Cisco Webex Latest Release - 42.6

Overview

Your Webex service will be upgraded to the Latest release 42.6 according to the Cisco Webex maintenance schedule.

Summary of the upcoming release is below. 

For users

Webex Pre-Meeting Experience

• This is the last release for Productivity Tools. Microsoft Outlook customers who wish to schedule Webex meetings from Microsoft Outlook must move to the Webex Scheduler add-in. For more information on migrating to the Cisco Webex Scheduler add-in, please click here.
• Support is introduced for Webinar series. Webinar series brings a simple registration experience where registrants can select and register for multiple webinars at once. Webinar series owners can add webinars to a series. They can invite their team to a series as contributors. Contributors can also add their webinars to a series and manage the series. All webinars in the series will use the same registration form. The webinar owners manage registration approval for the webinars that they own.
• There is an update to the error message during meeting start or join. To ensure you have a good support experience when faced with join meeting issues, a few more details are added to the error message dialogs shown to the user. With the next update, you can see a meaningful high-level description of the error a user has run into. You also have the option to Send Problem Report to Cisco for the issue. You can share these details including the error code when logging a TAC case.
• Add Webex to a single meeting in an existing recurring meeting using Google add-on. Users can now add Webex Meetings to a single instance of an existing series of Google events.
• Single Sign On (SSO) for Webex Scheduler Outlook add-in Users no longer need to re-authenticate with their Microsoft Outlook credentials, which is currently asked for when the add-in is invoked for the first time. This only works for cloud-based and administrator authorized users and not for on-premises or individual authorization.

Webex In-Meeting Experience

• Allow Embedded Apps to be opened in stage view. Third-party apps opened in Webex Meetings can now be opened in stage, not just in the Apps panel. Some apps are better used in full screen so now users can open those apps in stage view.
• Grid view in Meetings, Webinars, and Events (classic) can now support up to 81 simultaneous videos per page. This gives you the ability to see even more thumbnail videos in large meetings. The actual number of videos may be limited by your screen resolution or window size. This feature is available on a delayed release cycle. Check status.webex.com/maintenance to see when it’s available on your site.
• Use external USB camera or built-in camera to share content. As a Windows and Mac user, you can share your built-in or external camera content as if you are sharing your screen during a meeting or webinar. Attendees can view what you see and share using the camera in full screen mode and also view self-video of the participant who is sharing camera content. If users share built-in camera as content sharing source, self-video continues to work. This feature is available on a delayed release cycle. Check status.webex.com/maintenance to see when it’s available on your site.
• Share content window can be resized from now on. You can now scale the Share content window to make it bigger. This makes it easier to see more of the windows you have open without having to scroll.
• Redesigned quiz in Webex sidebar as default experience is available in the New Look of the Slido Integration. This will become the default version for your hosts. Currently, hosts can still switch back to the old version if required.
• A someone is typing indication has been added in Polls. This is helpful for presenters to see if everyone is done submitting their responses.
• Participant Privacy in Slido. This new feature allows hosts to set whether participants are anonymous or named during Slido events. You can lock the setting or allow your participants to choose which option they want.

Webex Meetings for iOS and Android

• The media quality indicator center has been updated. Mobile users can now view their network quality status in the indicator center during a meeting.

For administrators

• IT Administrators can enable Embedded Apps for a group of users. To do this, login to Control Hub, navigate to the Apps > Embedded Apps. Then choose an app and enable it for the selected groups. This capability requires that the Control Hub feature toggle be enabled. The Control Hub feature toggle will be available by mid-June. This feature is on an independent release schedule.

Webex Meetings APIs

• Webhooks API when meeting transcripts are ready helps customers send emails to meeting participants to let them know when the transcript is ready.

Webex for Government

• Support is added to the following features that are currently available. Identify if you are connected to a Webex for Government meeting: participants connecting to a meeting hosted by Webex for Government can now easily tell what meeting platform they are connected to.

Go here for more details on what's new in the 42.6 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 42.6
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Latest Channel Guide for IT Managers

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