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I need to be able to use IM when out of the office

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Hello,
I read that Standard edition should do everything that Enterprise does. The difference is that it will be installed on one box.
So, I installed Standard server. The problem that I have is that my users (office users only) cannot use IM when they are out of the office. Firewall is setup correctly, I belive that DNS records are setup too. Everything I read points me to configure Edge server but I do not have it. I use Standard Server.
Can anyone help?
Thank you.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 7:12 PM
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Hi Igor,
You will need to point the incoming traffic at the Edge server. You should definitely be careful with certificates; it will cause a lot of trouble if you don't do it right.
Your edge server will need a cert that has the fqdn that user's clients are configured to use. If they are connecting to ocs.domain.com, then you need to make sure that you have a cert with that name installed on the edge's external interface (and of course the corresponding external dns entry mapping ocs.domain.com to your edge server's ip). Then you need a cert installed on the inside interface of the edge server (internalservername.domain.com) as well.
The documentation on the MS site is pretty good - there is a doc in the bunch called OCS_EdgeServerDeploy.doc that has a lot of detail on the edge setup. you can find the doc install package here:
Regards,
Matt
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 8:26 PM
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Hi Igor,
You still need an Edge Server, even with Standard Edition. Standard Edition consolidates the front-end and back-end into one box, but you still need an edge for external users.
Regards,
Matt
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 7:32 PM -
Thank you for your reply.
With Edge server, should I point all incoming traffic from the firewall to the Edge server or to the Live Communications server? There might be a confusion with the certificates. Should I use the same on both servers? I had a situation when IM gave me an error message saying that I am trying to connect to the server with wrong certificate.
Should I point IM to the Edge for internal and external users?
Thank you.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 8:06 PM -
Hi Igor,
You will need to point the incoming traffic at the Edge server. You should definitely be careful with certificates; it will cause a lot of trouble if you don't do it right.
Your edge server will need a cert that has the fqdn that user's clients are configured to use. If they are connecting to ocs.domain.com, then you need to make sure that you have a cert with that name installed on the edge's external interface (and of course the corresponding external dns entry mapping ocs.domain.com to your edge server's ip). Then you need a cert installed on the inside interface of the edge server (internalservername.domain.com) as well.
The documentation on the MS site is pretty good - there is a doc in the bunch called OCS_EdgeServerDeploy.doc that has a lot of detail on the edge setup. you can find the doc install package here:
Regards,
Matt
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 8:26 PM