Redeploy Communicator Web Access (2007 Release) for IM and Presence

 

Topic Last Modified: 2012-10-18

If your organization needs to support browser-based instant messaging (IM) and presence, you need to do the following:

  • Decommission your legacy deployment, including Communicator Web Access, and then redeploy Office Communicator Web Access (2007 release).

  • Use Topology Builder to merge and publish your topology.

  • Test the deployment by starting Communicator Web Access and trying to use the internal URL.

To decommission and redeploy Communicator Web Access

  1. When you decommission your Office Communications Server 2007 pools, also decommission Communicator Web Access. For details, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=206788.

    Important

    During decommissioning, it is important that you do not run the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Unprep step to remove Office Communications Server 2007 schema. Active Directory schema for Office Communications Server 2007 is a prerequisite for deploying Office Communicator Web Access (2007 release).

  2. Redeploy Office Communicator Web Access (2007 release). For details about deploying Office Communicator Web Access (2007 release), see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=218966.

To merge and publish the topology

  1. Log on to the computer where Topology Builder is installed as a member of the Domain Admins group and the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group.

  2. From the Standard Edition server or Front End Server, click Start, click All Programs, click Microsoft Lync Server 2010, and then click Lync Server Topology Builder.

  3. Select the option to Download topology from existing deployment, and then click OK.

  4. In Save Topology As, select the Topology Builder file you want to use, and then click Save.

  5. In the Actions pane, click Merge 2007 or 2007 R2 Topology.

  6. Click Next.

  7. In Specify Edge Setup, click Next to bypass Edge setup.

  8. In Specify Internal SIP port setting, select the default setting, and then click Next.

  9. In Summary, click Next to begin merging the topologies.

  10. In Invoke Merge, click Next.

  11. In Import Office Communications Server 2007 or 2007 R2 Topology, you can view the logs. You will see a warning because you did not enable a legacy Edge for federation. Click Finish to complete the wizard.

    Note

    In the left pane of Topology Builder, you can see the Communicator Web Access server under BackCompatSite in the Trusted application servers node.

  12. From the Actions pane, click Publish Topology, and then click Next.

  13. When the Publishing wizard completes, click Finish.