The Adobe Connect Meeting Application is a robust and mature means for all users to gain access to Adobe Connect Virtual Classrooms. The Meeting Application has no browser dependency; it is sand-boxed and segregated from the browser and immune to the fickle restrictions commonly imposed on addins and extensions that cause users and administrators complexity and frustration with many browser updates.
Alongside the Adobe Connect Meeting Application, there is the evolving option for participants to join in an HTML5 browser session. This second option is improving and adding options with every Adobe Connect update and upgrade.
Among the Adobe Connect Meeting Application installers available on the Adobe Connect Downloads and Updates page, the MSI installer for enterprise roll-outs may be the least understood and perhaps the least utilized in spite of the flexible deployment options it offers. Here are the MSI download links for the new and legacy versions of the Adobe Connect Meeting Application:
With any collaboration or online live training option, the first hurdle is often getting setup to enter the virtual session to collaborate. The combined options of the Adobe Connect HTML5 browser and the sand-boxed Adobe Connect Meeting Application, when made available together insure that everyone invited can enter and if a participant needs to be promoted to either a Host or Presenter, it is a quick and painless option.
The MSI installer empowers network administrators to push the Adobe Connect Meeting Application into an enterprise and manage it. It works differently than the other Adobe Connect Meeting Application installers in that it installs an application that monitors the Adobe Connect Meeting user’s folder and installs the Adobe Connect Meeting Application upon login. The wise and wary veteran network administrator will immediately see the value of this approach and in particular will recognize it readiness to support a virtual client environment such as with Citrix.
For details on deploying and troubleshooting implementations of the Adobe Connect Meeting MSI, see the following article on the Adobe Connect Support Blog: Adobe Connect Meeting Application MSI Installer for IT Administrators
End users, trainers, Presenters and Host of Adobe Connect Virtual Classrooms employed within a large enterprise or education provider, will be well empowered to gain seamless access to live classroom sessions and collaborative Meetings when the Adobe Connect Meeting Application is automatically provisioned by the MSI on login to supplement the HTML5 browser even for participants. Let your network administrators know that it is prudent to push out all the tools to the collaborative end-users and when they do it, remember their birthdays and bestow gifts on them in appreciation of making your online training sessions brilliantly productive.
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