To create a Live Meeting conference and invite attendees, there is different ways:

  1. Directly from Office Live Meeting 2007 client, by clicking on Meet Now. An email client installed on the user’s computer is required to send the invitation
  2. From Office Communicator 2007, by right clicking on the attendees and selecting Share Information Using Live Meeting
  3. From Office Outlook or Lotus Notes, by clicking on Schedule a Live Meeting in the add-in menu. The Live Meeting Conferencing add-in can be downloaded here:

For users without any email client installed on their computer (ex: users using only webmail client), Microsoft has released the R2 version of the Web Scheduler. This Resource Kit tool can be downloaded here:

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Web Scheduler
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=6d6848ec-e7d6-41f4-82d9-5bed3526fcbd

This tool allows users to manage Live Meeting conferences from a web browser, such as: scheduling a new conference, modifying, deleting, listing or joining conference.

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The Web Scheduler can be deploy on:
- Standard pool servers
- Enterprise Consolidated pool, Front-End servers
- Enterprise Expanded pool, Web Components servers

The prerequisites are:
- IIS and ASP.NET installed on the servers
- An SMTP server to send the invitation by mail