Controlling a Meeting

Presenter can sometimes find it useful to have a bit more control over the meeting experience. Lync 2013 offers meeting organizers some excellent tools for managing a meeting. For example, right-click on attendees to mute their audio, remove them from the conference, or modify their meeting privileges as presenter or attendee. The mute tool is especially useful when a participant is making a lot of background noise that is impacting the meeting experience.

Hovering over the participants icon while in a conference reveals a number of additional controls:

• Mute Audience—Mutes the entire audience, which can be useful in presentation mode.

• No Attendee Video—Prevents attendees from sending any video to the meeting. Again, this is useful in a presentation or broadcast mode in which only presenter video should be shown.

• Hide Names—Hides names of participants on their photos or video stream.

• Everyone an Attendee—Forces all meeting participants to be an attendee. This helps ensure that only specified presenters can share content or control the meeting.

• Invite by Email—Generates an email invitation with the meeting information. This can be sent to participants who should join the conference.