Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit

Understanding Office Communications Server 2007 Internal Components

Figure 19-6 illustrates the internal component architecture of Office Communications Server 2007.

Figure 19-6. Office Communications Server component architecture

The Office Communications Server process of the front-end server contains the following components:

• Core components

• Presence components

• Conferencing components

• Voice components

The following sections will describe each of these components in more detail.

Examining Core Components

The two core components that make up Office Communications Server are RTCsrv.exe and RTChost.exe. RTCsrv.exe is the core process of the Office Communications ...