The Resource Kit Tools provide an additional toolbox to help troubleshoot and manage Office Communications Server. Because the tools manipulate system and server level objects, the user is expected to be a local administrator on the system on which the tool is run and possibly a domain administrator. Many tools will not function properly, if at all, unless the user is an Administrator or a member of the Administrators group.

These tools will run on the following operating systems: Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 or Windows Server 2008 x64 with Office Communications Server 2007 R2.

Note that as of this writing, there is not a set of Resource Kit Tools available for 32-bit clients or servers. This is not to say that they will not be available later. Please periodically check Microsoft Downloads for a 32-bit version, if and when it becomes available.

A prerequisite for installing and running the Resource Kit Tools is the .Net Framework 3.5 SP1, and the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 (x64) redistributable, which can be downloaded from here:

Documents provided on the companion CD can be viewed with Microsoft Office Word and Excel as delivered in Microsoft Office 2000 and later. Additionally, some files are delivered in PDF format and can be viewed with Adobe Reader. Viewers are available at the following locations from the Microsoft Download Center and from Adobe Corporation: