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by rludwig

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We have a team member who will be telecommuting from out of state. We need to develop a means of including him in our development, staff, etc. meetings; some sort of telepresence. Need to be able to carry on conversations, share a whiteboard, etc. Company is not very positive about NetMeeting (security issues being foremost). Environment is NT4.0 Workstations, Token ring network, DSL connection or dial in to VPN at telecommuter's home, firewalls (of course) on the company side. We're looking for something that can be easily attached to an NT workstation so impromptu meetings are fairly easy to assemble. Needs to be fairly portable so it can be moved from one meeting room to another. Needs to be security conscious and bullet proof. Any ideas, suggestions, etc. are greatly appreciated ... especially if you've already done this. Thanks

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by emcs

My company uses NetMeeting. I do not know of any other software. There is a security issue with any software that you get.

I know this is not the answer you wanted, just what my company uses.

Good luck in your search.

dennie

by william jay

Use NetMeeting over the vpn connection. That's about as bullet proof as you are going to get. The newer version is encryption savvy, and will meet your conditions out of the box, except for a/v in secured mode. Theoretically, (since I can't test this at the moment), the vpn connection provides the security features, so the NetMeeting session doesn't need to ...

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