Exchange 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 on Same Machin

Exchange 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 on Same Machin

I have an exchange 2007 server.  I would like to install Office 
communications Server 2007 onto this machine.  On past attempts, after 
installing office communications server my exchange server client access role 
gets messed up and I cannot get OCS to work at all.

Is it possible to install these on the same machine, or do i need to create 
a dedicated server for this?

thanks.

date: Mon, 5 May 2008 14:54:03 -0700 author: build18er am

Re: Exchange 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 on Same Machin

On Mon, 5 May 2008 14:54:03 -0700, build18er <build18er@nospam.nospam>
wrote:

>I have an exchange 2007 server.  I would like to install Office 
>communications Server 2007 onto this machine.  On past attempts, after 
>installing office communications server my exchange server client access role 
>gets messed up and I cannot get OCS to work at all.
>
>Is it possible to install these on the same machine, or do i need to create 
>a dedicated server for this?
>
>thanks.

IIRC you do need a different server. No doubt someone will point you
to a decent link (as I'm on the end of some ropey bandwidth) but I
wouldn't even try it as OCS does like its resources.

date: Mon, 05 May 2008 16:41:42 -0700 author: Mark Arnold [MVP]

Re: Exchange 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 on Same Ma

it is a fairly small operation (5 people)

do you think that we will still need a lot of recources?

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:

> On Mon, 5 May 2008 14:54:03 -0700, build18er <build18er@nospam.nospam>
> wrote:
> 
> >I have an exchange 2007 server.  I would like to install Office 
> >communications Server 2007 onto this machine.  On past attempts, after 
> >installing office communications server my exchange server client access role 
> >gets messed up and I cannot get OCS to work at all.
> >
> >Is it possible to install these on the same machine, or do i need to create 
> >a dedicated server for this?
> >
> >thanks.
> 
> IIRC you do need a different server. No doubt someone will point you
> to a decent link (as I'm on the end of some ropey bandwidth) but I
> wouldn't even try it as OCS does like its resources.
>

date: Mon, 5 May 2008 16:50:01 -0700 author: build18er am

Re: Exchange 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 on Same Ma

Doesn't matter how few you have, it uses a good chunk just to get
going in the morning. Kinda like me and tea. 5, 10, 50, 100 users
don't mean much, it's all the base load which is none too lenient on
the old box. Just get more kit. If you want to run it, run it
properly.

date: Mon, 05 May 2008 17:01:52 -0700 author: Mark Arnold [MVP]

Re: Exchange 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 on Same Ma

i have some extra servers at my company, the problem is that i have 16 meg 
down 1~2 Meg up. 

do you think that would suffice?

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:

> Doesn't matter how few you have, it uses a good chunk just to get
> going in the morning. Kinda like me and tea. 5, 10, 50, 100 users
> don't mean much, it's all the base load which is none too lenient on
> the old box. Just get more kit. If you want to run it, run it
> properly.
>

date: Mon, 5 May 2008 17:22:02 -0700 author: build18er am

Re: Exchange 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 on Same Ma

Hello,

Thank you for your post. 

My name is Robbin Meng, and it is my pleasure to work with you on this 
issue! 

Please allow me to confirm that my understandings are correct. As I 
understand it, the issue is:

You would like to know if you can install OCS 2007 on the same server with 
Exchange 2007 installed.

If I have misunderstood your concerns please feel free to let me know.

Since I am Exchange newsgroup technical engineer, I am not very familiar 
with OCS 2007 deployment, however, based on experience and research, I 
strongly do not recommend you to install OCS on Exchange server as the 
mediation server role from OCS 2007 cannot be on the same server because it 
uses those specific ports etc. Moreover, Exchange server 2007 is a 
sensitive server for system resource, otherwise it may possibly cause heavy 
workload or perforce issues and server no responding etc. potential 
problems. 

For more information, please check the below articles:

Download the Office Communications Server 2007 Evaluation Guide 
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/4/744b6734-561a-40a9-8d3d-67abf1c
9db06/OCS%20Evaluation%20Guide%20Launch%20FINAL.pdf 

Office Communications Server 2007 Document: Supportability Guide(Software 
Infrastructure/Hardware Requirements for installing Office Communicator 
2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F8CC9B59-225F-425D-
BD3A-E506396C6207&displaylang=en 

For your interest, I also found a similar instance:

OCS 2007 Mediation server with Exchange 2007 SP1 on a windows 2003 X64 OS 
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2881361&SiteID=17  

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to let me 
know.
 
Thank you for your time and cooperation!

Best regards,

Robbin Meng(MSFT)

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date: Fri, 09 May 2008 10:30:58 GMT author: (Robbin Meng [MSFT])