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Setting Up the Personal Room Meeting

Post author By Lino Almojela
Post date September 1, 2024
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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.

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.

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WebEx Meetings and Webinar

Post author By Lino Almojela
Post date September 1, 2024
4 Comments on WebEx Meetings and Webinar

Polling, Chat, and Break out rooms in the WebEx meetings and Webinar

As a host or cohost in WebEx Meetings or WebEx Webinars, use polls to create and share questionnaires. Polls can be useful for gathering feedback, taking votes, or testing knowledge.

You can also create polls in Slido, before the meeting or webinar begins.

To use polls in your meeting or webinar, turn polling on in meeting Advanced options > Scheduling options > Meeting options or in webinar Advanced options > Scheduling options > Webinar options.

Below are the steps to do the polling in WebEx meeting or Webinar:

Step1: Select View > Panels > Manage Panels, then select Polling > Add > OK

click , then select Polling.

Step2: Select the question type from the drop-down list in the Question section of the polling panel.

Select Short answer if you want users to type short answer.
Select Multiple choice – Multiple Answer for a poll that allows users to select multiple answers from a list of possibilities.
Select Multiple choice – Single Answer for a poll that allows users to select one answer from a list of possibilities.

Step3: Click New to create a new question.

Step4: Type your question in the text box and press Enter.

Step5: Click Answer, type your answer in the text box and press Enter.

Step6: Select your poll, then click Open Poll.

Once polling is completed Click Close Poll to close a poll.

Polls in Slido:

Hosts can use live polls with Slido to engage participants during a meeting or webinar.

Please refer https://help.webex.com/en-us/article/nshu3xu/Polls-in-Slido for more information.

Chat in WebEx meeting and webinar:

Get more from your meeting with in-meeting chat. Chat to everyone in the meeting, or directly with a meeting participant. Post messages when you have something to say but don’t want to interrupt whoever’s speaking. Revisit and share the chat after the meeting ends. If the conversation is focused on the speaker, for example, hosts and cohosts can turn off chat in the meeting.

You can either chat with everyone or private chat with meeting participant.

Host and cohosts can turn off chat for all participants at any stage of a meeting or breakout session. Any previous chat messages are available to access after the meeting.

As a host or cohost, click More options > Meeting options
Uncheck Chat, and click Apply.

A notice appears to all participants that the chat panel is unavailable.

Breakout sessions in meetings and webinars:

Breakout sessions are smaller groups that are split off from the main meeting or webinar. Use breakout sessions for workshops, classrooms, or for when you need a moment to talk privately with a few participants outside of the main session. This feature is supported on WebEx Meetings and WebEx Webinars.

In meetings, hosts and cohosts create breakout sessions, assign participants, and start the sessions when they’re ready. Attendees can share content and use collaboration tools such as chat to collaborate in smaller, more focused discussion groups. Each breakout session is a separate audio and video conference. If you connected to audio when you joined the meeting or webinar, it switches over automatically when you join a breakout session. In meetings, you can mute or unmute your audio and start or stop your video at any time during the breakout session, just like you would in the main meeting. When all breakout sessions end, your audio switches to the main session automatically. In meetings, if your video was on during the breakout session, it remains on when all breakout sessions end, and you return to the main session.

Feel free to reach out to us at sales@accendnetworks.com if you have any questions.

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Connect to meeting audio and do content sharing

Post author By Lino Almojela
Post date August 28, 2024
4 Comments on Connect to meeting audio and do content sharing

How to Connect to Meeting Audio and Do Content Sharing

Cisco WebEx offers several audio connection types for meetings, including using your computer, phone, or internet. Below are the types of the various options available to connect to WebEx meeting audio.

Computer audio (Use internet for audio):
Use speakers or headphones to connect to audio over the internet. This option is considered to have the highest audio quality. If your computer has a supported sound card and an internet connection, you can also use a headset to join the meeting.
Call me:
Enter a phone number for the meeting to call, such as your home or work number. This option allows you to move around while still participating in the meeting.
Call in:
Dial into the meeting from your phone when it starts. You can find a list of global call-in numbers after joining the meeting. You can also use this option if your battery is low, and you want to switch to audio-only mode to save battery life.
Don’t connect to audio:
This option prevents you from hearing audio in the meeting, but you can still use your device to share content.

Content sharing in WebEx meeting:

When you share content in Webex App, everyone in the meeting can easily see what’s being discussed. Anyone can share content, but only one person can share at a time.

If you are a host or cohost of the meeting, you can disable sharing for all other participants during a meeting.

You can share content when you’re connected to a room or desk device.

