Today is a great time to check on the version of the Microsoft Office Live Meeting console and add-in you have installed because a new version is available now!

Version 8.0.6362.140 of the console and add-in brings improvements and fixes that include:

• Support for proxies such as Bluecoat
• The ability to invite personal Outlook Address Book contacts
• Enabling a single update to be sent when updating a single occurrence of a recurring meeting
• Formats valid Meeting Lobby URL’s included in invitations created with the Outlook Add-in
• Individuals identified as calendar delegates will be able to schedule Live Meetings and conference calls on Office Communications Server on behalf of the person for whom they are a delegate. (Note this relates to the Add-In only and only works with the most recent version of OCS R2.)

Here are the links to the two KB’s that will give you more information about what has changed with the Console and Outlook Add-In respectively.  From the KB articles follow the link to download the new versions

KB 969697 : Description of the Windows-based Live Meeting 2007 client update package: July 2009

KB 969696 : Description of the update for Live Meeting Conferencing Add-in for Outlook: July 2009

And finally, you may have seen posts on blogs and Twitter about this release in the last few weeks.  If you downloaded the build after reading any of those posts, you probably got sent to the March release, so please check. The .140 version is the July release and has only appeared in the last few hours…!