New Features of Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing

Two new features of Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing are available only if your company is running an instant messaging and conferencing server and the features are only available for Windows versions of Lotus Notes.

• Show instant messaging status for names Given conferencing capabilities, you can use instant messaging to chat with people or include them in instant meetings. This feature is enabled by default. To learn more about this feature, see Chapter 18, "Instant Messaging."

• Instant Meetings Instant meetings can take place when you have Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing capabilities. The Instant Meetings feature of Notes allows people to chat through text messages, communicate using computer audio or audio and video, and use a whiteboard or share computer screens during the meeting. To learn how to use this feature, see Chapter 18.

In this chapter, you learned about some of the new features of Notes 7 and where in this book you can learn more about those new features. In the next chapter, you learn how to log into and navigate the Notes Client.