1. Microsoft Communications Server “14”: Management Experience
11/23/2018 5:54 PM
SESSION CODE: UNC317
Microsoft Communications Server “14”: Management Experience
Anand Lakshminarayanan
Cezar Ungureanasu
Microsoft Corporation
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2. You spoke. We listened. Agenda: Key Takeaways:
Drilldown: Planning (20 min)
Drilldown: Deployment (15 min)
Drilldown: Administration (20 min)
Drilldown: Monitoring (10 min)
Key Takeaways:
During this session, I will:
Walk through the Communications Server 14 (CS 14) manageability lifecycle and tools for different stages.
Understand reasons for new manageability architectural changes & key pain-points addressed.
Experience key aspects of CS 14 manageability through demos.
Get pointers to other sessions/links for more information.

3. CS 14 Manageability Lifecycle
Pre-Planning
Planning
Deployment
Administration
Monitoring
Datasheets
Product overview
SCOM 2007 R2 pack+
Monitoring Server+
Synthetic Transactions*
CS 14 Planning tool+
Planning Guides+
Topology Builder*
Setup (Local)*
Migration tools (PowerShell)*
CS 14 Control Panel*
PowerShell*
* new in CS 14
+ significant enhancements in CS 14

4. Pre-Planning
Planning
Deployment
Administration
Monitoring
Planning

5. Central Management Top customer issues before CS 14:
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Central Management
Top customer issues before CS 14:
Configuration spread across AD, SQL, local store
Edge has no access to AD, manual config needed
Deployment validation occurs post-deployment
No way to validate planned changes before they take effect
Out of sync – policies, configuration.
With Central Management in CS 14:
Schematized definition (Xml docs) of deployment topology, configuration of CS components & Policies.
All documents managed by central store (SQL database)
All writes (changes) happen against central store data. Eliminate “out of sync” problems.
Read-only copies of data are replicated to all topology nodes (including Edge).
Validation happens before changes are “published”. Eliminate misconfiguration.
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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

6. Central Management Store (CMS)
Configuration Change - Workflow
CMS
CS 14 server1 2 4 1 3 5
Administrator makes changes through CS PowerShell/UI Interfaces.
Master Replicator generates a snapshot of the new configuration.
File Transfer Agent replicates the snapshot to all computers in the deployment .
Local Replicator Agent notified of new snapshot available. Loads it into the database and reports back status.
Status is transferred back to master and replication status is updated.

7. Topology Model Global Sites Pools
Global CS Deployment: is a collection of Sites
Sites are made up of Pools
Pools host:
Services (such as IM, Conferencing, VoIP)
Users
Pools
Sites
Global
Fabrikam
Redmond
Red-1
Red-2
New Orleans
NewOr-1

8. Policy Scopes & Resolution
Configuration:
Data/settings needed by a component/service. Applies to all requests equally. “Knobs” to tune. Example: AddressBook Configuration
Policy:
Data need to process a request. Implies lookup & resolution
Example: VoicePolicy, ArchivingPolicy
Policy Scopes:
Global
Site
Pool (or “service”)
User
Policy Resolution Order:
Closest policy to the user wins.
User > Pool > Site > Global
Examples:
New-CSVoicePolicy –Identity “site:Redmond” –AllowCallForwarding $false
New-CSExternalAccessPolicy – Identity “Global” –EnablePublicCloudAccess $true

9. CS 14 Planning Tool Prescriptive guidance for deploying CS 14 :
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CS 14 Planning Tool
Prescriptive guidance for deploying CS 14 :
Workloads
Scenarios/desired UC modalities.
Datacenter characteristics.
Users
Usage model built-in
Voice users
External/Internal users
Topology
Servers, Hardware Profiles, Ports to be opened
Export to:
Visio, Excel, Topology Builder tool
© 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.
The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

10. Demo: Planning Tool
Cezar Ungureanasu

11. Pre-Planning
Planning
Deployment
Administration
Monitoring
Deployment

12. You spoke - about Deployment
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You spoke - about Deployment
Topology: Complex for multiple workloads
Servers:
Co-location of roles/# of servers - CWA, Mediation servers, Web components
Virtualization support
Hardware Load balancers : acquisition cost, config
Multi-site deployments: Managing geo-dispersed data centers
Traffic: Easily separate internal/external traffic
Certificates: simplify configuration & management
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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

13. Supported Topologies in CS 14
Core Servers
Optional Servers
Front end
Mediation
Standard Edition
Back end
AV Conf
Edge
Archiving
Monitoring
Enterprise Edition
Director
Exchange UM
Group Chat
SCOM

14. Reference Topologies Single Datacenter This example
upto 100,000 users
This example
20,000 users, HA, 14 servers
1429 users/server
Single DC
Enterprise Edition, Single Data Center
Branch through Edge
DC with Branches
Two branches, one SBA, one PSTN Interconnect

