Microsoft Office Live Meeting is a full-featured hosted Web conferencing service. Users access the solution via a web browser over an Internet connection or via the rich client: Live Meeting console. A simple browser plug-in is usually installed, although not required, to provide a better participant experience. For a browser based experience, Java is required.

Microsoft Office Live Meeting delivers all of the capabilities one would expect in a modern Web conferencing platform including the ability display presentations, documents, browsers, and any application. Live Meeting also offers whiteboarding, and it gives participants the ability to mark up and annotate any presentation.

Using Microsoft’s IP audio capabilities, Live Meeting participants can join a Web conference using their computer microphone and speakers, and they will enjoy excellent audio quality, even over an Internet connection. Users may also join using a regular telephone.

The Live Meeting hosted service is offered with its standard services wrapper, or organizations can opt for Live Meeting Professional, which adds services to support broadcast events. Live Meeting Professional services include event registration, an events landing page, pre-event reminder email messages, testing and grading capabilities, post-event email messages, event recording, and operator assistance capability.

Key Features

Web client support for remote attendee flexibility

Interactive application/desktop sharing and whiteboard tools

Active speaker video switching, multi-party video, and multi-party VoIP/ audio

Rich media presentations, native video conferencing, high-fidelity recording, and Web cam capabilities