Managing Sametime Meetings

This topic explains the features you can enable or disable for meetings. Currently, the settings that you can change are global settings that apply to the entire server. User policies cannot control the settings.

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Table 1. Meeting Features
Feature	Settings
Audio and video	Enabled by default, cannot disable.
Change meeting background (video feature)	Enabled by default, cannot disable.
Share a video	Enabled by default, cannot disable.
Start a live stream	Live streaming is disabled if recordings are disabled. To allow recordings and disable live streaming, see Configuring Live Streaming.
Disable recordings	Recordings are enabled by default. To disable recordings, see Managing recording.
Change recording availability	Recordings are available for 3 days by default, to change the setting, see Managing recording.
Secure the meeting with password	The option to secure meetings with a password is, by default enabled, cannot disable. A user can choose for any meeting owned whether or not to configure a password on that meeting. There are no configurable password strength options.
Guest users	Guest access is enabled by default. To disable, see Disabling guest access.
Unmoderated meetings	Enabled by default, cannot disable.
Moderated meeting: Invite others	Enabling meeting dial-out.
Raise hand	Enabled by default, cannot disable.
User photos (authenticated users only)	You can retrieve photos from the Sametime Proxy server. They are displayed if they are available to the meeting server. You can use Gravatar to configure an avatar based on your Sametime email ID. Use it if your photo is not available through the Sametime Proxy.
Group chat	Enabled by default, cannot disable.
Group chat also in the rich client	Enabled by default, cannot disable.
Screenshare (start presenting)	Screenshare is enabled by default on all meetings. In a moderated meeting, the moderator must grant access to screenshare.
Multi-user screenshare	By default, any user in an unmoderated meeting can share their screen, even if another user is already sharing. It is not possible to disable this feature. In a moderated meeting, you can share only a single screen at a time.
Lock the meeting	Enabled by default, cannot disable.
Moderated meeting: mute everyone else	Enabled by default, cannot disable.
Moderated meeting: all cameras off	Enabled by default, cannot disable.
Moderated meeting: Invite others	Enabling a SIP Trunk for Meeting Dial Out

These settings affect the functionality of the server.

Table 2. Server-side configuration settings
Description	Setting
Maximum number of attendees per meeting. Currently, the maximum supported number of users per meeting is 100.	The default setting is 100 users. To change the setting, see Configuring the maximum number of meeting participants.