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What's New with Microsoft Office Live Meeting Client Deployment

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 will reach end of support on January 9, 2018. To stay supported, you will need to upgrade. For more information, see Resources to help you upgrade your Office 2007 servers and clients.

There are some important improvements with Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 client.

Meeting Client for Office Communications Server 2007. Organizations now have two Office Live Meeting options: they can subscribe to the Office Live Meeting service or they can host meetings using Office Communications Server 2007. A single Microsoft Office Live Meeting client can be used both by Office Live Meeting service subscribers and by Office Communications Server 2007 users.

User mode installation. Unlike previous versions of the Microsoft Office Live Meeting client, there is now a user mode installation capability that allows users who do not have administrator permissions on a computer to install the meeting client. The LMSetup.exe application installs the meeting client according to the users permissions on the computer. If the user does not have administrator permissions, he or she is able to install the meeting client and participate in meetings with some limitations.

Installer package. Microsoft provides the LMSetup.exe application for installation of the Microsoft Office Live Meeting client. If necessary, administrators can extract a Windows Installer package (.msi file) from this application to deploy the meeting client in a managed IT environment. The .msi installer provides:

  • Support for multiple command-line options, including silent installation options, which enable installation to the users desktop with no user interaction required.

  • Support for multiple distribution technologies. With the installer package, IT departments can install the meeting client using the deployment systems they already have in place, such as Microsoft Active Directory® Domain Services Group Policy, Systems Management Server (SMS) for managed enterprise deployment, Microsoft IntelliMirror® management technologies, or scripted deployment. The installer is available at https://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidOCS?clid=1033&p1=livemeeting.

Conferencing Add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook. A Conferencing Add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook is available, which allows users to schedule meetings directly from Outlook. Office Communications Server 2007 users must install the add-in so that they can schedule meetings. The Web-based Microsoft Office Live Meeting Manager, which is available to Office Live Meeting service users for scheduling and managing meetings, is not available to Office Communications Server 2007 users.