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Setting Up the Personal Room Meeting

If you have a Webex host license, you can meet in your Personal Room. People you invite can join the same permanent, unique Personal Room link. You can also make sure your meetings are end-to-end encrypted.

The personal room meeting is unique for every user so it will be same forever.

Due to the permanent address this meeting type is ideal for allowing your team members and colleagues to join. It is best to not use this permanent address for public meetings.

Key Features: –
  • Ideal for connecting with people you work with and know.
  • Anyone can join via your permanent Webex Personal Room link.
  • Able to start a meeting without having scheduled it.
  • Your Webex Personal Room is always available, you don’t have to book it, and you always know where to find it.
  1. Set your Personal Room preferences
    You can change the name, URL, and host PIN of your Personal Room, and designate alternate hosts or cohosts for your Personal Room meetings. For added security, you can set your Personal Room to automatically lock after the meeting starts. People cannot enter a locked meeting; they wait in your lobby until you let them in.
  • Sign in to User Hub (your WebEx URL), then select Settings.
  • Go to My Personal Room and enter new name in the Personal Room name.
  • Your Personal Room name can be 1–128 characters in length.
  • To edit your Personal Room link, enter a new ID. Your Personal Room link has these requirements: Can be 1–64 characters in length.
    Must contain at least one alphabetic character.

Must not contain any symbols or special characters except hyphens (-), periods (.), or underscores (_).

Must not already be in use by someone else on the site.

  • To lock your Personal Room automatically after the meeting starts, check Automatic lock, and specify the number of minutes.You can choose 0, 5, 10, 15, or 20 minutes. After a meeting locks, attendees wait to join the meeting until you admit them.
  • For Notification, check Notify me by email when someone enters my Personal Room lobby while I am away, receive an email notification when someone enters your Personal Room.
  • For Cohost, check Allow cohosts for my Personal Room meetings.If you allow another person or video device to cohost your Personal Room meetings, select one of the options:
    • Let me choose cohosts for my Personal Room meetings
    • The first person to join my Personal Room meeting who has a host account on this site becomes a cohost
    • All attendees who have host accounts on this site become cohosts when they join my Personal Room meetings
      To specify cohosts, enter their email addresses separated by commas or semicolons.
  • For Share content, check or uncheck Anyone can share content in my Personal Room.
    When enabled for your site, you can allow or prevent users from sharing content during Personal Room meetings.
  • For Mute attendees, choose from the following options
    • Allow the host and cohosts to unmute participants (Moderated unmute mode)—Hosts and cohosts can unmute participants and SIP-based video devices directly without sending an unmute request. This is available in 41.1 and later Webex sites.
    • Allow attendees to unmute themselves in the meeting—If you have chosen to mute attendees when they join the meeting, select this option to allow them to unmute themselves during the meeting.
    • Always mute attendees when they join the meeting—Automatically mutes attendees when they join the meeting. Attendees can raise their hands if they want to speak during a meeting.
  • Select Save.

 

Written By :

Anis Bandar - Call Manager, WebEx and VoIP Specialist

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