Cisco Webex Latest Release - 43.2

Overview

Your Webex service will be upgraded to the Latest release 43.2 according to the Cisco Webex maintenance schedule.

Summary of the upcoming release is below. 

For users

In-meeting experience

• With Webex Scheduler, you can now change your meeting template after you have scheduled a meeting. Previously, your default template was used, and you couldn’t change it after the meeting was scheduled.
• Users are allowed to turn on or off the floating window when sharing. This enhancement allows users and administrators to hide the floating window with video thumbnails when sharing. To change at Meeting level, go to Settings >Sharing Content. At organisation level in Control Hub, please go to Meetings settings.
• Participant video quality can be dynamically adjusted. With this option enabled, the video resolution of meeting participants is increased to better fill the actual window resolution being used. This feature dynamically monitors the system and network performance to limit the improvements to what the system can handle. This setting can be enabled in Meeting Settings in the Layout tab by checking the box to enable.

Webinar experience

• Devices can join webinars as attendees. This update allows attendees to join webinars from a Webex cloud device. Attendees need to enter the webinar ID and password on the cloud device, then they can join the webinar as an attendee from the device. This update supports cloud devices that allow keyboard entry. For webinars that require attendees to sign in, the attendees can’t join using a device. Additionally, this update doesn't support webinar with webcast view for attendees.
• New polling activity report is available that records individual attendee's actions. This provides visibility into who has selected what for each polling question. This feature is available on a delayed release cycle. Check status.webex.com/maintenance to see when it’s available on your site.
• First name, Last name, and Role have been added to attendance report. The webinar attendance report now includes three additional columns - First name, Last name, and Role. The First name and Last name columns display the names that the attendees first joined the webinar with. If an attendee’s name is edited during the webinar, the edited name doesn’t appear in the report. Additionally, guest attendee’s First name and Last name aren’t reported. The Role column includes the attendee’s roles at the time the webinar ends. This feature supports webinar with webcast view. This feature is available on a delayed release cycle. Check status.webex.com/maintenance to see when it’s available on your site.
• Host knows how many attendees have submitted to a poll. In addition to the number of attendees who have submitted polls, the host also has visibility on how many attendees are actively editing their polls but haven't submitted them yet. The hosts can view the attendee’s editing status for the polls. With this visibility, a host can also remind their attendees that they must submit their polls.
• Simplifying joining via VoIP for attendee in Webex Webinars. Audio broadcast has been added to Webex Webinars to simplify the join experience for attendees. When a webinar enables VoIP-only (Voice over Internet Protocol) for audio connection type, attendees joining the event with VoIP are automatically connected and join the webinar directly on desktop (Windows and Mac), mobile (iOS and Android) and the browser app. The attendees don’t need to go through additional confirmation pages before they join.
• Source ID can be tracked before Webinar starts. This feature adds a Source ID column to the Manage Registration page, which captures which invitation platforms registered attendees are coming from. This way, hosts can view where their attendees are coming from before the webinar starts to know whether they should increase engagement on certain invitation platforms to attract more attendees.

Slido experience

• Theta Lake has been integrated with Slido. Theta Lake seamlessly integrates with your Slido platform to provide AI-based compliance and archiving with automated risk detection and review workflow of shared content. Theta Lake makes it easy to efficiently manage compliance while saving time and resources. It is a tool that helps you securely capture, supervise, and archive Slido’s live polls, Q&A, surveys, quizzes, and more.

Device enhancements

• You can now walk into a room and start an instant meeting on a Webex device. Once you start a meeting, you no longer need to struggle to invite guests to a meeting. In the invite pop-up, you can now invite any guests to a meeting. Scan the QR code, and then you can copy and share the meeting information with anyone. This feature isn’t available for Webex for Government. This feature is available on a delayed release cycle. Check status.webex.com/maintenance to see when it’s available on your site.

 

• Listen to Webex meeting recording on Apple CarPlay. In addition to joining a Webex meeting from the Apple CarPlay dashboard, you can connect your iPhones to the Apple CarPlay dashboard and listen to audio meeting recordings on the go. You can see a list of your meeting recordings and can tap on the recording title to start listening. It’s also possible to play/pause the recording and also forward or rewind it by 10 seconds.

For administrators

• Collaboration restrictions for Webex meetings in Control Hub: Support internal meeting settings at the organisation level. With this new update, the administrators can apply internal meeting settings to users using the organisation-level settings, which automatically apply to new users and users with no template.
• Abilities for IT administrators have been added to custom select virtual background for cross-org policy. With this new update, there’s the Enforce virtual backgrounds setting for all internal meetings, and two suboptions for administrators to allow more backgrounds that users can choose from when they start video:
  • Allow all admin-uploaded backgrounds: users can select between Webex's executive office background and admin-uploaded backgrounds.
  • Allow selected only: users can select between Webex's executive office background and selected admin-uploaded backgrounds.
• Prepopulate sign-in screen with current Microsoft Outlook email address. Webex Scheduler for Microsoft Outlook now automatically uses the current Outlook email address as the username when the Webex Scheduler signs into Webex. If the user is configured with SSO in Webex Control Hub, they can automatically be directed to their SSO sign-in page. If SSO isn’t enabled for the user, they are prompted to enter their Webex password.

*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 43.2 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:

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Latest Channel Guide for IT Managers

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