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Group Chat Deployment: 06-Sept-09
Group Chat Server
is an optional role of Office Communications Server to host the persistent chat
sessions. During persistent chat sessions offered by Group chat server, along with
all IM, files, Web links, and other data that were part of the ongoing conversation.
Group chat server
lets you create chat rooms to chat in more persistent way. With introduction of
Group Chat, OCS now offers both persistent and non persistent way of chatting.
For more information about
group chat server, visit following two previously written articles...
What is Group Chat Server
Group Chat Communication Flow
You need a separate server
to install the group chat role and this role needs a separate SQL backend server.Its
recomended to have a separate and dedicated backend database for the group chat
role, but you can still go for the OCS FE sql backend server to host the group chat
database. You should be 100% sure that it wont create any performance issue.
Group Chat has two major
roles - Chat Server and Compliance Server. These two roles cant be co-located on
the same server. This article covers the group chat server installation.
1.
Create the SQL Database.
Let’s assume the database name is “GroupChat”.
2.
Create following accounts
in Active Directory.
a)
ocschat – Lookup service account. If you change the name of this account you
need to manually mention this account’s SIP URI in GCC while login.
b)
Gcchannel – An account used for the Group Chat channel service.
c)
GCwebservice – An account used for Web Service.
d)
GCcompliance – An account used for Compliance Server.
e)
GCadmin – An account used for Group Chat Server.
3.
Make above accounts
member of RTCUniversalServerAdmins.
4.
Make your admin account
(you are using to install Group Chat server) member of
RTCUniversalServerAdmins.
5.
Enable following accounts
for Office Communications Server 2007 R2.
Ocschat, GCwebservice,
GCcompliance, GCadmin, Gcchannel
6.
Make following accounts
db_owner of “GroupChat” database.
Ocschat, GCwebservice,
GCcompliance, GCadmin, Gcchannel
7.
Create a file share
for compliance and web services. Let’s assume that the share name is \\ucr2fe\GCfiles.
8.
Give “Everyone” full
control on above folder.
9.
Get a certificate for
the group chat server. Subject name of the certificate should be Group Chat server
FQDN and EKU of certificate must have “server authentication” and “client authentication”.
10.
Install the group chat server role as follows…
11.
Install the Group Chat administration tool.
Group Chat Management
Tools
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There are two Group
Chat management tools to play around with it.
Administration Tool
Start à
All Programs
à Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2
à
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Group Chat Administration Tool
And
Config Tool,
Start à
Administrative Tools
à Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Group
Chat Server
How to login in Group Chat Administration Tool?
Start the Admin tool…
Start
à All Programs
à Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2
à Microsoft Office Communications Server
2007 R2, Group Chat Administration Tool
At the “Sign In” page,
leave the Account type as
Automatic Configuration.
Type
GCadmin@nwtraders.com in the sign-in address field.
In the
User name field, type Domain_Name\GCadmin.
Type the password in password field
and then click Sign In.
How to create a channel?
Follow the following
steps…
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