Microsoft® Lync® Server 2013 Unleashed Second Edition

Controlling a Meeting

Presenter can sometimes find it useful to have a bit more control over the meeting experience. Lync 2013 offers meeting organizers some excellent tools for managing a meeting. For example, right-click on attendees to mute their audio, remove them from the conference, or modify their meeting privileges as presenter or attendee. The mute tool is especially useful when a participant is making a lot of background noise that is impacting the meeting experience.

Hovering over the participants icon while in a conference reveals a number of additional controls:

• Mute Audience—Mutes the entire audience, which can be useful in presentation mode.

• No Attendee Video—Prevents attendees from sending any video to the meeting. Again, ...