Thus, many of those meetings you??™ve previously outsourced to Microsoft or other companies
(e.g., WebEx) can now be maintained inside your network. In addition, an Outlook plug-in, as
seen in Figure 2.1, lets you use Outlook??™s familiar scheduling interface to set up conferences.
Figure 2.1 Outlook 2007 with Live Meeting Toolbar Plug-in
(area enclosed in the rectangle in the upper left section)
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By using your own in-house server-based conferencing solution, you can provide your
users with a more secure, controlled, and cost-effective collaboration experience. Adding
RoundTable, another Microsoft product that we??™ll be discussing at length shortly, creates a
totally immersive environment by providing a 360-degree view of the location including
wideband audio and video by which the participants of your meeting communicate in real
time. It??™s the closest thing to face-to-face interaction that you can experience.
Group IM
The fi rst question that comes to mind when I hear the words group IM is ???What the heck
is it???? Microsoft??™s documentation says that group IM refers to an IM conversation that
takes place among three or more people. Anyone who has ever used Microsoft, AOL, or
Yahoo! Instant Messenger knows that you can create a group IM session in one of three
different ways:
?– You can start a conversation with one person and then invite additional parties to
that initial two-person IM conversation.
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