Topic Last Modified: 2010-03-16
By allowing anonymous participation in meetings you enable anonymous users (that is, users whose identity is verified through the meeting or conference key only) to join your meetings. By default, all users are prevented from inviting anonymous users to participate in a meeting. You control who can invite anonymous users by setting options at three levels:
- On the Edge Server, you can specify whether to allow incoming
remote access connections and whether to allow anonymous users to
join meetings. To specify whether to allow incoming remote access
connections and anonymous participation, see Enable and Configure
Remote User Access. If you configured this functionality when
you deployed your Edge Servers, you do not need to do so again,
unless you want to change the option.
- At the global level, you can specify whether or not you want to
enable anonymous user access to conferences. Use the first
procedure in this topic to specify the global policy.
- At the user account level, you can control a user’s ability to
invite anonymous users by specifying which conferencing policy to
apply to individual users.
To configure the global policy
for anonymous participation in meetings
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Open Communications Server Control Panel.
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Click External User Access, click Access Edge Configuration, click the appropriate policy listed in the table, and then click Modify.
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In Edit Access Edge Configuration, select the Enable anonymous user access to conferences check box.
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Click Commit.
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In the left navigation bar, click Conferencing, and then do one of the following:
- To create a new global policy, click New, and then click
Site policy. In Select a Site, click the appropriate
site from the list and then click OK.
- To configure an existing global policy, click the appropriate
policy listed in the table, and then click Modify.
- To create a new global policy, click New, and then click
Site policy. In Select a Site, click the appropriate
site from the list and then click OK.
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In the Conferencing Policies dialog box, select the Allow users to invite anonymous users check box.
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Click Commit.
To configure a user policy for
anonymous participation in meetings
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Open Communications Server Control Panel.
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Click Conferencing, and then do one of the following:
- To create a new user policy, click New, and then click
User policy. Create a unique name in the Name field
that indicates what the user policy covers (for example,
EnableAnonymous for a user policy that does not enable
communications with anonymous users).
- To configure an existing user policy, click the appropriate
policy listed in the table, and then click Modify.
- To create a new user policy, click New, and then click
User policy. Create a unique name in the Name field
that indicates what the user policy covers (for example,
EnableAnonymous for a user policy that does not enable
communications with anonymous users).
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In the Conferencing Policies dialog box, select the Allow users to invite anonymous users check box.
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Click Commit.
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In the left navigation bar, click Users, search on the user account that you want to configure.
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In the table that lists the search results, click the user account, click Edit and then click Modify.
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In Edit Communications Server User under Conferencing policy, select the user policy with the anonymous user access configuration that you want to apply to this user.
Note:The <Automatic> settings apply the default server installation settings and are applied automatically by the server.