Step1: During a meeting, select

Step2: When you’re sharing content with video or audio, you should check these options:

Optimization drop-down list:

Automatically Optimize—Chooses the best optimization for your content type.
Optimize for text and images—Displays text and images in your shared content at the highest resolution and clarity possible.
Optimize for motion and video—The video plays back much more smoothly, as some resolution is sacrificed in Favor of a higher frame rate to reduce lag and increase fluidity in your shared video, animation, or dynamic content.
Share computer audio—Allows others to hear your computer audio in addition to your microphone audio.

Step3: Choose the screen or application that you want to share.

If you share your screen, it shows your Webex App windows, by default. To prevent them from being visible to other participants, hide Webex App.
For applications share all or an individual application window. To share your Webex App meeting window and all floating windows, you must select Share all windows from an application.
Hold Shift to select multiple applications. Everyone in the meeting sees one of the shared applications at a time only.
If you don’t see the app that you want to share, scroll to see all your open apps, or drag the resize handle on any of the four corners or sides to make the window larger or smaller.

Step4: Check the Show me in front of presentation check box to show your video in front of the shared content.

NOTE: This option isn’t available when you share your Webex App meeting window and all floating windows.

Step5: While you’re sharing, you can select the following:

Pause to pause sharing your screen or application.
Resume to resume sharing your screen or application.

The

indicator shows your network connection and CPU usage, the

indicator appears when the meeting is being recorded, and the indicator appears when the meeting is locked. Step6: When you want to stop

sharing, click Stop at the top of the screen.

Tags Cisco Webex, Cisco Webex Audio, Cisco Webex Content Sharing

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WebEx Application

Introduction to WebEx Application

In real-time or anytime, Webex App is engaging, intelligent and inclusive and helps you create exceptional experiences and makes working together distinctly better.

The Webex App is one easy-to-use and secure app you can use to call, message, meet, and get work done:

It brings everyone together to do exceptional work.
It makes you smarter; it’s personalized to you.
It gives you options to choose how you work.
It moves fluidly while you call, message, and meet.

Log in to WebEx App:

It is very simple task to log into WebEx app. Double click on the App to launch it. Post launching below screen is presented to the users:

You can click on the sign in and then enter your business Email address to log in.

1. Messaging

Start working together When you start a conversation with someone, it creates a space between you and the people you invite to the conversation. You can invite anyone (including people outside your organization) to join in on a conversation. All you need is their email address. All your work takes place within spaces and teams. Spaces give you a place to collaborate on a specific topic or project. In a space, you can send messages, schedule meetings, and call other people.

If your original intention changes and your project outgrows its original purpose, you can create a team and then  move a space into a team. Teams help you keep everything organized by putting multiple spaces under a common theme. Teams are great for a consistent group of people who are going to be working on something for a long time. That something can involve many activities or can be subprojects happening at the same time. If your organization has public spaces, you can discover, join or create public spaces and connect with people with similar interests, or keep up with the latest news. And you find that you’re in too many spaces and some of them don’t require your input or you don’t need to keep up with that particular conversation, you can leave any space at any time.

Send a message:
When you write your messages, you can send a quick one, or make it stand out with more text formatting and emojis. You can also share files, pictures, videos, and even gifs. Webex App keeps a list of all the content shared in a space, so you’ll never lose track of them. Use @mentions to make sure the right people see your message. Don’t worry if you’ve made a mistake and need to edit it or if you’ve pasted in the wrong space and need to delete the message entirely.

Your messages are persistent. The next time you message the group, your conversation picks right up where you’ve left it. And after you send a message, you can see who’s read your message.

Read and respond to messages:
When you get a new message, you’re notified right away. If you’re too busy to respond but want to see someone’s message, you can just take a quick peek instead. People won’t know that you’ve seen the message. You can also make it easy for yourself and others to follow a specific train of thought using threading, quotes, and even forwarding a message to someone else.

You can also flag important messages so that you can refer to them easily.

And if you’re looking for a message or a file that was shared but can’t remember what space it was posted in, you can search for it.

2. Meetings

Customize your audio and video preferences When you join a meeting from your computer, the app automatically detects the audio and video devices you have connected to your computer, such as a headset. You can change your settings right before you start or join a meeting, like if you want your video on or want to dial into a meeting with audio only.

Virtual Background
Limit distractions and maintain privacy in your current surroundings by using a virtual background. You can blur your background, change your background, or add your own background. Blurring your background makes your surroundings appear out of focus so people can’t see the details of what’s going on behind you. You can also completely replace your surroundings with one of the preset backgrounds, one that your site administrator provides, or add one of your own.To set your virtual background before you join a meeting, click Change background on the preview screen and choose the background that you want to use:
- To blur your surroundings while remaining in focus, click Blur.
- To use a default virtual background, click the one you want.
- To use your own image, animated GIF, or video file for the virtual background, click the + icon.
- To change your background during a meeting, click the Video options icon and click stop video, choose Change virtual background and select the type of background you want
- When you’re ready for everyone in the meeting to see your background, click Apply. Webex remembers your selection for your next meeting.
See your upcoming meetings

Knowing what meetings, you have can help you plan your work day. You can view details about your upcoming meetings in your meetings list, like what the meeting is about, when it’s happening, who’s invited, and who scheduled the meeting. When it’s time for a meeting to start, you can join it from the meetings list, too. If the meeting is recorded, select the recording indicator during the meeting to see who started, paused, or stopped the recording. Then, you can contact that person to get the recording. This feature is available when the host or cohost records the meeting on their computer.

