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October 24, 2007
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Outlook plugin not recognising room

  • October 24, 2007
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I've got a server installation of Connect 6 running at my University, but for some reason the Outlook plugin does not work. I give it some valid credentials yet it rejects them.

We have recently moved to Exchange - would this affect it? Anyone had any similar issues? I've used the Outlook plugin fine with external rooms, but my own rooms, hosted within the Uni, don't work!

Rich Osborne

P.S. Apologies for the double posting - clumsy mouse work on my part ...
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    Known Participant
    June 18, 2008
    Nrabinovitch,

    Make sure that you are a member of the "Meeting host group".

    Administration > users and groups >....

    When you are a member of the "Meeting host group" - Adobe Connect will create a "my meetings" folder to you.

    John K.
    Participating Frequently
    June 18, 2008
    My instance of Adobe Connect has no "Meeting Host Group"
    The only system groups I have are
    Administrators
    Administrators - Limited
    Account Meeting Administrators
    Authors
    and one more 'system group' which I renamed way back when this was Breeze - when I try to add myself to this group I get the following message:
    "Operation Failed - Error Code: no data, SubCode:"
    ???
    Participating Frequently
    June 4, 2008
    Hey, this OE plugin really seems to be an ongoing issue. Now first of all, this might have changed in Connect 7. I would need to double check for the my meetings folder, but somehow I think there should be one no matter what group you are member of. In any case, you need to be member of the meeting host group if you want the plugin to pick up the room list from that folder.
    Participating Frequently
    June 4, 2008
    I am definitely the meeting host as I created the meeting and believe that I am its host by default - I went and checked anyway and saw myself listed as the meeting host.
    Participating Frequently
    November 15, 2007
    Hi Al,
    now I am pretty much through all I could think of... all that might help now is to completely remove the add-in, including all registry keys and any other files that might come with it. Might be worth a shot searching the knowledge base on how to completely remove the add-in. Once you've done that, get the newest version from here http://download.macromedia.com/pub/connect/updaters/connect_outlook_en.zip and try all over again with a brand new meeting in the right folder etc.

    I guess you've also tried getting the add-in to work on another computer, no? It might also be some weird Microsoft update blocking the add-in in some Microsoft-ish way ;-) Maybe someone else has a good idea on this one?

    Kay
    Known Participant
    November 16, 2007
    Kay,

    I have done all that you said and tried it on 2 ther computers. 2 were running Outlook 2003 and 1 was running Outlook 2007. The result was the same. I know you tried your best and for that I thank you.

    Al
    Participant
    November 12, 2007
    We are having the same issues, though we are using the hosted service verison. We have tried the "/" trick and added the user to "Meeting Hosts" group. Still not working. I believe it may be related to a network firewall issue, but do not see any assistance in the documentation. Other testing has included moving a laptop off the corporate network and onto the "Internet" (via a Sprint broadband card). When the process is started (again) to configure the plug-in, the symptoms change, i.e. the process appears to move farther, but a new error is returned "The meeting room you specified is incorrect. Please enter a different meeting room". When on the corporate network, the error is (all things the same -- same meeting room/user name/password) is: "Login, password and meeting room URL could not be validated. Please make sure you entered the correct information."

    Any ideas and/or would support be able to provide more details about how this mechanism actually works?
    Known Participant
    November 9, 2007
    Thanks for your help folks. I have made a new meeting, put it in the proper folder, included the trailing slash etc. Still no joy.

    Thanks,

    Al
    Participating Frequently
    November 9, 2007
    Hi Al,
    seems like you're doing everything right. Just one more thing... are you admin on the account? As an admin you can create meetings, but to see the meeting in the outlook-addin list, you must be member of meeting hosts.

    Kay
    Known Participant
    November 15, 2007
    I am both the admin AND a host

    Thanks,

    Al
    richpb7Author
    Participant
    November 9, 2007
    Sorry - not being clear. I meant changing the URL within the Outlook plugin, not within Connect itself.
    November 9, 2007
    Unfortunately, you cannot change the room URL after the meeting has been created.

    Two options --
    1) re-create the room at the new URL
    2) move the wrong url to your templates folder and create a new room based off the template at the correct URL
    richpb7Author
    Participant
    November 9, 2007
    Thanks for replies folks - slight snag though, how can I change the room URL once I've entered it? I must be being really thick here - I can't see how to do it!
    Jorma_at_Knox
    Legend
    November 8, 2007
    Were you sure to put the / after the meeting room name in the URL?

    Jorma@RealEyes
    Jorma_at_Knox
    Legend
    October 29, 2007
    Kay,

    The / at the end of the meeting room URL fixed the problem. Thanks for helping us all through that!

    Jorma@RealEyes