64-bit compatible Live Meeting and Outlook Conferencing Add-In released

I now have complete feature parity with a 64-bit OS (Windows 7) running 64-bit Office 2010 with LiveMeeting and Office Communicator, that I had with 32-bit Office 2007 not too long ago.

You can read about the changes for LiveMeeting here and the changes for the Conferencing Add-in here.

You can download the updated LiveMeeting client here and the updated Conferencing Add-in here.

For the add-in, you will have to choose 32-bit or 64-bit which depends on which flavor (32-bit or 64-bit) of Office you are using. The only 64-bit version of Office to date is the Office 2010 Technical Preview/Beta. Any version before that is 32-bit.

Anyone running a 32-bit OS is going to use 32-bit Office and will want the 32-bit version.

You can certainly run 32-bit Office on a 64-bit OS, and in this case, you would want the 32-bit Conferencing Add-in. One reason I can think of is if you want to keep using Xobni until a new version of that application comes out, or you have other 32-bit Office plugins that you use.

I am using 64-bit Office primarily for a relatively strange reason. Sure, running native applications is a good thing, but I am mainly interested in applications not "mucking around" with my Office configuration by adding in things covertly.

The biggest offender I can rattle off the top of my head is the plugin that iTunes installs into Outlook without asking. It has a notorious history of causing problems with delaying Outlook to shut down. I'm not picking on Apple, I just wish it was an optional component of iTunes.

Plus, I'm just a fan of 64-bit applications in general.

Note: One limitation of using Live Meeting on a 64-bit OS still remains - uploading Office documents other than PowerPoint to LiveMeeting and having LiveMeeting dynamically convert/scale the documents to each client's workspace. I generally don't use this feature so it is a non-issue for me.

The technical reason - a 64-bit Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) print driver does not exist.

Posted by Aaron Tiensivu in Exchange, Microsoft, OCS / LCS, Office at 17:24 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Awesome fine, Aaron! Looks like our install GPOs are going to need some extra filtering now just in case users have 64-bit office installed.

#1 bday on 2010-01-17 22:02 (Reply)

I removed Office 2003, Frontpage 2003, Office 2010 32-bit. Because they were 32 bit. If you want to use 64 bit Office2010 you must remove all of them. Because they are related which one to other in a way, SQL, ODBC...

And there are some 32 bit programs in Office 2010 64 bit already. But they will be 64 bit with Windows updates, if releases 64 bit version of these old programs.

I added your page to my favorites. Have a good day.

#1.1 levent on 2010-01-19 13:55 (Reply)

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