OCS R2 Administration Tools

There have been a few minor changes to the Administration Tools for OCS in R2. Firstly, the original release of OCS would automatically install the associated OCS Management console snap-in on each server role, but in R2 the management tools must now be installed manually. (One caveat is that the Group Chat Server Configuration Tool is automatically installed on a Group Chat Server.)

The primary way to do this is simply run the R2 Deployment Wizard and choose the Administrative Tools task on the right hand side.

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Additionally this can be installed directly from the MSI file located at:

Setupamd64Setupadmintools.msi

But since the deployment wizard for OCS 2007 R2 only includes 64-bit components the options above will only work on 64-bit operating systems. So if you want to install the x86 version of the Administrative Tools on a 32-bit Window Server, then you’ll need to install a different package which is located in the install media at:

Supporti386AdminTools.msi