Start a Conference
You can start a conference immediately or schedule it for a certain time.
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To start a conference immediately, click Meet now, enter the name, enable preferred options and click Start.
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To plan a future meeting, click Schedule a meeting. See Schedule a meeting.
Tip: We recommend to enable recording automatically so that you could watch it later in your History or share the record with your colleagues. If you setup a password it will not only protect your conference from uninvited attendees, but also the conference record you share. See History of Recordings .
To start a conference, click New 
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and select Meet now.
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Figure. Starting a conference.
You can also create conference in other services:
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If you want to invite all members of certain TeamChat mobile group, click
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Right-click the Instant messaging contact and select Start Conferences from the context menu (see Instant messaging)
To organize a conference, enter name and select options you want to enable and click Start . If you enable microphone, camera, recording, they will start right at the beginning of the conference. If you enable Lobby, attendees will join your conference only upon receiving moderator's approval. You can also set password to join the conference.
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Figure. Meet now.
Conference screen
The conference screen allows to manage your camera and microphone, hide or show thumbnails with screens of your colleagues, open chat, and share your screen.
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Figure. Conference dialog.
Chat section. Write a message to your colleagues
Options section
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Mute/Unmute
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Start/Stop camera
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Share your screen. You can select from tabs whether you allow to share the entire screen or separate application windows. Other participants will have this window shown in the central part of their meeting dialogs.
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Raise/Lower your hand
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Start recording
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Leave session/Hang up
Administration section
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To copy conference link for sharing it with your colleagues, click Copy link
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To hide avatars of the participants, click Show or hide thumbnails
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To mute everyone, click More
and select Mute everyone (only for a meeting moderator)
Note: We recommend not to start online meetings or calls when connection is not secure. Google Chrome does not allow to use microphone over none secured session anymore and it is only matter of time when the other browsers do the same.
In Conferences, the ongoing session is marked In progress. Once finished, the conference will appear in the History tab.
