Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Resource Kit

Understanding Conferencing User Roles

Regardless of authentication types, conference participants fall into one of two user role groups during a conference: presenters or attendees. Office Communications Server 2007 R2 keeps track of user roles for each conference participant. These user roles are used to authorize users to have access to different in-conference functionalities, which are summarized in the following list.

• Presenter. A user who is authorized to present information at a conference by using whatever media is supported. A presenter is also granted rights to manage a conference, such as locking a conference, ending a conference, promoting other participants to the presenter role, removing a user from a conference, changing the list ...