Setting up a quick OCS 2007 test environment

Perhaps virtualised for testing?

Physical HW is obviously better

Two W2k3 or W2k8 boxes

Configure TCPIP appropriately on the two machines so they can chat using static IPs

Name machines appropriately

Promote one to a DC

DC is a DNS server

Install CA services on the CA

On OCS server install OCS 2007 Standard Edition, this will give a good test bed on minimum machines (assuming this is for repro/testing only!)

Install IIS as per prompt in OCS wizard

Install AD tools as per prompt in OCS wizard

This will install SQL and all the necessary components

When installed and the services are strarted the Monitoring service may not start, if not you may need to install the Message Queuing Feature

Start the relevant services

Install Admin tools as per OCS setup Wizard

Create a couple of users, Enable them for OCS

Use the Validation wizard to do some testing, they should be able to sign in

Install OCS client

Set to Manual Config and point to the OCS server (FQDN) and set to TLS

For Auto sign in and other DNS records necessary watch this nice little video... https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ocs/dd221358.aspx

Setup your DNS entries and you should now be able to autosign in!