Topic Last Modified: 2010-12-13

Meeting join settings define various characteristics of the meeting join experience. By default, the global settings define the join experience. You can also create site-level and pool-level meeting join settings. If you create pool-level settings, those settings apply to all meetings hosted by that pool. If you do not create pool-level settings, site-level settings apply, if they exist. If you do not define site-level settings, the global settings apply to all meetings.

This topic describes how to create pool-level or site-level meeting join settings. For details about how to change the global meeting join settings, see Modify the Default Meeting Join Experience.

To create new meeting join settings

  1. From a user account that is a member of the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group (or has equivalent user rights), or assigned to the CsServerAdministrator or CsAdministrator role, log on to any computer that is in the network in which you deployed Lync Server 2010.

  2. Open a browser window, and then enter the Admin URL to open the Lync Server Control Panel. For details about the different methods you can use to start Lync Server Control Panel, see Open Lync Server Administrative Tools.

  3. In the left navigation bar, click Conferencing and then click Meeting Configuration.

  4. On the Meeting Configuration page, click New, and then do one of the following:

    • To create a site-level policy, click Site configuration. In the Select a Site search field, type all or part of the name of the site for which you want to define meeting join settings. In the resulting list of sites, click the site you want, and then click OK.

    • To create a pool-level policy, click Pool configuration. In the Select a Service search field, type all or part of the name of the pool service for which you want to define meeting join settings. In the resulting list of services, click the pool you want, and then click OK.

  5. To route participants who dial in from the public switched telephone network (PSTN) through the lobby, clear the PSTN callers bypass lobby check box. By default, participants dialing in from the PSTN go directly to the meeting.

  6. To configure who can be a presenter in the meeting, in Designate as presenter, do one of the following:

    • To not allow anyone other than the organizer to be a presenter, click None.

    • To allow only participants who are members of your organization to be a presenter, click Company. This is the default setting.

    • To allow any participants to be a presenter, click Everyone.

  7. To have the organizer select a conference type when scheduling a meeting, clear the Assigned conference type by default check box. By default, the conference type is automatically assigned.

  8. To prevent anonymous (unauthenticated) users from being automatically admitted, clear the Admit anonymous users by default check box. By default, anonymous users are automatically admitted to meetings.

  9. Click Commit.

To modify an existing site or pool meeting join configuration

  1. From a user account that is a member of the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group (or has equivalent user rights), or assigned to the CsServerAdministrator or CsAdministrator role, log on to any computer that is in the network in which you deployed Lync Server 2010.

  2. Open a browser window, and then enter the Admin URL to open the Lync Server Control Panel. For details about the different methods you can use to start Lync Server Control Panel, see Open Lync Server Administrative Tools.

  3. In the left navigation bar, click Conferencing.

  4. On the Meeting Configuration page, in the list of configurations, click the configuration that you want to change, click Edit, and then click Show details.

  5. In Edit Meeting Configuration, modify any of the meeting join settings, except for the name, which cannot be modified.

  6. Click Commit.