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Install Netmeeting on Vista

Posted on July 13th, 2007 AndyParkes 8 comments

We have used Netmeeting (Remote Desktop Sharing) in some support situations in the past but it’s no longer installed with Vista

I found this hotfix that allows you to install Netmeeting 3.02 on a Vista PC

However, What you can’t do is setup Remote Desktop Sharing on that Vista PC. You can still connect to older versions of Netmeeting (e.g XP) though

Microsoft have replaced Netmeeting with Windows Meeting Space but with Remote Desktop and Remote Assistance (which is amazing with SBS!) still being my preferred remote support options this isn’t something i’m too worried about

SBS
8 Responses to “Install Netmeeting on Vista”
1. Suzanne Rickard October 24th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
  
  Hi,
  
  I’m not sure I’ve come to the right place… I have Vista home premuim on my home computer. I do work from home and occassionaly have the need to do live web cast trainings from my home computer. I did download Netmeeting on my computer and found out that my “sharing” option is not available (grayed out). So is “sharing from desktop”. What do you suggest?
  
  Suzanne
2. andyparkes October 24th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
  
  Hi Suzanne
  
  You wont be able to use Netmeeting on vista for sharing your desktop or applications i’m afraid.
  
  As far as i’m aware there isn’t a native tool for Vista that covers this
  
  Had quick look and found this post
  
  http://www.kolabora.com/news/2006/10/05/screen_sharing_tools_and_technology.htm
  
  Hope it is of some help?
3. glenn October 29th, 2007 at 10:41 am
  
  hi
  
  i installed the patch and put netmeeting on my vista
  the webcam does not work
  it says at the begining which cam do i want to use but in the main screen no cam
  is this a problem on vista?
  
  glenn
4. andyparkes October 29th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
  
  Difficult to say Glen
  
  The Microsoft article i mentioned states this
  
  “Cameras that have Windows Vista drivers may be unable to send video through NetMeeting 3.02. If a camera that has Windows Vista drivers installed does not send video through NetMeeting 3.02, you may have to install the following camera:
  Microsoft LifeCam VX 6000
  This camera has been tested by using Windows Vista drivers.”
5. BRaen February 28th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
  
  Hi,
  I try to installing NetMeeting in Vista. Windows return error message “RunDll Error!!!”.
  So bad.
6. CHETAN April 19th, 2008 at 10:03 am
  
  Thanks
7. Marco September 15th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
  
  NetMeeting was useful for H323 video-communication… 3 Italia (www.tre.it) uses NetMeeting to make video-calls from your mobile phone to a webcam
8. pradeepmoses October 18th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
  
  Netmeeting works only within LAN .If u like to use netmeeting over internet u can try this software:
  http://www.lanoninternet.com
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