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You need to download the WebEx Meeting Manager. The first time you start or join a meeting, it is automatically downloaded to your computer. You can also download the Meeting Manager from your Support page.
For a detailed list of the computers, operating systems, and browsers that work with WebEx Meeting Center, see Cross-platform Features (WBS30).
Yes. You can use Outlook to schedule meetings, invite attendees, and start WebEx meetings. The attendees you invite can join your meeting from their Outlook Calendars.
To get started, download and install WebEx Integration for Microsoft from your WebEx Support page. For detailed instructions, see the Integration to Outlook User's Guide (also available on your Support page). To get to the Support page, select Assistance on the menu at the left, then select Support.
Note | You need administrative privileges to install WebEx Integration for Microsoft on Windows computers |
When you start or join a meeting on Mac for the first time, starting in WBS28.5, you are asked to download and install an add-on.
Run the Install Cisco WebEx Add-On.app and follow the instructions on the screen.
After the installation is complete, the meeting starts automatically.
With file sharing, attendees can see the file or document, but presenter can't change it. With application sharing, you share the application that you used to create or change the file or document; as you change the document, your attendees see your changes. Application sharing uses more bandwidth and therefore can affect the overall performance of your meeting.
You can share virtually any type of file or application, but those that stream video or audio may not display appropriately. To share streaming content, use WebEx "Web content sharing" which displays the content in a Web browser on each attendee's computer. All you have to do is select Web Content from the Share menu, enter the URL of a Web site that contains the streaming content, and your attendees can see it in their own browsers. You can share many files or presentations at the same time; each file or presentation appears on its own tab in the content viewer.
File sharing requires relatively little bandwidth and thus works well at slower connection speeds. Application sharing requires more bandwidth.
Yes. Just save the document or presentation to your desktop and then double-click it. The document or presentation displays in the WebEx File Viewer.
Yes.
The crosshatched pattern is the shadow of a window that is displayed on top of the shared application. Just close the window and the pattern disappears.
Yes. Meeting Manager maps your keyboard keys to those on the remote computer. For details, look up "keyboard shortcuts" in your Meeting Center user guide.
Yes.
Yes. You can share StarOffice7 presentations. For more information about using Meeting Center with Solaris computers, see WebEx Cross-platform Features (WBS30).
Yes.
Yes. You can share StarOffice7 presentations. For more information about using Meeting Center with Solaris computers, see WebEx Cross-platform Features (WBS30).
The following are known limitations for sharing content in CMR Hybrid meetings:
Yes. Internet phone, also called voice over IP (VoIP), is available. For more information about VoIP and other audio options, see the Audio section of the Meeting Center Release Notes.
Yes, for details see http://www.webex.com/pdf/tollfree_restrictions.pdf
Video service is automatically provided with your WebEx service. Select the green video camera icon in the meeting to share your web camera video.
Some factors that affect performance include:
To improve performance:
You can use a utility such as Trace Route to determine where problems occur between your computer and the WebEx server. In Windows, open a command prompt window, then type "tracert <your_siteURL>" (where "your_site_URL" is the Web address of your WebEx service site). Make sure that you include a space after "tracert".
Trace Route sends data from your computer and measures the amount of time it takes for the data to reach the WebEx server. Ideally, it should take the data between 1 and 60 ms to reach the server. If it takes:
Your Meeting Center service Web site dynamically generates many of its pages so you cannot bookmark them. You can, however, bookmark the following pages on your WebEx service site:
URL |
Description |
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<sitename>.webex.com |
The home page for your WebEx service site. |
<sitename>.webex.com/meet/<username> |
Your Personal Meeting Room page, which shows online sessions that you scheduled and any in-progress meetings that you are currently hosting. You can provide this URL to a user in an email, and you can print it on your business cards. Users who view this page can join any meeting that you are hosting or download your shared files and folders. In the My WebEx > My Profile page, you can specify options for your Personal Meeting Room page, such as including a welcome message, graphics, and links to files and folders that you want to share. |
<sitename>.webex.com/join/<username> |
Your join meeting page, which allows an attendee to join a meeting you have started, or if no meeting is in progress, it displays your Personal Meeting Room. |
<sitename>.webex.com/start/<username> |
Your start meeting page, which allows you to start a meeting you have scheduled, or if more than one meeting is scheduled, it displays your Personal Meeting Room. |
Yes. For better ease-of-use for global attendees, you can invite attendees in their own language and time zone. The invitation displays the meeting time in the attendee's time zone, and the meeting link in the invitation displays meeting information in the attendee's language and allows the attendee to join the meeting in their own language. This option is available only when scheduling on Web pages.
The host's settings for language and time zone are used by default. When inviting an attendee from an address book, stored settings for language and time zone are used. Any attendee's language and time zone can be overridden by the host when inviting the attendee.
If your site has WebEx audio turned on, and if your site also has the Global Call-in Numbers option turned on, you can view or display the global call-in numbers in two ways:
For information about global toll-free calling restrictions, go to http://www.webex.com/pdf/tollfree_restrictions.pdf.
Yes. Calendar pages, meeting information pages, Join pages, and email invitations now display links that allow users to easily change their language, time zone, and locale settings.
Yes. Meetings now display on calendars at the scheduled start time, not the actual start time, to make it easier for attendees to locate a meeting in progress on a calendar. For example, a meeting that was scheduled at 11:00 but started at 10:57 still displays at 11:00 on the calendar.
Yes. The Community button appears on the horizontal navigation bar, allowing both hosts and attendees to access the WebEx Community in a new browser window.