Windows 10: TenForums Saturday Live Chat 03-SEP-2016

Just a reminder geeks: 26 hours time to vote and tell about your backup software to participate in draw to win one of two Macrium Home licenses:

 

I have skype.....not for business version thou.....never set it up. So its just a regular version I guess. Never actually used it much. All I know is that it works....lol Maybe I'll show up....and scare some folks....

 

Mike, you don't need Skype, Skype does not work with these live chats. You will participate using your browser instead.

Simply follow this thread, a link to each of the three sessions tomorrow will be posted in this thread half an hour before the start. Simply click the link to chat, a new browser tab or window will be opened. Follow the instructions shown on screen and you are in.

 

Darn it Kari I wanted to play with skype....oh well .....maybe I'll try adding the Lync App. *Rolleyes

 

A Microsoft and Windows fan boy as I am, there are some things they do I would like to change. One is the confusing terminology:

Our live chats are so called Skype for Business Online Meetings, yet they have nothing to with Skype. In fact you really cannot even join our chats using Skype, and you don't need Skype for Business application or account to join.

To join our chats completely anonymously you can use either a browser (any browser), or the Lync app you mentioned. This tutorial shows how to join Ten Forums Live Chat with free Lync app: Lync App - Join an Online Meeting as Guest - Windows 10 Forums

To use a browser simply click the chat link and follow the instructions on page that opens. I have tested the below described process multiple times, it takes less than a minute to join.

First you need to download and install required plugin (size only 10 MB, works with all browsers):




Run the installer:




It only takes a few seconds to install plugin:




Now click Join the meeting link:




Enter any name you want to use as your username for this chat session and click Join the meeting (would be nice if TF members used their TF usernames):




That's it. You have now joined TF Saturday Live Chat using your chosen username. The plugin being now installed, when it's time for next TF Live Chat you don't have to reinstall it.

 

See the dedication @Cliff S shows in above post: for his & mine local time the Part 1 of tomorrow's chat starts at 6 PM. He has his alarm set 10 and a half hours earlier, just to be sure he doesn't oversleep *Smile

 

My calendar app*Tongue



Yup! I'm a TF Geek!

 

Let's see if I can participate in time *Smile

 

Hoping to see you tomorrow *Smile

 

Tomorrow? I thought it was today *Tongue

 

Today Saturday for you and me (it's 1:24 AM already), tomorrow Saturday for our fellow US members (and really for us, too, because we are still awake as in late Friday night) *Smile

 

To make Kari happy I have changed the time in my reminder.
Oh? The rest of you haven't set reminders for the chat today?

 

Time's a tickin' to the first part.

 

TF Saturday Live Chat Part 1 starting in half an hour. Live meeting already online for you to check the connection, join from this link following on screen instructions: Join TF Saturday Live Chat - Part 1

See first post for further instructions to join the chat. Remember that our chats are completely anonymous if you so prefer, just pick a screenname and join *Smile