Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Web Scheduler
To create a Live Meeting conference and invite attendees, there is different ways:
- 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
- From Office Communicator 2007, by right clicking on the attendees and selecting Share Information Using Live Meeting
- 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.
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
