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Ever got an invitation to one of those 'fancy' Microsoft Office Live Meetings, only to end up scratching your head how the heck could you access it from your Mac? Especially if you were running Mavericks? Well, apparently I am in the same boat now. (And yes, I know I could borrow someone else's Windows machine, or just join the meeting from one of our office phones. But it's not really about making our lives easier, is it?) Anyway, after some online digging around, it seems it might be doable after all. Get new Java First step everyone mentions is some specific Java configuration.
The problem is that my system doesn't seem to have any Java Preferences anywhere. To the rescue - quoting after discussion in Apple Support Communities: OS X no longer has the Java control panel included. If you want control over your Java settings download and install the latest Java version from the Oracle website, this will put a control panel in your system preferences. Java is also disabled by OS X when it has not been used in a while and/or is outdated, installing this latest version will fix that. Configure Java Go to Systems Preferences and then Java - this will open Java Control Panel in a separate window:. Under General tab, select setting Run applets: in their own process (some Mac computers do not have this option, like mine for that example). Go to the Advanced tab:.
Under Debugging section check the following: Enable tracing, Enable logging and Show applet lifecycle exceptions. Under Java Console section select Show Console. Under Mixed code (sandboxed vs. Trusted) security verification section select Enable - hide warning and run with protections. Restart Firefox Or whichever browser you are using for that.
Only if it is already open obviously. Go to your meeting URL In theory, you should have it in your invitation email, or in the event in your calendar (look for Join the meeting there) - but that's just the theory.
I mean, I have it too, all nicely blue and underlined, the only issue is that. It's not really a link. If that's your case as well, you can always go to and provide all your meeting details there - you should have them in your meeting invitation email too, in the Troubleshooting section. Participate in the meeting I'll see how this goes on Monday, when my meeting is scheduled to happen. I will keep my phone handy, just in case.
I used my Mac to access a live meeting months ago. Everything was fine.
Since then I upgraded my Java install and then it become difficult. Live Meeting has a so you can test compatibility in advance of the meeting. This blog post goes through what to do to get it working with Java 8. (Java 7 after a certain patch level has the same issues). Go to the and click “join meeting.” You’ll get one or two pop-ups similar to the following with the error message “Application Blocked By Java Security” and the detail “For security, applications must now meet the requirements for the High or Very High security settings, or be part of the Exception Site List, to be allowed to run”. Note the location. The number could change.
For me it was It would be nice if Microsoft – a large company – would sign their applet to make this unnecesary, but ok. System Preferences.
Java. Security. Click “edit site list”. Try the URL you noted (in my example).
Add It now looks like: At this point, restart your browser. If you just re-load the page, it will not pick up on the new settings. If you did it correctly, you will see one or two prompts of: If you try this in Safari, it will hang forever with the screen: According to, you need a 64 bit browser to use Java now. (Thanks for the error message Oracle. Failing silently is the way to go. Ok done with the sarcasm.) Safari and Chrome are 32 bit.
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Switching to Firefox. To start with, you get a misleading error about Firefox not being supported. Ignore it and click “enter meeting” anyway. Next you get to similar warnings to confirm you really want to run the applet. Click run twice: You may need to click the address bar to allow it to run the applet: At this point, you may get the blue hang screen we saw in Safari. This time, click the brick icon in the popup and allow. And finally – success.