Conferencing Software Client Setup

Version: 2.0.0.0 Meeting Place Client Installation Guide

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Date: 12 December, 2008

Contents Preface……………………………………………………………..….……. 3 Meeting Place Client Installation Guide........................................................ 3 System Requirements……………………………………………….4 Install .NET Framework……………………………….…...………5 Vmukti Client setup…………………………………………………7 How to log in………………………………………………………...9

Preface

Welcome to Meeting Place, a Unified Social Collaborative conferencing engine which allows users to access through personalized web-interface. VMukti Meeting Place is mainly consists of core features such as Video conferencing, Audio conferencing, IP Telephony, Desktop sharing, Chat, Whiteboard, Presentation, Scheduler & More. VMukti Meeting Place enables the users to efficiently communicate with each other. A system blends all of the functionality required to collaborate using intuitive and user-friendly graphical interface Client Installation Guide. Meeting Place Client Installation Guide

This guide provides detail description with images of Meeting Place Client installation process. This guide includes all steps of Meeting Place Client installation with all steps of all prerequisites installation. So if a user has some prerequisites installed already, skip those steps and look for required prerequisites and Meeting Place client installation process’s own steps.

Meeting Place Client installation has three prerequisites  System Requirements  .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, Microsoft So if any of these prerequisites is not present on your system, Meeting Place client installation would ask you to install that particular prerequisite during its installation. If none of these prerequisites installed, Meeting Place Client installation would ask you to install all prerequisites one by one. You don’t have to worry about locating the prerequisites, Meeting Place Client installer automatically redirect to resource locations of prerequisites or guides for finding/installing prerequisites during the installation. If your pc has some prerequisites installed already then the installer skips automatically to those and asks for other which is not present on the system.

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1. System Requirements 1.1. Supported Architectures x86 1.2. Supported Operating Systems for clients Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Windows Vista (*With critical windows updates installed) 1.3. Supported Internet Browsers Internet Explorer 6 Internet Explorer 7 Mozilla Firefox 2 Mozilla Firefox 3 1.4. Client Hardware Minimum: 400 MHz CPU, 96 MB RAM, 800x600 256-color display Recommended: 1.0 GHz or higher CPU, 256 MB or more RAM, 1024x768 highcolor 32-bit display Up to 500 MB of hard disk space may be required 1.5. Network Requirements Client: 56kbps – 256kbps bandwidth 1.6. Other Software Requirement 1.6.1. Client: 1.6.1.1. .NET 3.5 SP1 The following steps are given to install Meeting Place Server STEP 1 Download Meeting Place Client setup from the following links: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=162339&package_id=261646&release_id =606849 http://meetingplace.vmukti.com/ClientSetupInstructions.aspx

STEP 2 Now extract the downloaded zip file. And start Meeting Place Client installation by double clicking on setup.exe file

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STEP 3This installation would ask you to install .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, if your system does not have .NET framework installed.

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STEP 4 Accept the terms and condition. Following three images demonstrate downloading and installation progress of .NET Framework. The download time depends on your Internet speed and your computer configuration.

STEP 5 After finishing the .Net Framework installation; double click again on VMukti Client setup .exe on first setup wizard click “Next” to precede installation.

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STEP 6 VMukti client installation progress screen:

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STEP 7 VMukti Client installation completed. Click “Close” to finish the VMukti Client installation.

After VMukti Client installation, get URL from a VMukti server-user (server administrator) for accessing/participating in VMukti collaborative conference Engine. The URL would be like: http://<ServerIP>vmuktimeetingplace , where ServerIP is the IP of the VMukti server.

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Log in with username & Password. The application download screen is shown below.

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