It??™s somewhat
diffi cult to conference with just one person. The following steps guide you through starting
a videoconference using MOC:
1. Open the Communicator main window.
2. Locate someone in your contact list with whom you want to have a conference,
or search for a contact using the search bar (see Figure 8.5).
SOME INDEPENDENT ADVICE
Before deploying OCS video and audio conferencing features, be sure to plan
for the added load on your network infrastructure. Microsoft recommends
that network links support 45 Kbps per audio stream and 300 Kbps per video
stream. If you plan to do a lot of videoconferencing you may need to plan
for a network upgrade fi rst. In most situations, it is not recommended that
you to attempt audio and video over wireless networks.
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3. Right-click the name of the person you want to invite to a videoconference and
click Start a Video Call from the pop-up menu.
4. MOC will initiate a call to the other user. The other user will receive a pop-up
window from the System Tray on his computer. From the pop-up, he can click
Answer and the two of you will be instantly bridged into a videoconference. You
should see the other person in the conversation window and yourself in the
picture-in-picture window.
Now that you have started the videoconference you can see and talk to the person on
the other end. You can also take advantage of the following options within the conversation
window:
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