
WEBEX TEAMS UPDATE HOW TO
If you were using the Webex Productivity Tools in Outlook, you will need to upgrade to the new Webex Scheduler instructions on how to do this are available in ITSSC.If your calendar does not appear in the Webex application, you need to connect your Exchange calendar to Webex by either using the button provided on the calendar tab or by authorizing your calendar on the Rensselaer Webex site under Preferences.You can either provide someone with your personal room link, or you can search for any Rensselaer community Webex user and start a meeting with them. Clicking that will show your personal room and your calendar, just as it previously appeared in the Meetings application. When you open the main Webex application, you should see a calendar icon on the left.Your Meetings client will be uninstalled, and you will be redirected to the new Calendar and Meetings section of the Webex application. To manually update, open Webex Meetings and check for Updates.
WEBEX TEAMS UPDATE UPDATE
If you still have Webex Meetings installed, the update may not have automatically applied.Post-update, there are a few important items of note. Microsoft Teams Rooms has had a bit of an update.The Webex update to remove Meetings and combine functionality into the primary Webex desktop app (formerly Webex Teams) has been completed. Which means it has a few new tricks up its sleeve. The new version is 4.5.35.0 and it is “rolling out” now. Search and call federated users (tenant) from Teams Room.Adjustable default volume setting for conferencing and default speaker.Virtual raise hands support for attendee and controls for presenter.Switch to video gallery layout even when content is present.Teams Admin Center enablement and auto-enrollment.Join Cisco Webex meetings from Teams Rooms with direct guest join.What this means is that within a few days, everyone with auto update turned on should get it. You can make an MTR leave a meeting automatically after everyone else has left. This means you can just get up and go and don’t have to press anything to leave the meeting. Useful in the context of being Covid-19 safe. Join a Webex meeting directly from your MTR.īut also means you can all just get up and leave the room once the meeting has finished and the far end leaves. That thing Microsoft announced ages ago is finally here. If you have a customer/supplier that only uses Webex meetings? No problem. When you get the invite, just forward it to your room. Schedule a Webex meeting and invite the room directly. Set-CalendarProcessing -Identity -ProcessExternalMeetingMessages $true Your room account would need to be set to accept external meeting requests. Or forward an invitation you’ve received to your room. This also requires that your room calendar doesn’t rewrite invitations. If you use Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Safe Links you need to create a “do not rewrite” list or third-party URL rewrite exception list, including one for *.*. You also need to ensure you set Delete Comments and Delete Subject to false in calendar processing. Setting DeleteComments and DeleteSubject to false is critical and ensures that your meeting invitation has a “Join” button as it preserves any text in the message body of incoming meeting requests. Set-CalendarProcessing -Identity -RemovePrivateProperty $false -DeleteSubject $false -DeleteComments $falseįor more information on how to set up a mailbox for Microsoft Teams Rooms properly, you can read my post here. If your room gets the appointment, it should auto accept (again assuming you have Auto Accepte enabled), and shor up in the calendar and on the touch screen. You can see below that the meeing is displayed and that has teh Cisco Webex logo in the corner. When it’s time to start the meeting, the display changes and the meeting join tile adopts “Cisco colours”. The Webex meeting organizer/host needs to join the meeting before the room can join. Once they have joined, tap the join button on the MTR. On the left is the touch screen with meeting controls. On the right is the in-room display, also with meeting controls. And yes, the meeting controls work (assuming you have a touch screen). You can also toggle to show the meeting on the touch screen. You can also share into the meeting from Webex This brings the video to the touch screen as well as the in-room display.
