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Sametime Meetings Client Guide
The Sametime Meetings Client allows you to join a Sametime meeting or lecture in a web browser without the need to download a plug-in or software. This guide contains information on how to access Sametime through your web browser.
Managing meetings
This section focuses on the additional controls that are available to meeting owners and moderators.
Recording a meeting
When enabled, and depending on the configuration, any authenticated user can record a meeting. If you do not consent to be recorded during the meeting, you can leave the meeting.

Sametime Meetings Client Guide
The Sametime Meetings Client allows you to join a Sametime meeting or lecture in a web browser without the need to download a plug-in or software. This guide contains information on how to access Sametime through your web browser.
- What's new
  HCL Sametime and HCL Sametime Premium 12.0.2 provides many new features, enhancements and fixes to servers and clients. Additional releases to version 12.0.2 also provides updates to the product.
- System and browser requirements
  Before you begin, check if your computer has these:
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Logging in and out
  The administrator for your organization provides you with an URL to access Sametime Web Meeting client. Use your log-in credentials to gain access to the Meeting client.
- Getting started
  For a quick overview of the Sametime meeting client features and components, see the Quick Start Guide.
- Using Sametime Meetings
  This section focuses on the in-meeting features that are accessible by default to all meeting participants.
- Managing meetings
  This section focuses on the additional controls that are available to meeting owners and moderators.
  - Admitting participants during a meeting
    The waiting room feature requires participants to remain in a waiting area before they are admitted in to the meeting. When enabled, moderators can control when a participant joins a meeting. Moderators can allow authenticated users to bypass the waiting room and go directly in to the meeting. For more information on how to enable the waiting room, refer to t_create_meeting.html and meetings_moderated_management.html.
  - Start a YouTube live stream session
    Meeting moderators can start a live stream on a YouTube channel. Live stream sessions are typically lecture-style and do not allow participant interaction.
  - Recording a meeting
    When enabled, and depending on the configuration, any authenticated user can record a meeting. If you do not consent to be recorded during the meeting, you can leave the meeting.
  - Stopping the meeting recording
    An in-progress meeting recording can be stopped by the meeting owner or moderator. If the recording is not stopped, it is automatically stopped when no sound is detected for ten minutes or when the last person leaves the meeting.
  - Locking the meeting
    This section provides information on how the user can lock the meeting.
  - Ending the meeting
    Meeting owners and moderators can hang up and end the meeting at any given time.

Recording a meeting

When enabled, and depending on the configuration, any authenticated user can record a meeting. If you do not consent to be recorded during the meeting, you can leave the meeting.

About this task

By default, a link to the meeting is placed in the chat immediately after the recording ends. Authenticated users can access the recording link from the meeting room. Guests do not have access to the recordings. The meeting recording links are accessible in the meeting owner's recording list irrespective of whether the link was shared or not.

Procedure

Scroll over to the bottom of the meeting window and click the More actions icon ().
Select Start recording. A message is displayed indicating that the recording is saved by the record service.
Click Start. All meeting participants are notified when the meeting is being recorded.
Participants who do not want to be recorded can leave the meeting. Click X to close the message.