Scheduled Meetings
Your Lifesize Fusion is a powerful communications tool that lets you make ad-hoc calls by simply searching the directory to select the people or meeting rooms you want to connect with or join standing or scheduled meetings arranged in advance. This includes meetings on popular meeting services such as Microsoft Teams®, Zoom®, Cisco Webex®, and Google Meet™.
For guidance on how to set up calendar integration on your Lifesize Fusion video room system, please refer to Manage Calendars.
Viewing Scheduled Meetings
The Lifesize Calendar displays a list of events that are scheduled during the next 48 hours—all entries in the room calendar show, not just video meetings. Entries in the Calendar become actionable during the scheduled meeting time.
In addition to the calendar display, Lifesize provides a ‘one click join’ or ‘one touch join’ experience for Lifesize and other supported third-party meeting invitations. This provides a simple way to join scheduled meetings and calls without the need to search through Meetings, dial the number manually on the keypad, or click hyperlinks.
Joining One Touch Scheduled Meetings
When ‘one touch join’ is enabled and a meeting is due to start, a notification displays referencing that meeting. To join the meeting, click the Join button.
Note: A meeting notification also appears on the Fusion display.
If the meeting that pops up is not the meeting you want to attend, click the Dismiss button. Then, click Calendar and select the meeting you want to join.
Further Information – The Lifesize’ one touch join’ experience
As noted above, Lifesize provides a convenient, streamlined workflow to help users join scheduled meetings using a ‘one touch join’ capability. The ‘one touch join’ experience is supported on all Lifesize hosted meetings and cloud-connected Lifesize Fusion systems associated with a room mailbox.
Lifesize extracts the pertinent meeting details from email meeting invitations that are sent directly to the meeting room mailbox and presents an on-screen pop-up when the meeting is due to start.
Note: All meeting invitations generated via Lifesize meeting apps, the Lifesize add-in for Microsoft Outlook®, the Lifesize app for Microsoft Teams®, the Lifesize Scheduler for Google Calendar™, as well as invitations generated directly from the Microsoft Teams® and Zoom® apps automatically offer the ‘one touch join’ experience.
Joining Scheduled Meetings on Third-party Services
Using SIP/H.323
Lifesize Fusion systems allow users to join meetings from other leading meeting solution providers as a guest. This interoperability is achieved through cross-platform calling, made possible by backward compatibility with H.323 and SIP communication protocols provided via the Lifesize cloud service.
Important: Not all leading meeting service vendors support these protocols by default. Sometimes this is a chargeable option required for third-party or additional gateway services. The meeting host or organizer should provide the ability to support H.323 or SIP calling for their meeting guests if this is required.
Supported Third-party Meeting Invitations
Third-party SIP/H.323 meeting invites supported by the Lifesize ‘one touch join’ experience:
- Amazon Chime™ meetings
- Synergy SKY® meetings
- Cisco Webex® meetings
- Microsoft Teams® meetings
- Either through an additional Microsoft® Cloud Video Interoperability gateway which supports Synergy SKY® Connect Plus gateway for Microsoft Teams and Pexip™ CVI gateway for Microsoft Teams
- RingCentral Video® meetings
- Google Meet™ meetings
- Zoom® meetings
- Either through an additional Zoom CRC (Conference Room Connector) gateway
Find out more about Managing Calendars or using Connect Plus Gateway.