Cisco Cisco WebEx Meeting Center WBS30 Release Notes
Meeting Center Release Notes
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WebEx Meeting Center Release Notes and FAQs
Office 2013
Support
is available starting with version WBS28.11.
Microsoft Office 2013 support for File Sharing in WebEx meetings is available starting with
version WBS28.12.1.
If you have Office 2013 installed on your computer and want to share an Office 2013 file
in a WebEx meeting, the following core features for Microsoft PowerPoint file sharing with
Office 2013 are supported:
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Preload multiple documents prior to the meeting
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Toggle sharing between several open documents
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Annotate shared slides
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Move between pages
The following functionality is not supported for Office 2013 PowerPoint files:
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Animations and transitions
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Embedded video or audio files
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PowerPoint notes in a dedicated panel
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UCF Toolkit
If you want to share PowerPoint presentations that contain animations, transitions, or
embedded video, we recommend that you use the desktop sharing or application sharing
features instead of the file sharing feature when using Office 2013.
In addition, customers who use Custom Info Tabs and who have PowerPoint 2013
installed should validate their customized tabs because some elements may not be
supported. Contact your CSM or Tech Support if you require verification or change
assistance for Custom Info Tabs.
Office 2013 support for sharing Word and Excel documents is also included in this release.
There are limitations for Windows 8 and we recommend that you use the desktop sharing
or application sharing features instead of the file sharing feature to share file types that
Tagging
internal
participants if
your site has
single sign-on
If you have single sign-on authentication enabled for your site, all participants of a
meeting who sign in using single sign-on when joining the meeting will be tagged to
indicate that they are internal to your organization. Anyone who joins without using single
sign-on authentication will not be tagged. The feature allows you to be certain of who the
participants of your meetings are, so you can tailor the content accordingly and ensure
that any confidential material is shared with the right audience. The tag appears
everywhere that a participant’s name appears in the meeting, including the participants
list, video thumbnails, Chat, polling, annotations, file transfer, passing control, attendee
privileges, and attendee reports. A new setting in Site Administration allows you to disable
tagging for your site.
Video
enhancements
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Meeting controls available in video full-screen view—the Meeting Control
panel is now available in video full-screen view, making it easy for a user to access
common functions in this mode.
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Chat with meeting participants from video thumbnail—users can easily chat
with other participants by simply hovering over their video thumbnails to access
the chat function.
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Fading controls when not needed—for easy and clear view when using video,
controls fade from the video of the active speaker and thumbnails when the user is