Adds Slido and Q&A features in Webex along with a number of enhancements

Improvement(s)

? Integration of Slido Polling and Q&A Features in Webex

Desktop - Webex has integrated Slido into its new AppHub for users to access the great polling and Q&A features, including word clouds, quizzes, and ratings.

• Windows users may need to wait for WebView2 browser to download when using Slido for the first time (if not downloaded already). This can take a couple of minutes.

• This feature isn't available for Webex for Government.

• This feature will be available on an independent release cycle. Check status.webex.com/maintenance to see when it will be available on your site.

Mobile - Webex has integrated Slido for mobile users to respond to Slido polls and Q&A within the Webex Meetings app.

✔ ️ Layout Optimization Features

Scale or Hide the Filmstrip in the Stage Views - You can now scale the filmstrip in both the Stacked and Side-by-side views by simply dragging it to make the filmstrip bigger or going the other way to hide the filmstrip by lapsing it completely.

Limit Attendees View to Stage only When Syncing - Hosts and cohost will now have a new when syncing their stage to Lock attendee view on stage only, which hides the filmstrip from their view, so that they can only see what's on stage. This prevents attendees from being able to change to a different view, for use cases where you want complete control over who attendees can and can't see at any given time.

? Limit Attendees View to Stage only When Syncing

Hosts and cohost will now have a new when syncing their stage to Lock attendee view on stage only, which hides the filmstrip from their view, so that they can only see what's on stage. This prevents attendees from being able to change to a different view, for use cases where you want complete control over who attendees can and can't see at any given time.

? Reactions Flow Across Webex Rooms Devices and Apps

You can now have a more expressive and fun meeting experience with multiple reactions to choose from in a meeting. You'll now be able to send and receive reactions across cloud registered Webex Rooms devices and Webex apps.

? Users on standards-based SIP and H.323 video devices won't be able to see reactions in this update but worry not. We'll bring that soon!

? This feature isn't available for Webex for Government.

? See More People During Active Content Share on SIP-Based Webex Devices

With the unique integration between Webex meetings and Webex devices your in-meeting video and content experience just got better with SIP-based Webex Desk, Room, DX, SX, and MX-series devices.

Before this update, when content was shared in a meeting, you would see a single video stream with people at the top of the screen that had whitespace around it, making it hard to see who else is in the meeting.

Now, you'll see a video strip of up to six video participants displayed at the top of the screen for a more immersive video experience. This experience is also consistent with our devices when registered to the cloud.

? Updated Stack Layout Experience for On-Premises Registered Video Devices

We're updating the Stack layout experience for on-premises registered video devices to better align with the rest of the portfolio. Stack view is one where the active speaker is shown in a large pane with other people shown separately in smaller size.

In the Webex app and Webex devices registered to the cloud, this view has the not active speakers shown above the active speaker. However, on devices registered on-premises, this would have the not active speakers shown below the active speaker.

We're changing the experience for on-premises registered video devices to better align with the rest of the app and device experiences by moving the not active speaker above the active speaker. At the same time, the empty spot in between not active speakers is now removed.

? [Webex Events] Removal of Attendee Names in Reaction in Webex Events

Based on the feedback received during the beta program, attendees' names will now be hidden in a Webex Events (new) webinar on desktop and mobile. The ability to configure whether to show attendees' name will be available in a future update.

? [Webex Events] Webcast Scheduling - Enable or Disable Chat, Q&A, and Polling

With this update, webcast hosts have the to enable or disable polling, chat, and Q&A individually at the time of scheduling with Webex Events (new). Once the webcast has started, chat, Q&A, and polling s can't be changed.

? [Webex Events] Customize Registration Rules in a Meeting or a Webex Event

The host can now customize the auto-approval rules when attendees register for a meeting or a Webex Event (new) for both webinar and webcast modes.

When a meeting or an event requires registration, a list of auto-approve or auto-reject rules can be created and applied to any new registrants who meet these criteria.

? Notes: The rules won't be retroactively applied to existing registrants.

For example, the host can,

• Auto approve all registrants from a specific company email domain.

• Auto reject all registrants from one or more specific email domain(s).

• Auto accept VIP registrants who match specific email addresses and manually approve the rest of the registrants.

