Windows Meeting Space is a new feature of Windows Vista that lets users easily create secure sessions for sharing files and collaborating on work together. In this article I will also explain how administrators can lock down and manage this feature in an enterprise environment. Windows Meeting Space formerly Windows Collaboration is a new feature of Windows Vista designed to make it simple for users to collaborate.
Using Meeting Space, a user can share documents and applications with another user and even share use of their desktop. Collaboration sessions can be established over wired or wireless networks, and can even be established between two wireless hosts without the presence of an access point i.
There's no intrinsic limit to the number of hosts that can participate in a session, but practical considerations limit collaboration to roughly ten hosts, each of which must be running Vista Meeting Space is not available on Windows XP or earlier platforms and is not compatible with legacy collaboration tools like NetMeeting.
Let's do a walkthrough of setting up a Meeting Space session between two Vista computers. Note that the procedures outlined below are based on pre-release versions of Vista, so things may change a little when the final release version appears. Our test environment will consist of two Vista computers joined to a Windows Server domain, with user Bob Vista [email protected] on the first machine and Sue Vista suev on the second. Both are domain users but Bob is a standard user on his Vista computer while Sue is an administrator.
This difference only means that different UAC prompts may be presented to each of them i. Bob will have to supply an administrator password while Sue can simply click Continue.
Bob will begin by starting a new Meeting Space session. But before we do this, let's look at the exceptions currently open in Windows Firewall on Bob's machine Figure 1 :. Figure 1: Firewall exceptions on Bob's machine. This opens the dialog box shown in Figure Figure 2: Bob is prompted to start some services and open some firewall exceptions on his machine. Bob now clicks Yes to the dialog prompt in order to set up Meeting Space on his machine a UAC prompt appears so he'll have to enter the password for an admin account on his machine to continue.
I am afraid Windows Meeting Space is not available on Windows XP or earlier platforms and is not compatible with legacy collaboration tools like NetMeeting.
It's available only to users of the Windows Vista operating system, since it's built on Vista's peer-to-peer networking technology and uses Vista features, such as WS-Discovery. You may refer to the below links for assistance -. Thanks, Meghmala — Microsoft Support. Visit our Microsoft Answers Feedback Forum and let us know what you think. In a previous TechRepublic blog, we examined the latest features of the CrossLoop beta version.
That free collaboration software application allowed two computers to collaborate and share encrypted information over the Internet. That application was very easy to configure and use and is one of our favorite free tools here in the TechRepublic offices. Not to be outdone, Microsoft Windows Vista includes a similar collaborative application called the Windows Meeting Space.
This application comes with the operating system at no additional cost and can connect up to 10 users at a time in a collaborative environment. The key difference between CrossLoop and Windows Meeting Space is that the parties connecting in Meeting Space have to be on the same network. The ability to connect does not extend beyond the local network to include the Internet. The other significant restriction is that Windows Meeting Space requires that all of the connected devices must be using Windows Vista.
Windows Meeting Space is a nifty little program that comes with Windows Vista. The collaborative application is straightforward to set up and configure and has many of the features we have become so familiar with from using other collaborative solutions.
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