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Need to collaborate with colleagues? Don't schedule a conference room, or commute to each other's building, instead 'Think Lync!' What is Lync? Microsoft Lync 2013 service is now available to all University faculty, graduate students, and staff. Lync is an easy-to-use tool that makes remote communication and collaboration possible. At Princeton, Lync is connected to the University's central Exchange directory service, which means that it's easy to create Contact Lists of other Princeton Lync users and groups of colleagues and then share each other's availablility.
For quick communications with one or more of your contacts, you can take advantage of the 'Instant message' style text chats Lync offers. You can also enhance your chat experience and hold voice and video chats. Lync offers several views of your participants and indicates who is currently contributing to the chat by highlighting the participant's picture or video window.
You can use Outlook to schedule chats with Princeton Lync users and external colleagues (including Skype users), vendors, etc. In Lync sessions, you can remotely share your desktop or presentation with other meeting participants, as well as give control of your desktop to another meeting participant. Desktop sharing is a convenient way to remotely help a colleague who may be having technical problems or who would like for you to be able to edit a document, etc. Lync also includes features that enable you to record meetings and store them locally on the meeting leader's computer for future review.
Another handy Lync feature is the ability to access your University telephone call history so you can, for example, confirm when you had a conversation with someone without having to look outside the Lync environment.
Running Lync 2013 infrastructure with a mix of Lync 2013/2010 clients for Windows and Lync for Mac 2011. The mac users have Lync 2011 ver 14.0.6. They can share their desktop out to others, but cannot request or take control of other users’ desktops. The option to do so is grayed out on the Mac. Kb.iu.edu In Communicator for Mac, you can share your desktop with others.Unlike Lync, you cannot give control of your desktop to another person, although people using those programs can give you control of their desktops.
On this page, you can learn how to show the contents of your desktop, deliver a PowerPoint presentation, share your programs, and give or take control of a Skype for Business meeting. You can show your entire desktop or just a program to everyone in a Skype for Business Meeting, call, or instant messaging (IM) conversation. Keep in mind that you need to be a presenter in a Skype for Business Meeting to share your screen. If the option is grayed out, ask one of the presenters to give you presenter access.
Present Desktop when you need to switch between multiple programs, or work on files from different programs. Present Programs when you need to present specific programs or files and don’t want people to see anything else on your computer. Share your desktop or a program.
At the bottom of the conversation window, point to the presentation (monitor) icon. On the Present tab, do one of the following: To share the content on your desktop, click Desktop. Important When sharing your desktop, everyone in the meeting can see your programs, files, and notifications.
If you have confidential information or files that you don’t want people to see, close them or use Present Programs instead. To share one or more programs or files, click Program, and then select the specific program(s) or file(s). On the sharing toolbar, on top of the screen, use any of these options: Click Stop Presenting when you are done sharing your screen. Click Give Control to share control of your desktop or program with the participants Click the pin to hide the toolbar and have more space. To un-hide the toolbar, move your mouse to the top of the screen.
When the sharing toolbar appears, use any of the controls you need or click the pin again to keep the toolbar visible. Note While you are presenting, your Skype for Business status changes to Busy, and you won’t receive instant messages or calls. If you want a meeting attendee to share their screen, give them presenter access, so they can use the controls. If they don’t use Skype for Business, they can still use Skype for Business Web App to present.
Share primary, secondary or all monitors If you have more than one monitor, they all display on the Present tab, and you can choose which one to share. When you share All Monitors, the sharing toolbar opens on your primary monitor. Presenting a PowerPoint slide show-in a multiple monitors scenario You can present a PowerPoint slide show like a pro when you take advantage of multiple monitors. Mac Users: You can not upload a PowerPoint file into an online meeting using Skype for Business Mac 2016. However, you can participate in a PowerPoint Presentation meeting that has been initiated from a Windows-based computer; and, if needed, you can take over as the presenter of the meeting. If you are in a conference room, and you want to display the slide show using a projector or large screen device, then present to the secondary monitor.
Your PowerPoint slide show will appear on the big screen for the people in the room and on the presentation stage for the people on Skype for Business. And on your laptop, you'll see the presenter view that shows the current slide, your presenter notes, and a preview of the next slide-visible to only you. If you are presenting a PowerPoint slide show using Lync from your office, and you have multiple monitors, you can present to your secondary monitor and still see your presenter notes view on your primary monitor. Either way, the instructions are the same:. Open your PowerPoint deck on your primary monitor (or laptop if you are in a conference room).
From Skype for Business, click the Present icon. Choose Secondary monitor.
Give and take control of a sharing session If you want another meeting participant to change a file, help you present, or demonstrate something, you can grant control to that person. You will both be in control of the sharing, and you can take back control anytime. On the sharing toolbar, click Give Control. Select the name of the person you want to give control to. Skype for Business sends a notification to that person to let them know you’re sharing control. To take control back, click Give Control again, and then click Take Back Control.
Tip You can allow people to automatically take control of your sharing session at any time, by clicking Give Control Automatically on the sharing toolbar. We recommend you choose this option only in small and casual meetings. To take back automatic permission, click Give Control, and clear the Give Control Automatically check box.