Administering Conference Rooms and News Channels

The administrator can create conference rooms and news channels for end users. However, with the proper privileges, end users can do this also. For more information about adding policies to give end users access to create conference rooms and news channels, see Chapter 17, Managing Instant Messaging and Presence Policies. End users who create a conference room or a news channel by default have Manage access, enabling them to administer the conference room or the news channel.

Listed below are tasks that you can perform in Instant Messenger to administer the conference rooms and the news channels. For more information on performing these tasks, see the Online Help.

• Administering conference rooms

• Administering and managing news channels

• Assigning conference room access levels to end users

• Assigning news channel access levels to end users

• Assigning end users to conference rooms

• Assigning end users to news channels (subscribing)

• Creating new conference rooms

• Creating new news channels

• Configuring end user settings

• Deleting conference rooms

• Deleting messages from news channels

• Deleting news channels

• Posting messages in news channels

• Removing end users from conference rooms

• Removing end users from news channels