User`s guide

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Using Lync 2010
Attendee
Lync Attendee is client software of Lync Server. People using computers off the IU
network can install the Lync Attendee client without the need for a license. All of
the in-meeting features of Lync are available in Lync Attendee, including:
 Computer audio
 Video
 Dial-in and dial-out (“Call me”) audio conferencing
 Detailed meeting roster
 Multi-party instant messaging (IM)
 Desktop and program sharing, including giving control to participants
 Collaboration features, including with Microsoft PowerPoint presentations,
whiteboards, polls, and file sharing
Using the Lync Web App
What is Lync
Web App?
If you are using a computer anywhere that has Internet access, you may use the
Lync Web App. Lync Web App provides most of all Lync’s utility including
viewing and presenting PowerPoint slides; meeting-wide IM; telephone-based
audio; file distribution and application; and desktop and program sharing. To use
the Lync Web App, you must be invited to a meeting or possess a meeting’s unique
URL.
Note: To engage in desktop or program sharing, you must be a presenter in the
meeting. All meeting attendees may ask permission to take control of a presenter’s
desktop or program.
Joining a
Meeting using
the Lync Web
App
To join the meeting, do the following:
1. At meeting time, open your Online Meeting e-mail invitation, and then click
Join online meeting in the e-mail message.
2. In the screen that opens, click the ‘Join online meeting’ hyperlink. A
window opens.