The Edge Planning Tool for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 provides settings for configuring your perimeter network based on information that you provide to the tool.

 

The Edge Planning Tool asks questions about your proposed or current edge server deployment. The tool uses your answers and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 best practices to generate the following reports:

  • Settings you can use to configure your certificates, DNS services, and firewalls
  • Custom documentation for configuring your edge servers, reverse proxy, and next hop server
  • A comparison of your answers to Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 best practices