Supported Server Role Collocation

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.

 

Topic Last Modified: 2015-03-09

This section identifies the Office Communications Server components that can be collocated on the same computer and the components that explicitly cannot be collocated. Any combination that is not identified has not been tested and is not supported.

The following table identifies the Office Communications Server roles and components that can and cannot be collocated. In addition to the server roles identified in the table, the following collocation scenarios are explicitly not supported for Office Communications Server 2007 R2:

• Any server role on an Active Directory domain controller

• Exchange UM and Office Communications Server

Important

Note that the following table identifies supported, not necessarily recommended, collocations.

Table 1. Server Role Collocation

This server role/configuration	Can collocate with this server role/component	Cannot collocate with this server role/component
Standard Edition configuration	Archiving Server (not recommended) Monitoring Server	Director Communicator Web Access Edge Server Mediation Server Group Chat Server or Compliance Server
Enterprise Edition consolidated configuration	None	Never collocated
Back-End Database	Archiving database (in a shared SQL Server instance)* Monitoring database (in a shared SQL Server instance)* Group Chat database (in a shared SQL Server instance)* Compliance database (for Group Chat) (in a shared SQL Server instance)* Director database (only on a shared server; must run in a dedicated SQL Server instance)	Back-End Database for a different pool Director database in a shared SQL Server instance Any other Office Communications Server role
Enterprise Edition expanded configuration, Front End Server	None	Never collocated
Enterprise Edition expanded configuration, Web Conferencing Server	None	Never collocated
Enterprise Edition expanded configuration, Application Sharing Server	None	Never collocated
Enterprise Edition expanded configuration, A/V Conferencing Server	None	Never collocated
Enterprise Edition expanded configuration, Web components	Archiving Server Monitoring Server	Front End Server Web Conferencing Server Application Sharing Server A/V Conferencing Server Director Communicator Web Access Edge Server Mediation Server Group Chat Server or Compliance Server
Director	None	Never collocated
Communicator Web Access	None	Never collocated
Edge Server	None	Never collocated
Mediation Server	None	Never collocated
Archiving Server	Web components Monitoring Server Standard Edition server (not recommended)	Front End Server Web Conferencing Server Application Sharing Server A/V Conferencing Server Director Communicator Web Access Edge Server Mediation Server Group Chat Server or Compliance Server
Monitoring Server	Web components Archiving Server Standard Edition server	Front End Server Web Conferencing Server Application Sharing Server A/V Conferencing Server Director Communicator Web Access Edge Server Mediation Server Group Chat Server or Compliance Server
Group Chat Server	None	Never collocated
Compliance Server (for Group Chat)	None	Never collocated

* Published performance test results assume that the Back-End Database runs in a dedicated SQL Server instance.