Cisco Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server Quick Setup Guide
Configuring Meetings for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace
Configuring Continuous Meetings
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Configuring Continuous Meetings
A continuous meeting is a type of scheduled, recurring meeting that reserves the meeting ID and ports
indefinitely, so that participants may join the meeting at any time on any day. These special
characteristics apply to continuous meetings:
indefinitely, so that participants may join the meeting at any time on any day. These special
characteristics apply to continuous meetings:
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A continuous meeting is in session only when at least one participant is in the meeting.
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The system treats all instances of a continuous meeting as a single entity with common unique
conference ID, displayed as
conference ID, displayed as
in reports and exported data.
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Continuous meeting information does not appear in reports or exported data until after the meeting
becomes empty.
becomes empty.
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Billing reports do not count the minutes during which continuous meetings are empty.
Restrictions
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Only users of type
can schedule continuous meetings.
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Continuous meetings cannot be recorded.
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A maximum of 1000 continuous meetings can be scheduled on the system.
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Continuous meetings cannot expand port reservations as users join. If all the reserved ports for a
continuous meeting are in use, then additional users may join the meeting only if floater ports are
available. This restriction applies to audio and video ports.
continuous meeting are in use, then additional users may join the meeting only if floater ports are
available. This restriction applies to audio and video ports.
It is common, however, to schedule continuous meetings with zero ports so that no resources are
held when the meeting is not in session.
held when the meeting is not in session.
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If a continuous meeting is not scheduled with reserved video resources, then video may be used only
if
if
are configured and are available at that time.A continuous meeting instance
cannot exceed 24 hours, after which time the system drops all calls in the meeting. Nevertheless,
meeting participants may immediately rejoin to restart the meeting.
meeting participants may immediately rejoin to restart the meeting.
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In Cisco Unified Communications Manager environments, the length of each call is also limited by
the Maximum Call Duration Timer service parameter in Cisco Unified Communications Manager.
Continuous meeting participants whose calls are dropped for this reason may immediately rejoin the
meeting.
the Maximum Call Duration Timer service parameter in Cisco Unified Communications Manager.
Continuous meeting participants whose calls are dropped for this reason may immediately rejoin the
meeting.
We recommend that you disable the Maximum Call Duration Timer by setting it to 0. See
in the
module.
Before You Begin
Complete the
.
Note
By performing this task, you grant
privileges to the specified users.
Procedure
Step 1
Log in to the Administration Center.
Step 2
Select User Configuration > User Profiles.
Step 3
Select Edit or Add New, depending on whether you want to configure an existing or a new user group
or user profile.
or user profile.