Cisco Webex Latest Release - 43.6

Overview

Your Webex service will be upgraded to the Latest release 43.6 according to the Cisco Webex maintenance schedule.

Summary of the upcoming release is below. 

For users

Pre-meeting experience

• Webex site user experience improvements have been implemented. The Webex site has an updated look and feel:
  • simplified navigation
  • updated look and feel
  • all existing Meetings 'site' features supported
  • dark mode support coming in a later update.

   Other features are now located in ‘More Features’ which can be accessed by clicking on your profile picture. The default background colour is now grey. If you have applied a custom banner or logo to your site, you can update the background colour from white to transparent.

• Improved first-time join meeting flow for Mac. The experience has been improved for users downloading Webex Meetings for the first time on Mac to join a meeting​.
  • The duplicate permission request to access files in the Downloads folder​ has been removed.
  • The redundant permission explanation text pop-up on the preview window​ has been removed.
  • Permission is requested for screen sharing only when user chooses to share in-meeting.

Webinar and webcast experience

• Make series contributors cohosts for webinars in the series. To increase collaboration, webinar series contributors can allow the other contributors in the series, cohost access to their webinars. If contributors are added or removed from the series, their cohost access changes accordingly.
• Webinar options aligned in the scheduling page and the Webex App.* Webinar hosts can edit all webinar options and participants privileges in the scheduling page before the webinar begins. You can set preferences before your webinar begins so you don't have to spend time during your webinar setting them. For example, you can enable chat from the scheduling page, the same way you can enable it during the webinar.
• Allow attendees to join webcasts on two devices at once. Registered attendees can now easily rejoin a webcast using the same email address up to two times. This also means attendees can join a webcast on two devices. Previously, joining only once per registered email or device was supported.
• Audio-only mode enabled for webinars with webcast view. If your network bandwidth can't support streaming 360p video, webinars in webcast view automatically switch to audio-only mode. You can also choose audio-only mode. While in audio-only mode, you only hear the webinar in webcast view audio, which is useful if you're travelling and move between wireless networks. You can also manually select this mode in the player user interface. This mode only plays the audio from a webcast and is targeted for users in the car, moving between Wi-Fi and cellular networks or bandwidth-constrained environments. This feature isn’t available for Webex for Government.
• Host and cohost to have the same privileges when scheduling. To increase collaboration between hosts and cohosts, cohosts now have the same privileges as the host on the webinar scheduling page, if the cohost has a webinar licence. Cohosts can’t change the webinar template selected by the host or delete the webinar. They can only access their own library of custom registration questions.
• Webcast view is now enabled for all webinar licences. Webinars with webcast view previously required a Webinar 3000 user licence or higher. With the 43.6 release, webinar with webcast view is available for any webinar licences. This feature isn’t available for Webex for Government.
• HTML support available for webinar registration questions. With HTML support, webinar hosts can now customise the format of registration questions by inserting bold text, hyperlinks, acknowledgements and buttons.
• HTML support available for webinar series description. With HTML support, webinar series owners can customise the format of the series description by inserting bold text, hyperlinks, acknowledgments and buttons.

Slido experience

• Slido available with Microsoft Teams. Customers who have Slido from Meetings User, can now use Slido in Microsoft Teams. This Login option is now available. Teams now open a browser tab so if you’ve previously used Slido in your browser or you’ve authenticated in your identity provider (idP), you don’t have to do it again because the browser remembers. All this now works on mobile, desktop, and in the web app.

For administrators

• Audible warning for recordings to be turned on for new sites. By default, audible warning for recording is turned on for new sites unless turned off by administrators in site administration.
• Webex Scheduler supports Shared Mailbox scenario. When you open Webex Scheduler to add the meeting, it might not allow this behaviour . If you add M365 authorization in Control Hub and Site Administration, the backend add-in service calls the Graph API to bind the shared mailbox with the Webex account, automatically if possible. If you don't delegate permission on Webex, the Scheduler shows the Schedule for drop-down list to allow the creator to choose the host manually.
• Internal label for meeting participants. The internal label for meeting participants is now based on an organisation membership. Users who belong to the Control Hub organisation that owns the site get the internal label. This works for devices as well. Custom labels, if configured for SSO sites managed in Site Administration, work as they did before (no change).
• Sites with required user fields can now update to Control Hub.* The ability to mark user profile fields as required for Control Hub organisations, along with new user profile fields such as alternate phone 1 and 2 for Control Hub users is currently in Beta testing.
• Sites with required tracking codes can now update to Control Hub. The equivalent of required tracking codes for hosts in Control Hub sites is based on mapping tracking codes to user attributes, including organisation-specific custom user attributes. This capability is currently in Beta testing.

*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 43.6 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:

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Latest Channel Guide for IT Managers

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