Getting Started With Unified Communications Conferencing; When To Use Communicator And When To Use Live Meeting - Polycom CX5000 User Manual

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To accept a call during a conference
1. To answer a call-waiting tone during an existing conference call, push the Flash button
to the incoming caller.
2. Press Flash button
Getting Started with Unified Communications
Conferencing
With Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 and Microsoft Office Live Meeting, you can add a variety
of communication modes to conference sessions, including phone, video, and even full Web
conferencing and data sharing with Live Meeting.
The conferencing capabilities described below require you to have conferencing capabilities enabled in
your organization. If you are not sure whether conferencing capabilities are enabled, contact your
system administrator.

When to Use Communicator and When to Use Live Meeting

Microsoft Unified Communications offers a variety of possibilities for conducting conferences. For
example, for everyday informal communications, you can conduct conferences with your closest co-
workers using Microsoft Office Communicator 2007. For more formal presentations that require you
to present Web slides, or that require application sharing, you can schedule a more formal Live
Meeting conference. Table 2 below helps you decide which conferencing method to use.
Table 2 Conferencing scenarios and recommended methods
If you need to:
Conduct unscheduled
multi-party conferences –
for example, you need to
make a quick decision
among co-workers.
Make an unscheduled
conference call
Present slides, share web
pages, or perform desktop
or application sharing
during an unscheduled
conference call
Schedule a conference
call to get on everyone's
calendar
Schedule a Web
conference where you
present Slides, Share Web
Pages, or Perform
Desktop or Application
Sharing
again to terminate the call and continue with the existing conference call.
Use this method of conferencing
Use the conferencing capabilities of Office Communicator.
Using Microsoft Office Communicator 2007
See
Use Office Communicator.
Using Microsoft Office Communicator 2007
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Use Office Live Meeting or use Office Communicator to start the
conference and escalate to a Live Meeting Conference, if required.
Using Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007
See
Use Office Live Meeting.
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Use Office Live Meeting.
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