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database application whether a conference with a specific Numeric ID may be 
started. This is the method used with Windows Messenger and Office 
Communicator to initiate multipoint Video or Audio conferences.
For more information about Ad Hoc conferencing, see the MGC Manager 
User’s Guide, Volume II, Chapter 3. 

Meeting Rooms
Meeting Rooms are conferences created once, with no starting date or time, 
no reserved resources and it can be activated as many times as required. The 
Meeting Room remains in passive mode until the first participant connects to 
it and activates the conference. To start the conference you simply let the 
participants know the start date and time, dial-in number and the Numeric ID 
of the conference. No prior booking is required. The conference returns to 
passive mode once the conference ends and remains in the MCU memory 
until the next activation. In this mode, a Meeting Room is usually defined for 
each of the employees in your organization. This may require tedious work 
when your organization includes many employees, and it also loads the MCU 
memory with all the saved Meeting Rooms.

You can define a conference to start at a certain date and time or to start 
immediately. Scheduled conferences run once and are then deleted from the 
MCU memory. For scheduled conferences, the MCU reserves resources for 
the conference participants, provided the participant endpoints are defined 
during the conference definition. You can define conferences without 
defining their participants and let participants connect to the conference as 
long as there are resources available.