Archiving Configuration

With the Topology Builder tool, most of the configuration is done automatically. Although both configuration and administration can be done from the Silverlight web GUI or the Lync Server Management Shell, the configuration section focuses on the former and the administration section on the latter, to avoid duplication of concepts.

Open the Lync Server Control Panel, which can be found at https://<pool_FQDN>/Cscp/. Scroll down in the left bar, and click the Monitoring and Archiving button. This brings up the settings menus for the Monitoring and Achiving server roles. Because Call Detail Recording and Quality of Experience Data are Monitoring functions, skip directly to the Archiving Policy tab. Here, you see the default Global Policy. Select it and click Edit and then Show Details.

These are the available options:

• Name (the name of the policy)

• Description (your own notes to identify the policy)

• Archive Internal Communications check box

• Archive External Communications check box

Now move to the Archiving Configuration tab. Again, you see the default Global Policy. Select it and click Edit and then Show Details. The available options are as listed here:

• Name (the name of the policy)

• Archiving settings, including three options in the drop-down list:

• Disable Archiving

• Archive IM Sessions

• Archive IM and Web Conferencing Sessions

• Block Instant Messaging (IM) or Web Conferencing Sessions If Archiving Fails check box

• Enable Purging of Archiving Data check box

If purging is enabled, there are two radio button options:

• Purge Exported Archiving Data and Stored Archiving Data After Maximum Duration (Days)

• Purge Exported Archiving Data Only

If the “Days” option is selected, the administrator has the option to define how many days the archived data is stored.