Deactivating Servers (Command Line)

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 will reach end of support on January 9, 2018. To stay supported, you will need to upgrade. For more information, see Resources to help you upgrade your Office 2007 servers and clients.

All server-related contexts come with a Deactivate action. To deactivate a server, simply call LCSCmd followed by the context, with an action of Deactivate.

LCSCmd.exe /Archive[:<Server FQDN>] /Action:Deactivate

The one case that's different is the Server context. For the Server context you must also specify the role of the server you're deactivating.

LCSCmd.exe /Server[:<Server FQDN>] /Role:<name> /Action:Deactivate [/Force]

Such as:

LCSCmd.exe /Server /Role:SE /Action:Deactivate /Force

For Edge Servers, the /Components parameter is required and you must specify at least one Edge Server component.

LCSCmd.exe /Server[:<Server FQDN>] /Role:AP /Components:{AP,DP,MR} /Action:Deactivate [/Force]

Such as:

LCSCmd.exe /Server /Role:AP /Components:AP,DP /Action:Deactivate 

Where:

Parameter	Description
/Server	Executes the action for the specified server FQDN. /server - deactivates the local server. /server:<remoteComputerFQDN> - deactivates the role on the remote computer.
/Role	Specifies the role of the server.
/Components	Specifies the component roles available on an Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Edge Server. Components are separated by commas. You must specify at least one Edge Server role, or activation will fail. Valid values are: AP to deactivate Access Edge Server DP to deactivate Web Conferencing Edge Server MR to deactivate A/V Edge Server
/Action	Takes a string that specifies the action name. Valid action names include CheckLCServerState, Activate, Deactivate, and Diag.
/Password	Specifies the service account password for the server.
/RefDomain	Specifies the reference domain FQDN.
/Global	Specifies the global setting location.
/GroupDomain	Specifies the FQDN of the domain where Office Communications Server universal groups are located.
/Force	Specifies whether to force task execution.
/L	Specifies the log file path. If not specified, %TEMP%\<ActionName>[<Date>][<Time>].html is used. To disable logging, use a dash character (-) as the log file name.
/XML	Specifies whether the log file to be generated should be in XML format instead of HTML.
/?	Shows Help on usage.

Note

The /RefDomain switch must be used to specify which domain the Active Directory object is located in when deactivating a server, if the respective computer is unavailable, such as:
LCSCmd.exe /Server:<FQDN> /Action:Deactivate /Role:SE /Refdomain:<FQDN>
/RefDomain is a hint to LCSCmd.exe to look under Office Communications Server service connection objects for the existing computers Active Directory object. LCSCmd.exe will not be able to fully deactivate a server if the computer is not accessible through such events as network cuts, shut-downs, renaming, and recycling.