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We're looking to make our OCS R2 infrastructure redundant and highly available. Currently, it consists of the following:
- 1 Edge Server R2
- 1 Front-End Standard Server R2
- 1 CWA R2
- 1 Chat Server R2

My goal is to deploy 2 load-balanced Enterprise Servers.
Questions: 1) Can I upgrade my existing Front-End Standard Server to Enterprise? 2) What role does the director play? Is it required for this solution?

Friday, August 28, 2009 5:23 PM

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You actually have to setup the new servers then migrate the users to the new pool, As far as the director it is not required but it will help for security purposes for connections from the outside. and it will also make it easier to determine which server you point your SRV records to, but it is not required.

There are other reasons to use a director. but I don't have the doc in front of me.
Mitch Roberson |MCITP:Enterprise Server Admin, Messaging |MCTS:OCS with Voice Achievement |MCT
- Marked as answer by Gavin-ZhangModerator Friday, September 11, 2009 9:07 AM
Saturday, August 29, 2009 2:19 AM
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hi
About the director you can refer to below link:
http://blogs.technet.com/dougl/archive/2009/04/26/the-ocs-director-component.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/ucedsg/archive/2009/05/18/do-i-need-a-director-with-ocs-r2.aspx

Regards!
- Marked as answer by Gavin-ZhangModerator Friday, September 11, 2009 9:17 AM
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You actually have to setup the new servers then migrate the users to the new pool, As far as the director it is not required but it will help for security purposes for connections from the outside. and it will also make it easier to determine which server you point your SRV records to, but it is not required.

There are other reasons to use a director. but I don't have the doc in front of me.
Mitch Roberson |MCITP:Enterprise Server Admin, Messaging |MCTS:OCS with Voice Achievement |MCT
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About the director you can refer to below link:
http://blogs.technet.com/dougl/archive/2009/04/26/the-ocs-director-component.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/ucedsg/archive/2009/05/18/do-i-need-a-director-with-ocs-r2.aspx

Regards!
- Marked as answer by Gavin-ZhangModerator Friday, September 11, 2009 9:17 AM
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