Abstract: A venue system being able to join a meeting offered by a meeting service for which the venue system itself is not native. Thus, the venue system might join into meetings offered by a variety of meeting services, to thereby take advantage of the substantial offerings of a venue system. Furthermore, the joining is done via a web application that is indeed native to the meeting service. Because the native web applications is offered by the same entity as the meeting services, the web applications are typically kept up-to-date to thereby take fuller advantage of newer offerings of the meeting services as the capabilities of the meeting services evolve. Accordingly, even without updating the venue system itself, the venue system is capable of offering more up-to-date services of a variety of different meeting services even though the venue service itself is not native to those various meeting services.

Abstract: An online meeting invitation may fail for a variety of reasons, and a meeting organizer or participant may wish to provide an alternative approach to transmit an invitation to the invitee before or during the meeting. Accordingly, embodiments are directed to mitigation of a failure of an online meeting invitation. A meeting invitation may be transmitted for presentation, to an invitee. In response to receipt of a failure notification to reach the invitee, the failure may be mitigated by identifying an email address associated with the meeting invitation and initiating one or more function calls to a communication service to have an invitation email generated and transmitted to the identified email address, where the invitation email includes the meeting invitation in a body of the imitation email. Alternatively, just the meeting invitation may be automatically forwarded to the email address upon identification of the email address.