Hi all, we're currently on v41.7 of Webex Events (Classic), and we're using it to host virtual conferences with participants from different companies around the world. I noticed that the v41.8 release includes 2 collaboration restrictions, and I want to know if they would potentially affect participants belonging to certain companies who join our conferences.
Upcoming restrictions
- Collaboration restrictions for your company users joining external meetings: Site administrators, you can now restrict your company users to use certain in-meeting features, that go against your company policies when joining meetings outside of your organization. These features are made read only or blocked for your users: File transfer, Screen share, Annotation, Chat, and Q&A and Polling. You can add your own approved site list to exclude these restrictions. We’ve provided you with a simple toggle in Control Hub to control these features for all users in your organization. This setting is only applicable to users using your company’s claimed domain email address to join meetings.
- Collaboration restrictions for users using your company devices to join external meetings: Site administrators can control in-meeting experience for any user (including guests) who are using your company laptop (Windows and Mac) and mobile device (iOS and Android) to join external Webex meetings. As a site administrator, you can configure your laptops and mobile devices using registry keys in a way that restricts any user joining meetings using this laptop to adhere to the collaboration restrictions. Simply use registry keys to mass configure and manage your company laptops and mobile devices and use your company’s Org ID as a token in the registry key. There are appropriate indication in the meetings to let users know that they are restrictions to use certain features due to their company enforced policy restrictions.
Questions
1. Do these restrictions apply to Events (Classic)?
2. If so, does the "claimed domain email address" mentioned in the 1st restriction apply only to email addresses that have been specifically added to an organisation on Webex? Or would it apply to all emails that use a particular domain (e.g. domain is example.com, so everyone with an @example.com email address is affected, regardless of whether they've been added to the organisation on Webex)?
Thanks in advance
