Topic Last Modified: 2010-07-18
The conferencing policy is one of the individual settings of a user account that can be configured in the Communications Server Control Panel.
For details about how to change the global-level meeting policies at the forest level for your organization, see Modify the Default Meeting User Experience.
For a list of all available conferencing policy settings, see Conferencing Policy Settings.
To create a new user policy
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Open Communications Server Control Panel.
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In the left navigation bar, click Conferencing.
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On the Conferencing Policy tab, click New, and then click User policy.
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In the New Conferencing Policy dialog box, in Name, type the policy name.
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(Optional) To modify the default policy settings, do any of the following:
- By default, the maximum meeting size is 200. To make the
maximum meeting size more or less than 200, in Maximum meeting
size, type the maximum number of users that you want to allow
at a meeting.
- By default, users can invite anonymous users to meetings.
Anonymous users are users who do not have credentials in your
organization’s Active Directory Domain Services and therefore are
not authenticated. To prevent users from inviting anonymous users
to meetings, clear the Allow users to invite anonymous users
check box.
- By default, users are prevented from recording meetings. To
allow users to record meetings, in Recording, click
Enable recording, and then select or clear the Allow
external users to record meetings check box, depending on your
preference.
- By default, audio and video is enabled for meetings. To prevent
the use of audio and/or video, in Audio/video, do one of the
following:
- To allow the use of audio but not video, click Enable IP
audio.
- To prevent use of audio and video, click None.
- To allow the use of audio but not video, click Enable IP
audio.
- If you are enabling audio, do any of the following:
- By default, if audio is enabled, users can dial in to meetings
by using the public switched telephone network (PSTN). To prevent
the use of PSTN for dialing in, clear the Enable PSTN conference
dial-in check box.
- By default, if audio is enabled, anonymous users cannot dial
out dialing out from meetings. To allow anonymous users to dial
out, select the Allow anonymous users to dial out check
box.
- By default, if audio is enabled, users can dial in to meetings
by using the public switched telephone network (PSTN). To prevent
the use of PSTN for dialing in, clear the Enable PSTN conference
dial-in check box.
- By default, the maximum video resolution is 640*480(VGA). To
change the maximum video resolution, in Maximum video resolution
allowed for conferencing, click the setting that you want to
use.
- By default, data collaboration is allowed. To prevent data
collaboration, in Data collaboration, click None.
- If you are allowing data collaboration, do the following:
- By default, external users can download content. To prevent
external downloads, clear the Allow external users to download
content check box.
- By default, users can transfer files. To prevent file
transfers, clear the Allow users to transfer files check
box.
- By default, peer-to-peer transfers are allowed. To prevent
peer-to-peer transfers, clear the Allow users to transfer files
using peer-to-peer check box.
- By default, annotations are allowed. To prevent the use of
annotations, clear the Enable the use of annotations check
box.
- By default, external users can download content. To prevent
external downloads, clear the Allow external users to download
content check box.
- By default, users can schedule meetings by using application
sharing. To prevent the use of application sharing for scheduling
meetings, clear the Allow users to schedule meetings with
application sharing check box.
- If you are allowing users to schedule meetings with application
sharing, by default, application and desktop sharing are both
allowed. To prevent application and/or desktop sharing, do one of
the following:
- To allow application sharing but not desktop sharing, click
Enable application sharing for users.
- To prevent application and desktop sharing, click Disable
application and desktop sharing for users.
- To allow application sharing but not desktop sharing, click
Enable application sharing for users.
- If you are allowing application sharing, by default, users can
take control of the sharing. To prevent users from taking control,
clear the Allow users to take control check box.
- If you allow users to take control of the sharing, then, by
default, external users cannot control shared applications. To
allow external users to control shared applications, select the
Allow external users to control shared applications check
box.
- By default, the maximum meeting size is 200. To make the
maximum meeting size more or less than 200, in Maximum meeting
size, type the maximum number of users that you want to allow
at a meeting.
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Click Commit.
To modify an existing user policy
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Open Communications Server Control Panel.
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In the left navigation bar, click Conferencing.
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On the Conferencing Policy tab, click the policy that you want to make changes to, click Edit, and then click Modify.
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In the Edit Conferencing Policy dialog box, modify any of the policy settings, except for the policy name, which cannot be modified.
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Click Commit.