3. Select the person you want to drop.
4. Press Drop soft key.
Dropping or Disconnecting the last participant from a conference
call
About this task
Depending on the configuration made by your administrator, you can disconnect the last
participant who joined the conference call. After you disconnect the last participant, you cannot
disconnect other participants. You can disconnect a participant again after you add another
participant to the conference call.
Before you begin
Ensure that the administrator enabled the feature.
Procedure
1. From the phone screen, select your active conference call.
You will see the More soft key.
2. Press More > Drop when the conference is active.
Result
The participant who was added last gets disconnected from the conference.
Related links
Making Conference Calls (video)
Putting a conference call on hold and resuming a call
About this task
Use this procedure to put a conference participant on hold, while other participants continue the
conference call.
Procedure
1. Press Hold soft key during a conference call.
2. Do one of the following:
• Press Resume.
• Select the call appearance to resume the conference call.
Muting a person on a conference call
You may be able to silence a person on a conference call using the Silence softkey. The individual
muting feature is not available on all systems. If you do not see Silence softkey when you choose
a person, you cannot mute that person.
Conferences
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