Managing External Web Conferencing Features

Enabling remote access to the web conferencing features of Lync Server is actually performed with the remote access policies. As long as a user is associated with a policy that enables remote access, the user has web conferencing capabilities through the Edge Server from the Global conferencing policy.

After deploying Edge services, the option exists to enable anonymous users to join web conferences hosted by the Lync Server infrastructure. Anonymous users are considered people who are not federated partners or users without a Lync Server enabled account. These users cannot authenticate with credentials, so they are considered anonymous to the pool users. Anonymous access to conferences can be enabled ...

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