Feature Highlights for Webex Meetings WBS39.5 to WBS40.6 Updates-Webex
Learn about the most important new features that will be accessible after upgrading to the 40.6 slow channel.
Blur Video Background on Mac
When you join a video conversation on a Mac using the Webex Meetings desktop app—which will soon also be available for users of Windows computers—distracting backgrounds in the background will be blurred. Find out more about it right here.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Support
- Citrix and VMWare both provide support.
- Thin clients that run on Windows and Linux
New Webex Assistant for Webex Meetings
Utilizing the Webex Meetings App will allow you to take advantage of automatic note-taking, live transcription, and post-meeting follow-ups. Find out more about it right here.
Share Recordings with Slack
Slack now allows hosts who have previously recorded a meeting to share the recording with users who are not currently in their channel. Find out more about it right here.
New Education Session Types
The many sorts of education sessions give teachers the ability to manage their classes in a secure manner and reduce the number of disturbances that occur throughout their various types of meetings, events, and training sessions. Find out more about it right here.The many sorts of education sessions give teachers the ability to manage their classes in a secure manner and reduce the number of disturbances that occur throughout their various types of meetings, events, and training sessions. Find out more about it right here.
More Ways to Control Personal Room Meetings
Now you may use a keypad and DTMF commands to handle Personal Rooms as well as standard meetings.
Easier Joining from Video Devices
Make use of a short URL (Meeting ID@webex.com) to enter meetings from a video device more quickly, hence offering a more pleasant experience while attending meetings. Only Site Administrators will be able to use this feature.
Quickly See Who’s in the Room
Multiple users are now able to pair to a single video device, making it simpler to see on the desktop app who is physically present in the same space. You can find certain participants with the aid of the new search box.
Make More Impact with Live Event Streaming
Live streaming company events on IBM Cloud Video and vBrick Rev Enterprise Video Platform is a great way to expand your audience as well as increase employee engagement. Users can enable administration of this function if they so choose.
Different Meeting Rooms, Same Experience
Within Modern View, users have the ability to apply their default audio and video options to their Personal Room in order to have a meeting experience that is uniform across all of their spaces.
Introducing the Fastest Webex Meetings Join Experience
Better meetings for both the host and the guests are guaranteed by seamless joining.
Better Prepared for Meetings
Before you attend the meeting, make sure that your audio and video connections are working properly by managing them.
Set Preferences for Faster Joining
You can join with just one click and save your chosen settings in the desktop software for use in subsequent sessions.
Faster Meetings for Guests
The on-boarding process for first-time customers is sped up by a desktop program that requires only one installation.
Meet your Modern View Dashboard
Redesigned dashboard that makes it simpler to access important functionalities and activity data.
Make use of the search box to locate your organization’s Personal Rooms, as well as scheduled meetings, recordings, and other relevant content, as soon as possible.
Seamless Analytics & Troubleshooting from Site Administration
Webex sites that are connected to Control Hub provide users with a simple means of accessing Analytics and Troubleshooting directly from the Site Administration without the need for an additional login.
Join Before Host Option in Modern View
- Prior to joining a meeting, ensure that the audio and video inputs have been properly configured.
- Perform a test of VoIP before joining.
- Make the most of your immediate surroundings.
- Don’t forget to adjust the sound and video for the upcoming meetings.
- Upon entering, turn off the music and hide the video options.
Find Some Privacy
Hosts can now move attendees to the lobby during a meeting and talk to other participants in private.
Broaden your Team Collaboration
Easier integrations with the productivity tools your teams use daily—new capabilities planned for both Slack and Microsoft Teams
More to Love about Modern View
Your options for Personal Conference Meetings (PCN), the settings for Call My Video Address, as well as your Personal Contacts and Company Address Book, are now accessible through Modern View.
Easier Recording Editing
You should edit your video-centric meeting recordings so that the beginning is at the end, and vice versa. You also have the option to make changes at a later time or to revert to the original files.
Intelligent Meetings
People Insights allows you to better understand the context of the people you’re meeting and create stronger relationships with them in significantly less time.