XCCC: How to Use NetMeeting to Manually Join an Online Conference (318422)

SUMMARY

Under certain circumstances, you may have to manually join an online meeting hosted by Exchange 2000 Conferencing Server instead of automatically joining from Microsoft Outlook or from the Web Scheduler. To manually join an online meeting, you must start Microsoft NetMeeting, call the Conferencing Server, and then type the correct conference meeting ID when you receive the following message:

Type or select the name of the meeting that you want to join.

This article describes how to obtain the randomly generated 22-digit meeting ID for a particular conference.

MORE INFORMATION

To obtain the meeting ID for a particular conference, follow these steps:

Start your browser, and then type http://servername/conferencing/list.asp in the Address box.
Click the link to the meeting that you want to join.
Right-click the lower-right pane of the Web page (the data frame section), and then click View Source.
Search for the Handle_Netmeeting_API string.

When you locate the Handle_Netmeeting_API string, the 22-digit meeting ID is the third parameter listed in the parentheses. For example, you may see a string that is similar to the following:

Handle_NetMeeting_API(strP, "HOSTNAME", "123456789012345678901", "", "", isH323Call); // NetMeeting above 2.0 handles API calls

In this example, the meeting ID is 123456789012345678901. Type this number when you receive the message that is described in the "Summary" section of this article.