Managing A/V Edge Features

After deploying an A/V Edge Server, users will be able to do peer-to-peer audio and video through the Edge Server without additional configuration. To support A/V conferencing features, the user must be associated with a conferencing policy that enables audio, video, and application sharing. The global policy can be edited to allow this or, as in the following example, a site policy can be created specifically for A/V conferencing and application-sharing features.

1. Open the Lync Server Control Panel.

2. Select Conferencing in the navigation pane.

3. Select New and select Site Policy.

4. Select a site to associate the policy to and click OK.

5. Specify a maximum meeting size for the conferences.

6. In the Audio/Video section, either select Enable IP Audio/Video or Enable IP Audio depending on requirements.

7. Select a maximum video resolution for conferencing of either 640×480 (VGA) or 352×288 (CIF).

8. If the conferencing policy does not require data collaboration, select None, or if the policy should also allow web conferencing, leave Enable data collaboration selected.

9. To support application sharing, select the Allow users to schedule meetings with application sharing check box and then select Enable application sharing for users or Enable application and desktop sharing for users.

10. Click Commit to save the new policy.

Because a site policy was created, it should be automatically applied to users. To create a new policy, which can be assigned directly to users, the following Lync Server Management Shell command can be used.

New-CSConferencingPolicy "Allow AV and Desktop Sharing" –AllowExternalUserControl $true
–AllowIPAudio $true –AllowIPVideo $true –MaxVideoConferenceResolution VGA
–AllowParticipantControl $true –AllowUserToScheduleMeetingsWithAppSharing $true
–EnableAppDesktopSharing Desktop –MaxMeetingSize 20