? [Join Meeting Join Experience] Enhancements to the Guest Join Experience

This feature enhances the join experience for a guest user. We've streamlined the guest join flow for a user when they click a to join a meeting.

The key changes are:

For first-time users, visual elements and cues are added to create a seamless join experience.

Across platforms authentication flow enhancements are made to streamline sign in experience.

To ease the meeting join experience, sign in or guest join error handling and messaging has been added.

To ensure that users don't have to enter their details again, we offer the to select Remember me.

? Note(s): This feature will be available on a delayed release cycle. Check status.webex.com/maintenance to see when it will be available on your site.

? [Pre-Meeting Experience] Meeting Template Improvements

Made some changes for meeting templates in the Webex Meetings scheduler.

When you edit a scheduled meeting, you will no longer see the default meeting template selected in the drop-down list. This avoids potential confusion if you were not using the default template.

When you're scheduling a Personal Conference meeting, the meeting templates drop-down list will now appear. This makes it easier if you want to a meeting template.

While scheduling a meeting, when you a meeting template that was customized by you or the site administrator, that template's settings will now be used, instead of what you've set in Preferences. However, if a customized meeting template feature isn't available to your site users, then your in Preferences will be used.

? [In-Meeting Experience] Scale or Hide the Filmstrip in the Stage Views

You can now scale the filmstrip in both the Stacked and Side-by-side views by simply dragging it to make the filmstrip bigger or going the other way to hide the filmstrip by lapsing it completely.

? [In-Meeting Experience] Limit Attendees View to Stage only When Syncing

Hosts and cohost will now have a new when syncing their stage to Lock attendee view on stage only, which hides the filmstrip from their view, so that they can only see what's on stage. This prevents attendees from being able to change to a different view, for use cases where you want complete control over who attendees can and can't see at any given time.

? [In-Meeting Experience] Stop Syncing Directly from the Stage

We've added a convenient Stop button to the sync bar when syncing your stage, making it easier to stop syncing instead of having to go back into the layout menu.

? [In-Meeting Experience] Return to Previous View When Host Stops Syncing

Now, as a meeting participant, if the host or cohost stops syncing their stage, you'll be returned to your previous view. For example, if you were in Grid View, and the host starts syncing their stage, your view will automatically switch to the Stack view. If the host stops synching their stage, you'll return to Grid view.

? [In-Meeting Experience] Optimized the Filmstrip Default Size for High-Resolution Displays

We've also adjusted the default filmstrip size for a more balanced view on high-resolution displays.

? [In-Meeting Experience] Reordered the "More Options" Menu in the Video Thumbnails

We've reordered the ions in the menu when clicking on "More s" in the video thumbnails, putting the most common s, first.

? [In-Meeting Experience] Web App: Scale the Filmstrip in Stack View

Web app users can now scale the filmstrip in the Stack view. Like the Side-by-side view, simply drag to make the filmstrip bigger or smaller.

? [In-Meeting Experience] Web App: Scale the Filmstrip in Stack View

Web app users can now scale the filmstrip in the Stack view. Like the Side-by-side view, simply drag to make the filmstrip bigger or smaller.

? [Media Enhancements] Intel Hardware Encoder for Sharing in Windows

? Note: This feature is available in the 41.6 update, but was added after the initial June 2021 (41.6) features were communicated.

This update includes a new advanced video setting for Windows apps. Hardware acceleration for sharing to reduce the load on the main system processor, when possible, by off-loading share processing to any available dedicated hardware.

? Note: Hardware acceleration is only supported with Intel graphics processing units (GPUs). Nvidia and AMD GPUs are not supported.

When Hardware acceleration for sharing is enabled, the system will only choose to encode share content with codecs that are natively supported by the hardware the client is running one. This will effectively disable support for any newer software codecs such as AV1.

1080p Video Resolution for All Video Devices

Video devices joining Webex meetings will now have up to 1080p video resolution with up to 6 Mbps bandwidth for the best possible video quality.

Webex Rooms devices registered to the cloud were already enjoying 1080p video. With this release, we're expanding this capability to all standards-based SIP and H.323 devices that support 1080p video at 30 frames per second. Those SIP and H.323 devices were only able to get 720p video prior to this update.

? This feature will be available on an independent release cycle. Check status.webex.com/maintenance to see when it will be available on your site.

