Enabling User Accounts for Office Communications Server
Topic Last Modified: 2009-03-06
Use the Enable Office Communications Server Users Wizard in Active Directory Users and Computers to enable users for Office Communications Server 2007 R2. Using the wizard, you can enable an individual user or multiple users at a time.
A user account is not available for management in the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 snap-in until you first enable it for Office Communications Server by using the Enable Users Wizard in Active Directory Users and Computers. After you enable a user account, you can use the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 snap-in to configure settings for the user account, disable and re-enable the account, move the account, and perform other administrative functions for the account, including deleting the account.
Note
If you delete a user account in Office Communications Server 2007 R2, the account is no longer available for use with Office Communications Server unless you use Active Directory Users and Computers to enable the account again. When you delete an account, all Office Communications Server settings for the account are lost, so you must configure the account again after enabling it in Active Directory Users and Computers.
Use the following procedure to initially enable users for Office Communications Server.
To use the Enable Users Wizard to enable one or more users
On a computer that has the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 administrative tools and Active Directory Users and Computers installed, open Active Directory Users and Computers.
In the console tree, expand the Users container or other organizational unit (OU) that contains the user accounts that you want to enable for Office Communications Server 2007 R2.
Select the users, right-click the selected users, and then click Enable users for Communications Server.
On the Welcome to the Enable Office Communications Server Users Wizard page, click Next.
On the Select Server or Pool page, in the drop-down list box, click the Standard Edition server or Enterprise pool to which you want to assign the users, and then click Next.
On the Specify Sign-in Name page, specify how the SIP URI for the user name is to be generated, by doing one of the following:
- To generate the SIP address from the user’s e-mail address, click Use user’s e-mail address. Select this option only if you have configured e-mail addresses for your users.
- To generate the SIP address from the user’s principal name, click Use user principal name (UPN).
- To generate the SIP address using the user’s full name, click Use the format: <first name>.<lastname>@, and then select the Office Communications Server domain.
- To generate the SIP address using the user’s SAM account, click Use the format: <SAMAccountName>@, and then select the Office Communications Server domain.
Click Next.
On the Enable Operation Status page, verify that each user was successfully enabled, and then do the following:
- To export account information to an XML file, click the Export button below the list that contains the accounts for which you want to export user configuration information, specify a name for the XML file, and then click Save.
- To close the wizard, click Finish.
Configure the user account or accounts that were successfully enabled. For details about how to configure user accounts, see Configuring Office Communications Server User Accounts By Using the Wizard.