Cisco Webex Latest Release - 42.12

Overview

Your Webex service will be upgraded to the Latest release 42.12 according to the Cisco Webex maintenance schedule.

Summary of the upcoming release is below. 

For users

In-meeting experience

• The share control bar is now expandable and collapsible manually. When sharing the screen, sometimes the control bar gets in the way of content and the automatic opening and closing can be distracting. These changes allow the bar to be dragged left and right across the screen to see content behind. It’s also openable manually for better control of the menu.
• Polling to be managed by both the host and the cohost. Hosts and cohosts can both manage built-in polling (not Slido) during meetings and webinars. Presenters can't edit or manage the poll. Hosts and cohosts can edit polls at the same time and receive notifications for who is editing the poll as well as who has already made edits to the poll. This makes async collaboration much easier. This feature isn’t available in webcast view.
• Host's closed captions status is independent of host's Webex Assistant status. When the host turns on the Webex Assistant, it no longer automatically turns on the host's closed captions box; instead, the closed captions box's on or off status is independent and follows the same behavior that exists for attendees. That is, for all users, including hosts and attendees, the closed captions box's on or off status depends on what the user last selected.
• Easily control how your self-view displays. You can still choose to either share your self-view with others or show your self-view in a floating window. However, now you can also hide your self-view altogether, or only hide it when video is off.

Webinar experience

• Webinar hosts, cohosts, and panelists can now initiate a private chat with attendees using the chat panel or the participant list. They can now initiate communication with attendees proactively without requiring attendees to reach out to them first. The feature is available for the desktop apps and android users in 42.12. iOS customers can see this feature in 43.1.
• New webcast view experience. In this update, attendees can maximise the web browsers' space to view the webcast. In terms of limitations, as a host, you can view the total number of attendees. 
• Schedule a webinar from within a series. Series owners can now schedule a new webinar from within their series. The webinar series is pre-populated with the series name within which the webinar is being created.
• Manage registration in webinar series. Webinar series owners and collaborators can now manage the registration of individual webinars in their series through the series information page. As a webinar series owner, you can view how many people have registered for each webinar, including the number of pending, approved, and rejected registrants. You can also quickly respond to registrations from the series information page by clicking on the hyperlinked pending, approved, or rejected numbers listed by the webinar name, which redirects you to the registration page of that webinar.
• Webinar update. Webinar users now see a new component on the webinar scheduling page, which contains links to a webinars quick start guide as well as other help documents. This aids new webinar users in scheduling a webinar and informing them of all that webinars have to offer to enhance the pre-, post-, and in-webinar experience.

Slido experience

• Animated Wordcloud poll. Present and Participant modes now display an animated arrangement of the submissions to wordcloud polls.
• Emoji rating poll. You can now select your preference of stars or emojis for rating polls. You can find this setting in the Additional Poll settings.
• Multiple rooms supported. The possibility to change rooms in your Slido event is now supported within Webex integration.
• Webex typing indicator. We added a typing indicator to rating and multiple-choice polls, so you know the exact number of participants who are still typing their answers. Webex and Site Administrators have this feature.

Webex Meetings for iOS and Android

• Option to hide profile picture in the grid layout when self-video is off. Mobile users can now either show or hide their profile picture self-view in the grid layout when the self-video is off. By default, when the self-video is off, your profile picture with self-view is shown in the grid layout. When you turn on the Hide SelfView toggle during the meeting, your profile doesn’t appear in the grid view when your video is off. Only participants appear in the grid layout. This option can be used by accessing ..., more option -> Settings during the meeting.

 

• New redesigned meetings experience for Meetings on iPhone and iPad. The Webex Meetings app for iPhone and iPad is redesigned to provide a better experience for users. Starting December 1, 2022, Webex Meetings isn’t supported on iOS 11 and iOS 12. New users on iOS 11 and iOS 12 aren't able to download and use the Webex Meetings app. Existing Webex Meetings users on iOS 11 and iOS 12 aren’t going to get new app updates. It’s recommended to upgrade your device to iOS 13 to continue to receive new app updates. Existing Webex Meetings users on iOS 11 and iOS 12 can continue using their existing app.
  

 

 

For administrators

• Restrict meeting experiences using registry keys on your company devices. As an IT administrator, you can restrict your company devices to adhere to certain meeting experience based on your company policies. This can be done by pushing down a registry key across all your company-owned devices. For more information see, Collaboration restrictions for Webex Meetings in Control Hub. Today, if a user is signed in, they adhere to their company policies no matter the device they join the meeting from. This behavior changes with the registry key installation. Going forward, if the restricted computer or device has a registry key, the experience has the most restrictive policy. 
• Update sites with external users to Control Hub management. You can now update the site management from Site Administration to Control Hub for sites that have users in other Orgs. Until now, users on the site who belong to external Control Hub orgs had to be deactivated before you could update a site to be Control Hub managed.

*This feature is available on a delayed release cycle. Check status.webex.com/maintenance to see when it’s available on your site.

Go here for more details on what's new in the 42.12 Latest release.

Impact description and actions

• Review the above features and inform your users.
• Follow 'Next steps' below.

Next steps

Refer to the below resources for support through this upgrade process:

• Customer Monthly Update for 42.12 
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Latest Channel Guide for IT Managers

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