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CDR or Archiving is not part of our OCS implementation. However, we are looking into setting up federation for external partner connectivity. If I implement a director can I then enable archiving or CDR on the director for auditing of federated traffic ? We currently only have IM and conferencing enable and have no immediate plans for A/V or voice and this will apply to federated traffic also. No plans for R2 in the near future either.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 8:28 PM

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The Director role only 'directs' traffic to a specific Front-End Server/Pool, where the Archiving service will then pick up messages (from the FE's MSMQ services). If you enable archiving of Federation communications then it will work via the FE server regardless of the use of a Director. The SQL database used by a director does not contains any users.
Jeff Schertz, PointBridge | MVP | MCITP: Enterprise Messaging | MCTS: OCS
- Proposed as answer by Werner Helbig Monday, August 3, 2009 1:05 PM
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 9:47 PM

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Hi:

Agree with Jeff for your first question.

Some other information for your other topic:

Director server does not route for outbound traffic flow.

Directors are used to authenticate enterprise users connecting from outside the corporate firewall and to route these users to their home pools. You can learn more about the director server refer to below links:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd572630(office.13).aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd425338(office.13).aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/ucedsg/archive/2009/05/18/do-i-need-a-director-with-ocs-r2.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/dougl/archive/2009/04/26/the-ocs-director-component.aspx

Hope this helpful!

Regards!
- Proposed as answer by Werner Helbig Monday, August 3, 2009 1:05 PM
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The Director role only 'directs' traffic to a specific Front-End Server/Pool, where the Archiving service will then pick up messages (from the FE's MSMQ services). If you enable archiving of Federation communications then it will work via the FE server regardless of the use of a Director. The SQL database used by a director does not contains any users.
Jeff Schertz, PointBridge | MVP | MCITP: Enterprise Messaging | MCTS: OCS
- Proposed as answer by Werner Helbig Monday, August 3, 2009 1:05 PM
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Thank you for clarifying that Jeff. For political reasons I can’t enable archiving or CDR on our FE servers but I’m sure that after Federation is implemented there will be questions about usage. I was just looking for an easy way to gather some metrics.

On a slightly related topic – does the director also rout the outbound traffic from the FE to the Edge server ?

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 1:49 PM
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Hi:

Agree with Jeff for your first question.

Some other information for your other topic:

Director server does not route for outbound traffic flow.

Directors are used to authenticate enterprise users connecting from outside the corporate firewall and to route these users to their home pools. You can learn more about the director server refer to below links:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd572630(office.13).aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd425338(office.13).aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/ucedsg/archive/2009/05/18/do-i-need-a-director-with-ocs-r2.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/dougl/archive/2009/04/26/the-ocs-director-component.aspx

Hope this helpful!

Regards!
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Thank you both for your replies.

Monday, August 3, 2009 4:08 PM

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