Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Resource Kit

Chapter 16. Monitoring

• Event Logs

• Performance Monitoring

• The Archiving Server and the Monitoring Server

• Deployment Validation Tool

• Summary

• Additional Resources

Getting Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 properly deployed is important; however, a successful deployment does not ensure administrators can walk away and assume their job is done. After all, even the most perfectly deployed piece of infrastructure can be derailed by unforeseen circumstances. Hardware can fail; network segments can go down; a set of mergers can, overnight, triple the number of people who use the system. Because of this, Office Communications Server administrators need to constantly monitor the system and usage. That way, if anything goes wrong, the problem can be caught ...