Office Communications Server 2007 Web Scheduler

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Recently I received a query from a partner on OCS 2007 Web scheduling and do we have any web based LiveMeeting Management tool. The partner was not able to get much information on Internet how to deploy it so I am posting this blog with some details on how you can manage LiveMeeting meetings through web interface.

Microsoft has a tool called the Office Communications Server 2007 Web Scheduler  - https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=96B42DC8-E769-4EFD-B7A6-ECA03058F8AD

Web Scheduler is a resource kit tool for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. It provides a Web-based alternative to the add-in for the Microsoft Outlook messaging and collaboration client for the purpose of scheduling a meeting using Office Communications Server 2007. It also provides a browser-based conference management experience that includes operations such as:

  • Scheduling a new Live Meeting conference or conference call.
  • Viewing and modifying details of an existing conference.
  • Listing all existing user schedules of a Microsoft Office conference.
  • Deleting an existing conference.
  • Sending an e-mail invitation to conference participants by using a configured SMTP mail server.
  • Joining an existing conference.

NOTE – > This is a tool in resource kit and is not officially supported by Microsoft.

System Requirements

  • Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003
  • This download works with the following Office program:
    • Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007
  • An SMTP server, such as Microsoft Exchange Server, is required for sending e-mail invitations for the meeting scheduled with Web Scheduler.
  • Web scheduler is designed as an ASP.NET application, which must be installed on the same Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 Web server on which Office Communications Server 2007 Web Components are installed

Instructions

To install this download:

  1. Download the file by clicking the Download button (above) and saving the file to your hard disk.
  2. Double-click the WebScheduler.msi program file on your hard disk to start the Setup program.
  3. Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation.
  4. Refer to the WebScheduler documentation installed to complete the configuration of the Web Scheduler.

After installation is complete, you need to activate Web Scheduler using the same user name and password that you used to activate Web Components on the computer. If you do not remember the user name used to activate Web Components, use the following steps. Open IIS Manager (%SystemRoot%\system32\inetsrv\iis.msc), and then navigate to Local Computer, Application Pools, and LSGroupExpAppPool. Right-click LSGroupExpAppPool, click Properties, and then click the Identity tab. Note the user name under Configurable identity type. You only need the name part of the string. If the user name string is Domain\RTCComponentService, RTCComponentService is what you need to use in the activation procedure.

To Activate the Web Scheduler

To activate Web Scheduler on Standard Edition, use the following command line:

LcsCmd.exe /web /action:Activate /role:Meeting /poolname:<pool_name> /User:<user_name> /Password:<password>.

LcsCmd.exe tool is located under %CommonProgramFiles%\Office Communications Server 2007. Use pool_name = name of the computer (for example, server1).

(you can find the OCS_ResourceKit_WebScheduler_Readme.doc in the %OCS_installation_folder%\Web Components\Conf\ folder).

To Launch the Web Scheduler  - Once the Web scheduler is activated, you can use https://<internal web fqdn>/conf/int/Login.aspx to launch the web scheduler

To remove this download:
To remove the download file, delete the file WebScheduler.msi.

  1. On the Start menu, point to Settings and then click Control Panel.
  2. Double-click Add/Remove Programs.
  3. In the list of currently installed programs, select Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Web Scheduler and then click Remove or Add/Remove. If a dialog box appears, follow the instructions to remove the program.
  4. Click Yes or OK to confirm that you want to remove the program.

Resources -

OCS 2007 Resource Kit link - https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=B9BF4F71-FB0B-4DE9-962F-C56B70A8AECD&displaylang=en 

Error message when you try to use the Live Meeting console to connect to Communications Server 2007: "Live Meeting cannot connect to the meeting." https://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/938288

Related post - https://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ucconferencingscheduling/thread/49482f78-4e8e-44ca-bf51-02a20d16999e