For example, while Ken Myer is presenting his slide show, Pilar Ackerman can look at any slide she wants to, and without affecting Ken's presentation.

Users with the appropriate privileges to scroll through a PowerPoint presentation independent of the presentation itself. That's because Lync Server 2013 uses standard DHTML and JavaScript to broadcast PowerPoint presentations instead of customized DHTML and Silverlight. Higher-resolution displays and better support for PowerPoint capabilities, such as animations, slide transitions, and embedded video.Īdditional mobile devices to access these presentations. Among other advantages, this new approach enables: To help address these issues, and to improve the overall experience of users presenting or viewing PowerPoint presentations, Lync Server 2013 employs Office Web Apps and the Office Web Apps Server to handle PowerPoint presentations.

The PowerPoint Viewer and the DHTML/Silverlight approach do not support all of the features (such slide transitions and embedded video) that are found in the more recent editions of PowerPoint. Many mobile devices (including some of the more popular mobile phones) do not support Silverlight. The embedded PowerPoint Viewer (which provided the optimal viewing experience) is only available on the Windows platform. Provides architectural design guidance for planning and deployment of Lync Server 2013. Although generally effective, this approach did have some limitations: For users running Lync Web App, PowerPoint presentations were converted to dynamic HTML files then viewed using a combination of those customized DHTML files and Silverlight. For users running Lync 2010, PowerPoint presentations were displayed using the PowerPoint 97-2003 format and were viewed using an embedded copy of the PowerPoint viewer. In Lync 2010 PowerPoint presentations were viewed in one of two ways.

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