Since I never had the time to document the process of the deployments I did earlier with OCS 2007 R2 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server, I took last week while I was deploying a new OCS 2007 R2 Edge server as an opportunity to do a few screenshots to show what the install looks like. Note that the following does not go into details and only shows what needs to be done with an Edge server so if you’re deploying another role, please fill in the missing gaps with the official Microsoft KB article. As per the Micorosft KB:: Step #1 Install.NET Framework 3.5.1 by using Roles wizard from Server Manager. You can do this by selecting the Windows-based application server role to make sure completeness. This is a manual step. You must have.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system before you install a version of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 that only includes.NET Framework 3.5.
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Step #2 Install the Desktop Experience Features by using Add Features wizard from Server Manager. This is required for Media format runtime. The name of the media format runtime package depends on the operating system and the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 setup that refers to the Windows Server 2008 or to the Windows Server 2003 Media format runtime installation package. Note: I ran into an issue on my first attempt to install the desktop experience feature with the following error: Attempt to install Desktop Experience failed.
The specified package is not applicable (error value: 0x800F081E). Attempt to install Ink Support failed. The specified package is not applicable (error value: 0x800F081E). What annoyed me was that the install and uninstall process took upwards to 15 minutes to complete and I was only able to get it to install properly on the 4th try when I uninstalled both the Desktop Experience and Ink and Handwriting Services (I only uninstalled the former on the first 3 tries). - Note: It was also noted on the Microsoft forums that while the Desktop Experience will work, it’s actually not required as you can just install the Window Media Format Runtime with a command. Installing Desktop Experience will work, but it is not required.
Windows Media Format Runtime is the real requirement. NOTE: the command for installing Windows Media Format Runtime changes with each release of Windows.
I've highlighted the subtle change in the command so you can better see how the command has changed between these two releases of Windows Server.
Installing OCS 2007 R2 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit Server. To download the Ocsasnfix.exe file, visit the following Microsoft Web site. Hope this serves to show an idea of what installing OCS 2007 R2 Edge on a Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit looks like. Posted by Terence Luk at 10:53 AM. How can I manually remove a dead OCS 2007 R2 Monitoring server? This initially consisted of a verbatim copy of our OCS 2007 R2 Active Directory forest - however for reasons of budget, we cannot replicate all of the actual servers involved in the production environment, so I'm left with an OCS installation that thinks there are many more.