What is new in 3.1 for administrators
This is an overview of new features and changes that are relevant for administrators.
Provisioning update: Choose a name for each user import
In this release, you can enter a name for each user import. If you do not enter a name, Meeting Management will create a name based on its configuration.
See Provisioning - Import users
Provisioning update: Choose who can create which types of spaces
In previous releases, you could make templates available to all web app users for creating spaces. In this release, you can assign specific templates to specific users.
See Provisioning - Allow users to create spaces.
Provisioning update: Define minimum password length for each participant role
Previously, the Meeting Server's default settings would always be in place. In this release, you can choose to use the default setting, or you can define a minimum password length for each participant role.
See Provisioning - Allow users to create spaces.
Provisioning update: Automatically create spaces for users
In this release you can provision spaces for users.
See Provisioning - Automatically create space for users.
Provisioning update: Schedule Meeting Server LDAP sync
In previous releases, you could manually trigger an LDAP sync to implement changes to provisioning settings. Now you can also schedule LDAP sync to be performed at specific times each week.
See LDAP sync.
Improved labels for transmitting and receiving in the participant details
Many users provided incorrect information to Support because they were confused about the direction of transmitting and receiving. To make that clearer, we have changed the labels to To participant and From participant.
The video operator instructions have been updated to reflect the change. See for example View participant details and Call statistics.
Use Webex Control Hub to monitor your Meeting Management and Meeting Server deployments
You can connect your Meeting Management deployment to Webex Control Hub, so you can see Meeting Management alerts and metrics from the Control Hub interface. You can also set up email and Webex Teams notifications for alerts.
From Webex Control Hub you can:
- See status for all connected instances of Meeting Management
- See notifications from the Meeting Management overview page
- Set up email and Webex Teams notifications
For information and instructions, see https://meeting-infohub.cisco.com/olh/meeting-server-cloud-connector/
Note: This is a beta feature in Meeting Management 3.1.0, and it is not generally available in Control Hub and the Webex Cloud. If you want to test this features, contact your Cisco Account team or send an email to personalmultiparty@cisco.com.
Note: Cisco does not guarantee that a beta feature will become a fully supported feature in the future. Beta features are subject to change based on feedback, and functionality may change or be removed in the future.
Meeting Management and connected Meeting Servers must run the same software version
Before 3.0, every version of Meeting Management supported the same Meeting Server as well as the two previous ones. From 3.0, each Meeting Management version only supports Meeting Servers running the same version.
Note: To avoid any issues, we strongly recommend that you always upgrade Meeting Management before you upgrade the connected Meeting Servers. We have edited Upgrading from previous version to reflect this change.
Changes to requirements
We have updated the section to say that Meeting Management 3.1 is only supported with Meeting Server 3.1. We have also added that the only supported version of Smart Software Manager On-prem (satellite) is version 8-202008, and we have added Webex Cloud and Control Hub to port information.
For all requirements and prerequisites for Meeting Management 3.1, see Before you start.