? [Device Enhancements] Reactions Flow Across Webex Rooms Devices and Apps

You can now have a more expressive and fun meeting experience with multiple reactions to choose from in a meeting.

You can now have a more expressive and fun meeting experience with multiple reactions to choose from in a meeting.

? Note: This feature isn't available for Webex for Government.

✔ ️ [Device Enhancements] See More People During Active Content Share on SIP-Based Webex Devices

With the unique integration between Webex meetings and Webex devices your in-meeting video and content experience just got better with SIP-based Webex Desk, Room, DX, SX, and MX-series devices.

? [Device Enhancements] Updated Stack Layout Experience for On-Premises Registered Video Devices

We're updating the Stack layout experience for on-premises registered video devices to better align with the rest of the portfolio

? [Administrator Experience] Global Distributed Meetings (GDM) Updates

In this update, we're enabling Global Distributed Meetings (GDM) for SIP calls made into Webex Meetings. In order for us to support GDM for these standard devices and clients, we're using a GeoDNS based on MaxMind's GeoIP database. To ensure that we connect your SIP clients and video devices to the best Webex Media Node, you should verify that all of your external IP addresses that our cloud service will see have the correct country code associated with them. This includes any Expressways or other SBCs that you concentrate outbound SIP traffic through or if you have any devices directly connected to the Internet. If the country code for these IP addresses is incorrect, you need to submit a correction to MaxMind. For more information, see thehelp article for the full details on how to test your addresses and how to submit any required reports to MaxMind

? [Administrator Experience] Allow Compliance Officers to Delete Meeting Recordings

Compliance Officers, in addition to the meeting hosts, can now remove meeting recordings for any of their site users using API. This ensures adherence to corporate policies when the recordings contain material that shouldn't be distributed. Deleted recordings are still available under the retention policy (soft delete) in the eDiscovery tool.

? [Administrator Experience] Disable Callback to Certain Countries

Site administrators in Webex Site Administration and Webex Control Hub now have the ability to turn off telephony callback for any countries they choose from the Audio Settings page. If there are countries you don't do business with, or if you want to prevent fraudulent or suspicious calls to your meetings from certain countries or regions, you can uncheck them from the Webex Allowed Callback Countries list. For more information, see Disable Callback to Certain Countries

? [Administrator Experience] People Insights Managed in Control Hub

People Insights profiles will no longer be managed at the site level in Webex Site Administration and Webex Control Hub. Instead, IT administrators can configure People Insights s at the org level in Control Hub to easily configure People Insights for all their meeting sites. The existing site settings in Site Administration and relative settings in Control Hub are disabled, but we've added a to Control Hub for configuration.

? [Webex Meetings VSI] Provide VMWare Support for ThinPro 7.1.x

Currently VMWare support is available only for Windows Thin Clients. With this update, VDI support will be available for Linux.

? [Webex Meetings Integration] Integration of Slido Polling and Q&A Features in Webex

Webex has integrated Slido into its new AppHub for users to access the great polling and Q&A features, including word clouds, quizzes, and ratings.

? [Webex Meetings Integration] Webex Meetings List Available in Microsoft Teams Using a Hybrid or On- Premises Microsoft Exchange Mailbox

No more jumping back and forth between Microsoft Teams and your Webex Meetings desktop app just to see your meetings list. You can now see all your meetings list in Microsoft Teams.

We already have a meetings list in Microsoft Teams for cloud Microsoft Exchange. This is new for customers that have on-premises or hybrid Microsoft Exchange.

✔ ️ [Webex Meetings for iOS and Android] Enhancements to the Guest Join Experience

This feature enhances the join experience for a guest user. Similar to desktop, mobile app will also streamline the guest join flow for a user when they click a to join a meeting.

✔ ️ [Webex Meetings for iOS and Android] Slido Integrated into Webex Meetings

Webex has integrated Slido for mobile users to respond to Slido polls and Q&A within the Webex Meetings app.

? Note: This feature will be available on an independent release cycle. Checkstatus.webex.com/maintenance to see when it will be available on your site.

[Webex Meetings for iOS] Sync the Stage from Mobile

Similar to desktop, hosts and cohosts on the iOS mobile app can customize the stage by dragging a participant's video on the stage area and syncing the stage for everyone in the meeting to see.