Announcements
Typical conferencing services prompt a user to record his name, business name, or possibly location when dialing in to a meeting from the PSTN, and then the user can play that recorded greeting as he enters or leaves the conference. In Lync Server, where a visual roster is available to all participants, the need for this service is greatly diminished and can actually become a distraction to the actual meeting as attendees enter and leave.
Organizers can enable or disable the announcement service per-meeting basis, and it is actually disabled by default. Attendees who dial in from a PSTN telephone and want to hear a roster might use dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) tones to request a roll call, which is played only to the attendee. ...
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