Microsoft Communications Server “14”: Management Experience

Joachim FarlaUC Community Engineere-office

SESSION CODE: UNC317

CS 14 Manageability Lifecycle

Pre-Planning

Planning

DeploymentAdministration

Monitoring

DatasheetsProduct overview

CS 14 Planning tool+Planning Guides+

Topology Builder*Setup (Local)*Migration tools (PowerShell)*

CS 14 Control Panel*PowerShell*

SCOM 2007 R2 pack+Monitoring Server+Synthetic Transactions*

* new in CS 14+ significant enhancements in CS 14

PlanningPre-Planning

Planning

DeploymentAdministration

Monitoring

Top customer issues before CS 14: Configuration spread across AD, SQL, local store Edge has no access to AD, manual config needed Deployment validation occurs post-deployment No way to validate planned changes before they take effect Out of sync – policies, configuration.

With Central Management in CS 14: Schematized definition (Xml docs) of deployment topology, configuration of CS components

& Policies. All documents managed by central store (SQL database) All writes (changes) happen against central store data. Eliminate “out of sync” problems. Read-only copies of data are replicated to all topology nodes (including Edge). Validation happens before changes are “published”. Eliminate misconfiguration.

Central Management

Central Management Store (CMS)

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4

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CMS CS 14 server1

1. Administrator makes changes through CS PowerShell/UI Interfaces.2. Master Replicator generates a snapshot of the new configuration.3. File Transfer Agent replicates the snapshot to all computers in the deployment .4. Local Replicator Agent notified of new snapshot available. Loads it into the database

and reports back status.5. Status is transferred back to master and replication status is updated.

Configuration Change - Workflow

Pools

Sites

Global Fabrikam

Redmond

Red-1 Red-2

New Orleans

NewOr-1

Topology Model• Global CS Deployment: is a collection of Sites

• Sites are made up of Pools• Pools host:

o Services (such as IM, Conferencing, VoIP)o Users

Prescriptive guidance for deploying CS 14 :Workloads

Scenarios/desired UC modalities.Datacenter characteristics.

Users Usage model built-inVoice users External/Internal users

TopologyServers, Hardware Profiles, Ports to be opened

Export to:Visio, Excel, Topology Builder tool

CS 14 Planning Tool

Demo: Planning ToolJoachim Farla

DeploymentPre-Planning

Planning

Deployment Administration

Monitoring

Supported Topologies in CS 14

Standard Edition

Enterprise Edition

Front end

Back end

Director

Archiving

Monitoring

AV Conf

Edge

Mediation

Group Chat

Optional ServersTopologies Core Servers

Exchange UM

SCOM

CA / DNScontoso.com

Exchange UM Server

HTTP reverse proxy

DC

Central Site

Parent Domain

Child Domain

retail.contoso.com

Front End poolDirector pool

Edge Server pool

File share

PSTN Gateway

PSTN

DNS Load Balancing

DNS Load Balancing

Back End Servers

A/V Conferencing pool

Monitoring pool

Reference Topologies

Single DC Enterprise Edition, Single Data Center Branch through Edge

DC with Branches Enterprise Edition, Single Data Center Two branches, one SBA, one PSTN Interconnect

Single Datacenter

upto 100,000 users

This example20,000 users, HA, 14 servers

1429 users/server

Branch 1

Branch 2

Survivable Branch

Appliance

PSTN Gateway

WAN

Administration Pre-Planning

Planning

Deployment Administration

Monitoring

Communications Server Control Panel (CSCP): What is it?

A web-based, scenario-driven management GUIBased on Silverlight 4 and PowerShellTargeted to expose most relevant PowerShell delivered features / settingsGUI tool includes

Easy NavigationEasy searches (Save & reuse queries)Effective policy viewVoice Routing support built-in No cascading property sheetsRole based access supportAnd more…

Replaces MMC-based snap-in used in previous releases

PowerShell FeaturesUser Management

Search for usersEnable/Disable for OCS

Assign OCS policies

Configuration ManagementServer Roles

Global/Site level

DevicesDevice updates

Common Area PhonesAnalog Devices

Policy ManagementFederation/PICConferencing

Voice, IM/P

Synthetic TransactionsTest Phone CallsSIP registrations

Simple Conferencing

DeploymentCertificates management

Setup stepsTopology Management

Voice AppsResponse Group

Conferencing AttendantBandwidth Management

Partner AppsTrusted Connectivity

Contact ObjectsLifecycle management

ClientsClient Versions management

In-band settings

Q & A

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