convert an extension into the correct telephone URI). |
See your PBX manufacturer’s documentation. |
6. Deploy media gateways (if required). |
Media gateways are external systems with their own authentication and authorization schemes. If the media gateway requires creation of trusted service entries, you must be at least a member of the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group. |
Step 5. Deploy a Mediation Server in the Deploying Enterprise Voice documentation See your media gateway manufacturer’s documentation. |
7. Deploy RCC gateway (if required). |
RCC gateways are external systems with their own authentication and authorization schemes. You must be at least a member of the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group to create the required trusted service entries. |
See your RCC gateway manufacturer’s documentation. |
8. Enable users for Enterprise Voice and PBX integration. |
RTCUniversalUserAdmins group. |
Step 8. Enable Users for Enterprise Voice in the Deploying Enterprise Voice documentation Step 9. Enable Users for PBX Integration (Optional) in the Deploying Enterprise Voice documentation |
Table 2. Stand-Alone Enterprise Voice Deployment Process: Greenfield
Deployment steps | Permissions | Documentation |
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1. Deploy Office Communications Server. |
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Deploying Office Communications Server 2007 R2 documentation |
2. Deploy Office Communicator 2007 and any other voice clients. |
Administrator on the computer on which Office Communicator is being installed. |
Deploying Communicator in the Client Planning and Deployment documentation |
3. Configure Office Communications Server for Enterprise Voice. |
RTCUniversalUserAdmins group. |
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise Voice Deployment Guide in the Deployment documentation |
4. Deploy Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging and configure to integrate with Office Communications Server. |
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Step 1. Configure Unified Messaging on Microsoft Exchange to Work with Office Communications Server in the Deploying Enterprise Voice documentation |
5. Deploy media gateways. |
Media gateways are external systems with their own authentication and authorization schemes. If the media gateway requires creation of trusted service entries, you must be at least a member of the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group. |
Step 5. Deploy a Mediation Server in the Deploying Enterprise Voice documentation See your media gateway manufacturer’s documentation. |
6. Enable users for Enterprise Voice. |
RTCUniversalUserAdmins group. |
Step 8. Enable Users for Enterprise Voice in the Deploying Enterprise Voice documentation |
Table 3. Stand-Alone Enterprise Voice Deployment Process: Departmental
Deployment steps | Permissions | Documentation |
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1. Deploy Office Communications Server. |
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Deploying Office Communications Server 2007 R2 documentation |
2. Deploy Office Communicator 2007 and any other voice clients. |
Administrator on the computer on which Office Communicator is being installed. |
Deploying Communicator in the Client Planning and Deployment documentation |
3. Configure Office Communications Server for Enterprise Voice. |
RTCUniversalUserAdmins group. |
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise Voice Deployment Guide in the Deployment documentation |
4. Enable users for IM and presence. |
RTCUniversalServerAdmins group. |
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5. Deploy Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging and configure to integrate with Office Communications Server. |
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Step 1. Configure Unified Messaging on Microsoft Exchange to Work with Office Communications Server in the Deploying Enterprise Voice documentation |
6. Deploy media gateways. |
Media gateways are external systems with their own authentication and authorization schemes. If the media gateway requires creation of trusted service entries, you must be at least a member of the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group. |
Step 5. Deploy a Mediation Server in the Deploying Enterprise Voice documentation See your media gateway manufacturer’s documentation. |
7. Enable one or more subsets of users for Enterprise Voice. |
RTCUniversalUserAdmins group. |
Step 8. Enable Users for Enterprise Voice in the Deploying Enterprise Voice documentation |
8. Migrate users to Enterprise Voice in one or more phases. |
RTCUniversalUserAdmins group. Note Membership in RTCUniversalServerAdmins may be required if the migration requires changing server configuration. |
Migration from Office Communications Server 2007 and Migration from Live Communications Server 2005 in the Migration documentation |
Table 4. Stand-Alone Enterprise Voice Deployment Process: PBX Integration to Stand-Alone Option
Deployment steps | Permissions | Documentation |
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1. Deploy media gateways. |
Media gateways are external systems their own authentication and authorization schemes. If the media gateway requires creation of trusted service entries, you must be at least a member of the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group. |
Step 5. Deploy a Mediation Server in Deploying Enterprise Voice in the Deployment documentation See your media gateway manufacturer’s documentation. |
2. Reassign DID numbers (if any) to media gateways. |
PBX permissions. |
See your media gateway manufacturer’s documentation. |
3. Deploy and configure Exchange Unified Messaging. This can be done before, after, or concurrently with deployment of media gateways. |
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Step 1. Configure Unified Messaging on Microsoft Exchange to Work with Office Communications Server in the Deploying Enterprise Voice documentation |
4. If necessary, rename location profiles to the FQDN of their corresponding Exchange Unified Messaging dial plans. |
RTCUniversalServerAdmins group. |
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5. Replace PBX desktop phones with Office Communicator and/or Communicator Phone Edition or other SIP clients. |
None. |
Note
The migration path in table 4 is used only if PBX integration is used as a stepping stone to a stand-alone Office Communications Server deployment.