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Elastix Unified Communications Server Cookbook

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Elastix Unified Communications Server Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Elastix Unified Communications Server Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Description and Use of the Most Well-known FreePBX Modules
Addon Market Module
Asterisk Essential Commands
Asterisk Gateway Interface Programming
Helpful Linux Commands
Index

Creating conference rooms


Whenever we need to have a conference call, we can take advantage of Elastix's Conference Call module to create conference rooms.

How to do it…

  1. To add a conference, click on the Add Conference link.

  2. Enter Conference Number (like an extension number)that we can dial to gain access to it.

  3. Add a name for the conference (Weekly Conference, for example).

  4. Define the administrator of the conference. The admin user can mute or remove any participant from the conference.

  5. Define the users.

  6. If we set the Leader Wait option to Yes and define the administrator, the user who enters that PIN when entering the conference will make the conference start automatically. This means that the regular users will have to wait (hearing music on hold) until the administrator joins the conference.

  7. If we want users to enter a password for a specific conference, we can set the User PIN option.

How it works…

We will look at the working principle of this feature with an example:

  1. Create a Conference Room...