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Conference Scheduling Overview
This chapter provides an introduction to the Polycom
®
RealPresence
®
Resource Manager system video conference scheduling functionality and
operations. It includes:
• General Information for Scheduling Participants and Endpoints
• Scheduler Roles
• Conference Types
• Scheduler Overview
• Conference Menu Overview
• User Menu Overview
General Information for Scheduling Participants and
Endpoints
When you schedule conferences, you select the participants you wish to join
the conference from your user directory. Depending on your system
configuration, your user directory may be the enterprise directory, the Global
Address Book, or one or more local address books. It may also include Guest
Book entries.
For participants that have multiple endpoints registered with the RealPresence
Resource Manager system, the system selects the participant’s default
endpoint. You can change to another endpoint by selecting it from the Call
Info list or by editing the participant.
You can schedule participants without endpoints into conferences. You cannot
schedule endpoints without owners into conferences. The RealPresence
Resource Manager system can be configured to allow you to overbook dial-in
participants. In this case, dial-in participants can be scheduled to dial into
multiple conferences during the same time period, but the system reserves
resources for the participant for only the first scheduled conference. Dial-out
participants cannot be scheduled into multiple conferences at one time.
