• Select Make Presenter to promote a participant to presenter.
• Select Make Attendee to demote a host to attendee.
The participant is now an attendee or presenter and can manage conference participants.
Enable and Disable Conference Announcements
When enabled, announcements play whenever a host mutes or unmutes the audience, locks or unlocks
the conference, removes a conference participant, or when a new person joins the conference.
Presenters can choose to enable or disable announcements during a Skype for Business conference call.
Procedure
» During a conference call, select Menu and do one of the following:
• Select Enable Announcements to enable announcements.
• Select Disable Announcements to disable announcements.
Remove Conference Participants
A presenter can remove any participant, excluding the conference initiator, from the conference call.
Procedure
» Select a participant and select Remove.
A notification displays on the participant's phone informing them that the host has removed them
from the conference.
Lock and Unlock a Conference Call
Presenters can lock a conference call to prevent people from joining the conference call without approval.
Anyone on the network can join an unlocked conference call automatically with the right conference dial-
in number and ID. With a locked conference call, a contact must wait for the main presenter, the person
who initiated the conference call, to admit them to the meeting.
Procedure
1. During an active conference, select Menu and select Lock.
The conference locks, and the main presenter must admit anyone that tries to join the call.
2. When you're ready to enable people to join the conference, select Menu and select Unlock.
The conference unlocks, and anyone can join the conference call.
Related Links
Send Contacts Active Conference Information on page 35
Admit or Deny Participants to a Locked Conference Call
When you lock a conference, you can decide whether to admit or deny any new participants to the call.
Any contacts that are trying to enter a locked conference call are displayed in the Participants list with an
alert icon on the main host’s phone, as shown next.
Conference Calls
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