Polycom DOC2223A manual Enabling Office Communicator Conferencing Features

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Appendix A: Multipoint Conferencing Settings

Enabling Office Communicator Conferencing Features

This procedure is required only when using Office Communicator conferencing features to start, join or control a multipoint audio and video conference directly from within Office Communicator.

This section describes enabling the following features:

•Enabling direct conferencing from within Office Communicator

•Enabling video calls with Office Communicator

•Enabling data sharing with Office Communicator

•Optional. Limiting the bandwidth allocated to the audio/video connection to a conference via Office Communicator

Enabling Direct Conferencing from within Office Communicator in Windows

This procedure consists of two stages:

•Copying the appropriate Communicator file to the required Windows directory

•Enabling the conferencing feature in Windows.

To enable conferencing from within Office Communicator:

1Close and exit your Office Communicator client.

2Copy the file communicator.adm received with Office Communicator installation from the application folder to: C:\WINDOWS\inf directory (note that "inf" is a hidden directory).

3Click Start—> Run

4In the Run dialog box, enter gpedit.msc (Group Policy edit). The Group Policy window opens.

5In the Local Computer Policy tree, expand the Computer Configuration tree.

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