Web Conferencing

Joel

Joel

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So we are reevaluating our contract with the ASP we use for web conferencing and are taking a hard look at running Microsoft Live Meeting in house as well as evaluating other ASPs or applications. Any of you guys running Microsoft Live Meeting? If so, was it difficult to setup? Any thoughts, tips, advice about it?

For those that use something other than WebPro or Webex, what are you using? Happy with it? Is it hosted or do you manage it in-house?

Thanks guys!
 
We've used WebEx before, but usually on someone else's nickel... IMO, pretty costly for dedicated subdomain for no more than our potential use. Does work pretty well as lot's of support techs are now using it (like RDP) to "see" exactly what's happening on a box/app.

OTOH, I was looking into MS Live Mtg., but didn't find the pricing model very friendly! :mad:

What I need to do is HOST NetMeetings for external folks (with "choose participants from address book" functionality)...

*AND* find an internal IM solution (like MSN that will ONLY work internally).... which took me down the road to find that MS killed the IM service in Exch2k3 and are looking for the reach around when pricing LCS2k5 (same pay me for yet *another* CAL...)
 
Webex isn't as bad as they used to be pricewise but still it is a hosted solution and I would like to drag it back in-house if possible since this is mostly for internal communications. Live Meeting is also supposed to be a hosted solution (and even more expensive than Webex) but I was just looking through our stack of CD's from our Select agreement and guess what I found? Microsoft Office Live Meeting. I am gonna check it out and see what's on those discs.

I found a couple of GPL solutions on Sourceforge and Freshmeat that might work for you Caver. Most of them are java based so they are platform independent.
 
Nm, it was Live Communications Server that I found which is their IM server. :rolleyes:
 
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