Pulse Collaboration Overview

Pulse Collaboration (formerly Secure Meeting) allows users to securely schedule and hold online meetings between both Connect Secure users and non-Connect Secure users. In meetings, users can share their desktops and applications with one another over a secure connection, allowing everyone in the meeting to instantaneously share electronic data on-screen. Meeting attendees can also securely collaborate online by remote-controlling one another's desktops and through text chatting using a separate application window that does not interfere with the presentation.

The number of meetings and users doubles in a cluster configuration compared to a single unit. For example, if you have x meeting/y users in a single unit, then you have 2x meeting/2y users in a two-plus cluster unit.

All Pulse Collaboration online meetings must be scheduled by a system user. The meeting creator specifies meeting details such as the meeting name, description, start time, start date, recurrence pattern, duration, password, and a list of invitees.

Meeting creators can use either of the following applications to schedule meetings:

• System end-user console—When the meeting creator uses the system end-user console to schedule a meeting, Pulse Collaboration displays it in the Meetings page of meeting-enabled system invitees. If you choose to enable a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) e-mail server, Pulse Collaboration also sends a notification e-mail to each invitee with a known e-mail address.
• Microsoft Outlook—When the meeting creator uses Microsoft Outlook to schedule a meeting, Outlook displays it in the Calendar page of other Outlook-enabled invitees and sends a notification e-mail to each invitee through the Outlook e-mail server. Pulse Collaboration also displays the meeting in the Meetings page of the end-user console for the meeting creator (but does not send e-mail notifications through the SMTP server).

Meeting creators can bypass these scheduling mechanisms if they choose to create instant meetings or support meetings instead of standard meetings.

You can create meetings with static URLs for a particular type of meeting (for example, weekly status meetings). You do not need to schedule these types of meetings. The host starts the meeting and the invitees enter the URL to attend the meeting.

Related Topics

• Troubleshooting Pulse Collaboration
• Enabling and Configuring Pulse Collaboration
• Task Summary: Configuring Pulse Collaboration