Welcome to the Exchange Conferencing Service [This information is currently under development] Welcome to Exchange Conferencing Service, Microsoft’s newest platform for interactive, online collaboration for the virtual team. With Conferencing Service, you can schedule meetings to bring together a group of geographically dispersed coworkers, allowing everyone to work together in real time. Conferencing Service integrates different online meeting technologies, such as data and video conferencing, to provide a consistent and unified conference experience.

| Tip To see a list of publicly accessible conferences taking place right now, click Show me the public conferences currently in session in the left pane.

Each meeting technology is supplied by a conference technology provider. For example, Microsoft Data Conferencing Service is a technology provider supplied with Exchange Conferencing Service. Data conferencing technology allows you to chat and share files or applications with colleagues, customers, and friends anywhere in the world.

Conferencing Service also allows you to add and configure additional conference technologies, such as video and telephony. When used together, these technologies create a fully collaborative online experience.