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RoundTable Best Practices?

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I am in the early stages of planning a RoundTable rollout. They will be located in several conferences rooms at multiple locations and each conference room will have a local PC with a RoundTable attached and Communicator 2007 and LiveMeeting 2007 installed.
I am looking for feedback on best practices in terms of:
1) Have a 'resource account' (which is OCS enabled) that the user (meeting presenter/attendee) logs-in as (either into the machine, and/or into Communciator with), or,
2) Have the user who is using the RoundTable (e.g. presenting) to login with their credentials to use the RoundTable.
I assumed #2 was best (for credentials, permissions, provisioning, etc...), but it also has some disadvantages over a resource account per
conference room that anyone can login to.
I've read the RoundTable deployment guide and user guide, I cannot find any best practices in this regard. Any thoughts?
Thanks,Friday, December 5, 2008 3:01 PM
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Because generic resource accounts for endpoint authentication are always a greater security risk than a human-related user account option #2 is preferred from a best practices standpoint.Friday, December 5, 2008 6:26 PMModerator
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OCS is actually single identity related technology
You should always focus on the individual
It makes creating meetings much more simple because otherwise someone must make the room a presenter and have this resource account have access to user resources to share in the meeting
So option 2 is definately the preferred one
Meeting rooms should be in the meeting request according to Exchange Room resources as you are used to
Friday, December 5, 2008 8:11 PM
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Because generic resource accounts for endpoint authentication are always a greater security risk than a human-related user account option #2 is preferred from a best practices standpoint.Friday, December 5, 2008 6:26 PMModerator
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OCS is actually single identity related technology
You should always focus on the individual
It makes creating meetings much more simple because otherwise someone must make the room a presenter and have this resource account have access to user resources to share in the meeting
So option 2 is definately the preferred one
Meeting rooms should be in the meeting request according to Exchange Room resources as you are used to
Friday, December 5, 2008 8:11 PM -
I am concerned about the security implications also (although they can minimized with policies, etc...). It also poses some usability challenges for scheduling a meeting (under one set of credentials and then trying to present that same meeting under another).
Friday, December 5, 2008 8:14 PM