Some basic questions, and sharing web pages
- Hello, I'm evaluating Live Meeting 2007, using a demo service account from MS, and I've a few questions. Hopefully this is the right section.
First, I see references to the Live Meeting Console in various documents. Most references are to LM2005. Is the console now actually the Live Meeting 2007 client? Or, is it a separate application? (and if so, where can it be obtained?)
Second, I'm using two laptops for my eval, both with web cams, and I'm trying to get them to show the current speaker - but it's not clear how to select the current speaker. I can manually select the speaker, but each client seems to insist that the OTHER is the current speaker.
So, how does one specify *who* the current speaker is?
Finally, I've done a little testing with the "Share a Web Page" feature and it seems that the shared web page is by default fully accessible to all participants and bypasses their local network security. For example - and this was my test - our local government offices block sites such as Facebook. I have no such restrictions. I recruited an authorised IT person in a government office (they are also LM users) to join a meeting as participant. I then shared Google, and he was able to simply search for Facebook, click on the links, and get right in.
There was also no indication to me, as presenter or as participant, that he was anywhere but on the page I was sharing.
This leads to two questions. How does one prevent users from wandering away via a shared web page, and is there a way to force use of their local security policies?
Thanks,
Patrick Keenan
Answers
Hi Patrick,
For your first question, the latest client is LiveMeeting 2007 client and if you want to find some related learning resources, I would suggest you use the link below:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/HA102389001033.aspx
For your second problem about the webcam, the "View Current Speaker" feature is designed to display the participant that is speaking. The microphone picks up their voice and tells Live Meeting to display that webcam at that time. Therefore anyone who speaks, and has a webcam attached, will be shown in the webcam display.
Please click “Voice and Video” in task pane and click “Start my video” beside the web cam icon. Once it connected to your web cam successfully, the small screen will show two images. One image displayed on the right corner is the image captured by your own web cam, the other image will be the current speaker if the presenter chooses “view current speaker”.
For your third problem, there is no way to prevent users access the web page you shared or force them use their local security policies. Thanks for your understanding.
Hope this helps.
Lu Zou
- Marked As Answer byLu Zou-MSFTMSFT, ModeratorFriday, September 18, 2009 8:54 AM
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- Hi Patrick,
Next to the Livemeeting icon on the top banner, click the drop down and choose about Live Meeting - there you will see the version of the Live meeting console. Can you elaborate about "seeing references to the Live Meeting Console in various documents"? Are you the only person using this account? Can it be that perhaps somebody else uploaded LM2005 to the contents to share them?
Microsoft's RoundTable device is able to show panaromic view and active speaker. Is any of the clients connected to a roundTabble device? If not, then you only have 2 way video.
For the sharing feature in Live Meeting the presenter has to specifically give and if set, accept, if the other user wants control. These settings are to be defined by the meeting organizer.
On the meeting options you can also prevent the application sharing option. You can prevent the host from sharing any application.
Thanks in Advance
Anesh
Anesh - Anesh, thanks for your reply, and I now see from the filename listed that the LiveMeeting Client *is* the console. An example of a reference to the console, which made me suspect that it was a separate item, is here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/livemeeting/HP011992711033.aspx
These systems have never had any LiveMeeting software installed previously, and have all used the same LM 2007 installer.
The text "view current speaker" seems to be perhaps misplaced title text. It's a list of those with active audio and video devices and you must select manually.
I can see and understand the points about sharing applications, and I'm using default settings for a reason. What I'm referring to is quite different.
I am the only person using the account at the moment, but I have several systems logging into it, all with cams and video. There are no panoramic devices. I invite myself to the meetings under various email addresses with various roles and restrictions, except for the occasion of my web securiy test as described above, where I involved an IT person from a government office where LiveMeeting 2007 is in use. They have government-required network security measures in place that Live Meeting 2007 completely bypassed.
Sharing desktop, applications and files has a totally different implication to sharing a web page, as the shared files and programs are basically view-only, but a shared web page is interactive and just walks around any and all security restrictions that are local for the participant. This is very easy to demonstrate.
If you share the web page as a program, this does not apply.
Setting the permissions in Meeting Manager to not allow sharing of desktop or applications does not appear to remove, restrict or affect access to shared web pages in any way. If I share google, for example, all participants can search whatever they like, follow lnks to other sites and content, and nobody else can see what they are doing.
I can't find any options to disable or regulate sharing of web pages, so I'll be glad if you can tell me where this is.
Thanks again,
Patrick Keenan Hi Patrick,
For your first question, the latest client is LiveMeeting 2007 client and if you want to find some related learning resources, I would suggest you use the link below:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/HA102389001033.aspx
For your second problem about the webcam, the "View Current Speaker" feature is designed to display the participant that is speaking. The microphone picks up their voice and tells Live Meeting to display that webcam at that time. Therefore anyone who speaks, and has a webcam attached, will be shown in the webcam display.
Please click “Voice and Video” in task pane and click “Start my video” beside the web cam icon. Once it connected to your web cam successfully, the small screen will show two images. One image displayed on the right corner is the image captured by your own web cam, the other image will be the current speaker if the presenter chooses “view current speaker”.
For your third problem, there is no way to prevent users access the web page you shared or force them use their local security policies. Thanks for your understanding.
Hope this helps.
Lu Zou
- Marked As Answer byLu Zou-MSFTMSFT, ModeratorFriday, September 18, 2009 8:54 AM
