Dual homed meeting

A dual homed meeting is a meeting where the Meeting Server and Microsoft AVMCU (Audio/Video Multipoint Control Unit) both serve as hosts. All participants using Microsoft clients (Lync, Skype for Business) are hosted on the AVMCU, and all other participants are hosted on the Meeting Server. Meeting Management gets its information from the Meeting Server, and you can only see the participants who are hosted on the Meeting Server.

The label Dual homed meeting is displayed so you know at a glance that this is a non-standard meeting where some features are disabled. In dual homed meetings, the only meeting level actions you can perform are Move participants, Set layout for all, Clear all importance, and starting or stopping a Recording.

Note: You can only move SIP participants out of a dual homed meeting. You cannot move participants who are hosted on the AVMCU, and you cannot move anyone into a dual homed meeting.

Note: If all the participants who are hosted on the Meeting Server leave the meeting, Meeting Management will display the meeting as ended, even if there are still connected participants who are hosted on the AVMCU.

For individual participants, you can perform all actions, except for starting or stopping their video. Importance works, but it can only be set for participants who are hosted on the Meeting Server. Also, importance only affects what other participants on the Meeting Server can see. Participants hosted on the AVMCU will see the audible participants as defined by AVMCU, rather than the participants you have made important using Meeting Management.

Table 1: Meeting level controls

Action	Enabled	Notes
Pane placement	No
Move participants	Yes	This works only for SIP participants hosted on the Meeting Server, and only for moving out of the dual homed meeting.
Add participants	No
Set layout for all participants	Yes
Set layout for selected participants	No
Mute all	No
Unmute all	No
Mute selected	No
Unmute selected	No
Clear all importance	Yes
Clear importance for selected participants	No
Start/stop recording	Yes
Start/stop streaming	No
Mute on entry	No
Event logs	Yes	You can only see event logs for participants and actions hosted on the Meeting Server.
End meeting	No

Note: For a dual homed meeting, the event logs may show events for additional 'participants' who are not displayed in the participant list. These additional 'participants' represent the connection between the AVMCU and Cisco Meeting Server, and are not shown in Meeting Management interface to avoid confusion with actual participants who can be managed. There is also no additional management functionality for these connections.

Table 2: Controls for individual participants

Action	Enabled	Notes
Mute/unmute	Yes
Start/stop video	No
Make important/clear importance	Yes	The importance will only have effect for what participants hosted on the Meeting Server will see.
Call	No
Drop	Yes
Change layout	Yes