IBM Sametime design

With Sametime 8.5.2, we've introduced a great new security feature, "managed access," that lets people join your meeting rooms only when you or a room manager is there.

You can select this option either when creating a new meeting room or by changing the room settings of an existing meeting room.

This picture shows where this setting appears when you create a new meeting room:


This same feature is available for meetings accessed from a web browser:

People who try to join your meeting when you're not there are put in a "waiting room", and they must wait until you're there before they can see any content in the room.

Use this feature whenever you don't want people in your meeting room when you're not there!

Hi, I'm Lauren, the lead end-user writer for IBM Sametime. Amy and I are going to spend the next few days covering some of the cool new features in the 8.5.2 release.

Today I wanted to tell you about using audio and video in Sametime meetings that open in a web browser.

With Sametime 8.5.2, meeting rooms that open in a web browser now have many of the same audio and video features as do meeting rooms that open in a Sametime window.  This means that people who join meetings from outside your company, or people who don't have the Sametime client, can participate in audio/video calls.

If your company has these capabilities, when you are in a meeting room that opens in a web browser, you can use the call icons under the Voice and Video area of the meeting room to call in to your meeting and then perform call-related actions.

For example, here's what you might see under Voice and Video if you are the room owner or a room manager; click the Green phone icon to start the call.

And, here's what you might see after the call has started - icons to hang up the call, put the the call on mute and so much more:

Note: The specific call icons that the meeting room owner sees depends on the call capabilities you have and whether or not you are the meeting room owner.