At IU, should I use Adobe Connect Meeting or Microsoft Live Meeting for my online meetings?

Indiana University supports two distinct collaboration tools for sharing your computer desktop, applications, and presentations with remote meeting participants: Adobe Connect Meeting (formerly Breeze) and Microsoft Live Meeting. Your decision about which tool to use depends largely on your meeting participants.

If you anticipate a variety of users joining your meeting from Windows, Macintosh, and/or Linux computers, consider using Adobe Connect Meeting, which is a web-based collaboration tool. (To attend, users need the Adobe Flash Player, which is already installed on 99% of Internet-enabled computers.) Once you have a Connect Meeting Host account, it's easy both to invite participants to your online meeting and for them to join; they simply point their browsers to your meeting's URL. For more, see At IU, what is the Connect Meeting Service?

If all of your meeting attendees are Windows users who use IU's UniCom service, Microsoft Live Meeting is a second option. Live Meeting is tightly integrated with IU's UniCom service, making it simple for you to invite UniCom users to a Live Meeting session and for your participants to join your meeting, since the Live Meeting client software is already installed on their computers. Windows users who are not part of IU's UniCom service can also attend your online meeting, but will need to download and install the Live Meeting software before the meeting starts. At this time, Live Meeting sessions are accessible only from Windows computers. For more, see Getting started with Live Meeting.

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