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About envite

envite is a universal collaboration platform that enables seamless messaging and video communications between disparate business applications including Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Cisco Webex and Zoom etc.

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With envite, users can securely enable cross-application collaboration with other messaging and video apps to:

• Create direct & group messaging channels with their partners, vendors & customers who are using a different messaging application.

• Add audio and video for meetings to communicate on-demand.

• Continue using their preferred messaging client without switching to another messaging platform.

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Zoom as the preferred UC provider for envite users

envite simplifies the on-demand Zoom video meetings link creation within users direct and group messaging rooms/channels by typing the “call” or “meet” commands.   envite users can now enjoy the benefits of Zoom features below without leaving their preferred messaging application.

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• Initiate Zoom video meetings

• Schedule Zoom video meetings

• List upcoming and ended meetings

• Meeting reminders

• Meeting summary

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Zoom Instant meeting link generation in envite channel

Step 1: To get started, users should have one of the following messaging applications configured for envite:

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• Slack

• Microsoft Teams

• Cisco Webex  

 

Example: In this scenerio there are 3 users:

1. User 1-Jane ( jane.enslack@outlook.com) is using Slack,

2. User-2 -Alan (alan.enwebex@outlook.com) is using Cisco Webex  

3. User-3 -Bob  (bob@enviteplus.onmicrosoft.com) is using Microsoft Teams  

 

→ All 3 users have installed the envite for Zoom app from  Zoom App Marketplace.

Learn more: How to install envite for Zoom.

 

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Bob-Microsoft Teams

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Step 2: All three users have created a direct channels and group channel (groupZoomTest) between them.

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• Slack User Jane is logged into her messaging application and navigates to the direct channel created through envite with Alan who is using Cisco Webex, and types the “call” command.

• envite creates an instant Zoom meeting link using the tokens captured for the Slack user Jane and posts the link to a video meeting in the envite direct channel for both users.

 

• Slack User Jane (jane.enslack@outlook.com)

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• Cisco Webex user Alan (alan.enwebex@outlook.com)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Both users click on the “Join call” button to launch and join the Zoom meeting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

​Similarly, a user from any messaging platform can navigate to the direct channel created by envite to initiate an instant Zoom meeting by typing the “call” or “meet” command.

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Zoom Instant meeting for envite’s group rooms

 

• All three users, Alan (Cisco Webex), Jane(Slack), and Bob (MSTeams), have created a group channel between them called “groupZoomTest”.

• In this example Alan, the Cisco Webex user initiates the call by typing the “call” or “meet” command in the group channel.

• In general, a user can navigate to the group room, created by envite, and initiate a Zoom video meeting by typing the “call” or “meet” command in the group channel with the group members.

• All of the group members will receive a link/card to join the Zoom meeting.

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All of the 3 users have now joined the Zoom meeting using the call link in the group channel.