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Key changes from Office Communications Server 2007
Change | Roles Impacted | Comments |
The Update Server no longer requires Windows SharePoint Services | Front End, Web Components, Reverse Proxy | A file share is used instead to store image updates which are published through a virtual directory on the Web Components server and through the Firewall via the HTTP Reverse Proxy. Integration with Microsoft Software Update Services is no longer provided. See Option 4F: Updating Communicator Clients for additional detail. |
QoE Server becomes Monitoring Server and includes CDR functionality that was in the Archiving Role | Quality of Experience Monitoring Server | See Monitoring Server for additional detail. |
Archiving Server no longer collects CDRs | Archiving Server | See Option 4E: Archiving Server for additional detail. |
Enterprise Edition Expanded Topology is no longer a preferred deployment scenario | Expanded Edition roles | Consolidated Edition should be deployed for Enterprise Edition Pools. The Expanded Edition configuration is no longer offered in the setup wizard. |
The Consolidated Edge role is now the only supported edge topology | Edge | Multiple consolidated edge servers can be deployed behind a load balancer for scale and high availability |
A publicly routable IP address is no longer needed in a site with only a single Edge Server | Edge | When multiple edge servers are deployed with a load balancer, a publicly routable IP address is still required. |
Edge Server port requirements have been changed | Edge | See Appendix A: Port Requirements for additional detail. |