3. Calling

Call someone on Webex AppYou can call anyone with a Webex account without any additional plans or services. If you’re connected to each other in the Webex App, you can call them on the Webex App. These are special types of calls that let you add guests to the call, share your whiteboard, and share your screens. You don’t use their phone number; you just need to be connected to them in the app. Just look for the Audio and Video icon.

Answer a call
When you get a call, you get a notification that you can use to accept or decline it. If the person calling you has a Webex account, you can also message the person back if you’re not able to take the call right away.

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Hosting Static Website Amazon S3

Post author By Lino Almojela
Post date August 23, 2024
4 Comments on Hosting Static Website Amazon S3

How to Host a Static Website on Amazon S3 Bucket: A Step-by-Step Guide

In the current digital landscape, having a simple fast, and cost-effective website is essential for showcasing your content, be it running a personal blog, small business, or portfolio. Amazon S3 provides an excellent platform for hosting static websites with its simple storage services.

In this blog, we will guide you through the essential steps to deploy your static website in Amazon S3.

Deploying a static website in s3 is a straightforward and powerful way to leverage cloud infrastructure for your online presence and this article will equip you with everything you need to launch your website effortlessly in amazon s3.

What is Amazon S3?

Amazon S3 is a highly scalable object storage service that offers data availability, security, and performance. It’s suitable for businesses of all sizes and can be used for various use cases such as data lakes, websites, mobile apps, backup and restore archives, and big data analytics.

Let’s dive into the hands-on where we will break down this into a step-by-step guide.

Step 1: Creating an S3 Bucket

In the s3 console, Click Create Bucket.

Enter the bucket name and choose the region where you want the bucket to be located.

Scroll down and uncheck the Block all public access checkbox to disable Amazon S3’s default setting to block public access to an S3 bucket. A warning will appear beneath this section; click on the checkbox to acknowledge current settings to enable public access to the bucket.

This configuration allows users to access static website pages stored in the S3 bucket.

Leave the rest of the options at their default settings, and click on the Create bucket button.

Step 2: Enable Static Website Hosting

On the resulting page from the successful creation of the bucket, click on the bucket name. Select the Properties tab, scroll down to the Static website hosting section, and click Edit.

Once you choose Enable, more configuration options will be made available on the console to enable you to provide the necessary settings and documents for hosting your website.

Leave the Hosting type as the default (Host a static website), and enter the exact name of the Index document that should serve as the file for your static webpage. Do the same for the Error document if you want to have a custom web page for 4XX class errors. This section is case-sensitive, therefore ensure the names you provide are the exact match.

Navigate to the end of the page and click on Save Changes.

When you scroll down the resulting page, you will notice that a bucket endpoint was successfully created.

Step 3: Add a Bucket Policy that Makes an S3 Bucket Content Publicly Available

Here we will add a policy to grant public read-only access to our S3 bucket.

To edit the permissions of your bucket, follow these steps:

On the current page of the console, navigate to the Permissions tab.

To edit the permissions of your bucket, follow these steps:

On the current page of the console, navigate to the Permissions tab.

Scroll down to the Bucket policy section and click on Edit.

Paste the code into the text editor provided in the console.

In the Resource section of the code, replace the unique bucket name with your own. This will ensure that you have the correct permissions for your bucket.

At the bottom of the page, click on Save Changes.

Step 4: Configure an Index Document

The index document is the root file of our static website. Make sure you have your web files ready.

choose the Object tab, and on the resulting page, drag and drop the file (or folders) you want to upload here, or choose Add files (or Add folder). Scroll down and click the Upload button.

After a successful upload, you can view your static website by visiting the Endpoint of your S3 bucket on your web browser.

To get your bucket endpoint, choose the Properties tab and scroll down to the Static website hosting section at the end of the page. Click on it to open your static website on a new tab.

This brings us to the end of this article, pull everything down.

Conclusion

Hosting a static website on Amazon S3 is an efficient and cost-effective solution for delivering web content to a global audience. By leveraging S3’s robust infrastructure, you can ensure high availability, durability, and scalability for your static website.

Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more.

If you have any questions concerning this article or have an AWS project that requires our assistance, please reach out to us by leaving a comment below or email us at sales@accendnetworks.com.

Thank you!