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Meet-Me Conference

A Meet-Me room is a conference bridge that outlives any single call: it has a room number and, usually, a PIN. People dial in whenever they need it and the room is waiting. Administrators create the rooms; whoever is running the meeting watches and controls it from the live roster.


Join a room — the participant's side

Everything after this section is about running rooms. This one is about being in one: somebody gave you a number and a time, and you need to get in.

You dial in from your softphone, the same way you place any other call (see Handling Calls). You do not need the Meet-Me Rooms page — that page belongs to the people who create rooms. Dialling is the only way into a meeting.

What you will be asked

What answers you is a call flow. Depending on how it was set up it either asks which room you want, or it is pinned to a single room and goes straight to the PIN. You get a limited number of attempts, and the prompt gives up if you wait too long between digits — if that happens, just dial again.

PromptWhat it wants
No PIN askedThe room has open entry — the room number alone is enough.
Participant PINThe everyday PIN. It gets you into the meeting.
Moderator PINA different PIN that does more: it starts the meeting for everyone who is waiting, and it gets you in even when the room is locked.

Whoever dials in with the moderator PIN is the moderator — there is no separate setting that makes someone one.

What you will hear once you are in

What you hearWhat it means
MusicYou are early. The room is set to wait for the moderator and the meeting has not started yet. The music stops the moment a moderator dials in.
A tone as you arriveThe room announces joins and leaves; you will hear one for everybody who arrives after you too.
Nobody reacts when you speakThe room is set to join muted. Press *6 to unmute yourself.
You can be muted with nothing on screen to tell you

The roster the moderator is watching does not show who is muted — it offers the controls, it does not report the state. So nobody is going to notice for you. If people are not responding, assume you are muted and press *6.

When you cannot get in

Every refusal is its own separate outcome, and what you are told says which:

What you are toldWhat actually happenedWhat to do
Wrong PINThe PIN did not match and your attempts ran out.Check the digits — the participant and moderator PINs are different numbers.
No such roomNothing exists on that number, or the room is disabled.Confirm the number with whoever invited you.
Room lockedThe meeting locked when it started, or the moderator locked it mid-meeting.Only the moderator PIN gets past a lock; ask to be let in.
Room fullThe room reached its own participant limit.Somebody has to leave before you can join.
No licensed portsNothing to do with this room — the whole account has run out of simultaneous conference ports.Tell your administrator. This one is bought, not configured.
No inputYou did not press anything in time.Dial again and answer the prompts.

While the meeting is running

The moderator can mute you, unmute you, or remove you from the room, and can mute everyone at once. End room stops the meeting immediately and drops everybody — but it does not delete the room, so you can dial straight back in.

If the room is set to end when the moderator leaves, the meeting is over the moment they hang up, finished or not.

The meeting may be recorded

A room can be set to record itself. Recording starts with the first participant, and the meeting arrives in Call Records with its audio and transcript attached.