15. Virtualization What’s supported? Not Supported
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Virtualization
What’s supported?
Virtualization of specific OCS roles
SQL, Exchange, AD virtualization (as per guidelines)
Hyper-V R2 (2008 not supported), VMWare
Client virtualization (except Audio/video - use IP phone)
Not Supported
Branch office/Gateway only/Mediation server+gateway
Standard Edition (single server deployed as production Site)
Live migration of VMs via SCVMM (ongoing calls/sessions will be dropped)
Virtual Deployment Reference Topology
4 VMs – Front-end, Back-end+ filestore, A/V MCU, Edge
1 Physical machine – 16 cores, 32 GB with 4 NICs, 1024 GB SAS drive, Intel Xeon E7450 procs. Dedicated to OCS only
Pilot has no HLB or DNS LB. Production – Needs HLB.
Perf reduction (around 50%) compared to non-virtualized topology
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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

16. Deployment Links
Learn
UNC 315: CS “14” Setup & Deployment (Today: 5.00pm–6.15pm)
Topology Builder
A new user interface for Topology changes
Local Setup experience
Requesting and deploying Certificates
Migration and Coexistence
More information at NextHop.

17. Administration Administration Pre-Planning Planning Deployment
Monitoring
Administration

18. You Spoke – about Administration
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You Spoke – about Administration
MMC UI – pop-up property dialogs to configure. Nested pages and detailed settings.
Automation - make it simpler to manage users, policies and entitlements through automation interfaces.
Multiple places/levels to configure settings, need more config validation
Need a better delegation model for administration tasks
Support for server maintenance
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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

19. Communications Server Control Panel (CSCP): What is it?
A web-based, scenario-driven management GUI
Based on Silverlight 4 and PowerShell
Targeted to expose most relevant PowerShell delivered features / settings
GUI tool includes
Easy Navigation
Easy searches (Save & reuse queries)
Effective policy view
Voice Routing support built-in
No cascading property sheets
Role based access support
And more…
Replaces MMC-based snap-in used in previous releases

20. Demo: CS 14 Control Panel
Cezar Ungureanasu

21. CS “14” PowerShell Automation for your business needs
Easily manage CS “14” users and entitlements
Script your bulk changes
Automate regular system maintenance
Familiar admin experience
Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server, all provide PowerShell for administration
Leverage scripting knowledge across Microsoft stack
Implement cross-product scripts/processes
RBAC (Role based access control)
Delegate administration tasks
Out-of-box set of roles (fixed)

22. Demo: CS 14 PowerShell
Cezar Ungureanasu

23. Configuration Management Synthetic Transactions
PowerShell Features
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User Management
Search for users
Enable/Disable for OCS
Assign OCS policies
Configuration Management
Server Roles
Global/Site level
Devices
Device updates
Common Area Phones
Analog Devices
Policy Management
Federation/PIC
Conferencing
Voice, IM/P
Synthetic Transactions
Test Phone Calls
SIP registrations
Simple Conferencing
Deployment
Certificates management
Setup steps
Topology Management
Voice Apps
Response Group
Conferencing Attendant
Bandwidth Management
Partner Apps
Trusted Connectivity
Contact Objects
Lifecycle management
Clients
Client Versions management
In-band settings
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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

24. Pre-Planning
Planning
Deployment
Administration
Monitoring
Monitoring

25. Monitoring CS 14 with SCOM pack
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Monitoring CS 14 with SCOM pack
SCOM 2007 R2 management pack for CS 14
Central Discovery
Component monitoring
KHI – component alerts (stateful)
Non-KHI
Synthetic transactions
Call Resiliency alerts
Media quality alerts
Learn
UNC 316: CS “14” Monitoring & Reporting (Today: 1.30pm–2.45pm)
© 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.
The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

26. Demo: CS 14 Monitoring
Cezar Ungureanasu

27. You spoke. We listened. Agenda: Key Takeaways:
Drilldown: Planning (20 min)
Drilldown: Deployment (15 min)
Drilldown: Administration (20 min)
Drilldown: Monitoring (10 min)
Key Takeaways:
During this session, I will:
Walk through the CS 14 manageability lifecycle and tools for different stages.
Understand reasons for new manageability architectural changes & key pain-points addressed.
Experience key aspects of CS 14 manageability through demos.
Gain access to resources (other sessions/links) for more information.

28. Related Breakout Sessions All of them in this room
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Related Breakout Sessions All of them in this room
Monday
4:30PM
UNC320
CS “14”: What's New in Communicator “14” Experience & Backend
Amit Gupta
Tuesday
9:45AM
UNC311
CS “14”: Architecture
Mahendra Sekaran
1:30PM
UNC313
CS “14”: Voice Architecture and Planning for High Availability
Jamie Stark
3:15PM
UNC312
CS “14”: Network Considerations
Neil Deason
5:00PM
UNC314
CS “14”: Voice Deployment
Wednesday
8:00AM
UNC318
CS “14”: What's New in Conferencing Experience & Backend
Cameron & Tim
UNC317
CS “14”: What’s new in Manageability
Anand & Cezar
11:45AM
UNC321
CS “14”: Interoperability: Voice, Video, Conferencing, IM, & Presence
Francois Doremieux
UNC316
CS “14”: Monitoring and Reporting
Jared & Arish
UNC315
CS “14”: Setup and Deployment
Peter Schmatz
Thursday
UNC208
CS “14”: What's New in Devices
Avi & Sachin
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