Cisco Webex Latest Release - 43.5

Overview

Your Webex service will be upgraded to the Latest release 43.5 according to the Cisco Webex maintenance schedule.

Summary of the upcoming release is below. 

For users

Webinar and webcast experience

• Attendees can easily share the join link to a webinar in webcast view by copying the link from the webinar in webcast view and pasting it so others can use it. Alternatively, they can share a QR code, which contains the link to the webinar in webcast view.

• When you add a webinar to a series, registration is turned on. This feature is disabled by default. To enable it, you need to open a ticket with your Service Desk. With the availability of this feature, webinar hosts don’t have to worry about losing registration data when adding a webinar to a series. If the webinar already had registration turned on, the webinar registration syncs with the series registration. This means that any registration data collected before the webinar was added to the series is retained. However, new registration data is only collected based on what the series collects.

• Webinar cohost can start and end a practice session. This is an effort to increase collaboration and take the load off the host during the webinar.

• Post-registration landing page for Webinars enables hosts to redirect their attendees to a landing page after they have completed registration for that webinar.

Slido experience

• New Slido Q&A for all Webex users makes it easier to access to the key features like Moderation and Participant replies. If you need to switch back to the old design, you can do so from the side menu.

• Poll results in Slido. Click the Present button to open Slido Present mode. This displays the poll results or Q&A and automatically screen share them to meeting participants. This feature is on a gradual roll-out beginning Mid-April for those Webex organizations that have Slido enabled.

For administrators

• Secure access to cloud recordings from corporate network. Administrators can choose to either restrict recording playback or download for the entire organization to prevent unauthorized data access. This prevents users from accessing interfaces including Webex App, Webex site, Webex Meetings mobile app, and other browsers. The corporate network can be defined using the existing network location setting within organization settings in Control Hub. To enable this feature, go to Define network location >Meetings settings where you can enable for a playback or a download to be accessible from the defined network. This feature is available on an independent release cycle. Check status.webex.com/maintenance to see when it’s available on your site.

 

 

• Webex Embedded Apps. When a user brings an app in a meeting, they can find an option to Share the app content along-with Open for All. Whether these options are presented to the end user or not depend on the app developers to invoke the corresponding APIs. The app developer can choose to show both the options or just one. Selecting Share the app content allows users to share the contents of the app with all the meeting participants. All meeting participants (including the users joining from Webex devices) can view this content, however, they won’t be able to collaborate on the content. Embedded Apps are not available in Webex for Government.

 

• Use default browser to login to Webex Scheduler for Internet Explorer Iframe. Webex Scheduler now uses the operating systems default browser to authenticate Webex Scheduler. Previously, iFrame was used, which is now blocked on some versions of Outlook.

 

• Settings override in collaboration restrictions in Control Hub. Administrator can turn on Settings Override and use settings templates to apply it to certain hosts. When these hosts start a meeting, participants joining this meeting adhere to the host's meeting policy and not the participants’ own policy. This is applicable only for internal meetings settings.

Go here for more details on what's new in the 43.5 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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