Now watch the bean counters lay off collaboration folks anyway
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Yes, that’s a major pain as well. I really only want Jabber for the Softphone, I’ll turn off all mine as well, because now I have about 3-4 different tools alerting me for the same meeting.
The mega pain for me is with Jabber (and/or maybe Webex teams) where it pops up a reminder in the bottom left hand side that you meeting is coming/due.
I disabled all meeting reminders in Jabber and Teams because all my meetings are in Outlook and I don't need multiple reminders. Plus there was the issue where people would cancel WebEx meetings via Outlook and the WebEx meeting would not get deleted but the Outlook one did, so you'd get reminders about cancelled meetings.
WebEx is such a "focus" thief!!!! If only they'd fix that.
Some smart replies here - it's one thing I miss about Cisco, some people with solid, straight answers that know what they're talking about and know their environment. Good luck people and stay healthy!
Bottom right hand side.
I'm not aware of that change. I've seen lots of messaging around reminding users that "most" apps no longer require VPN and not to use it unless needed.
They mentioned it in a CV all hands about 2 weeks back. Yes, it’s a pain that you cannot access a local printer, but you can set up an LPR queue back to your home network and put a port forward through your home router.
Last time I tried to access outlook from outside the VPN, I got some cryptic message about this resource being no longer available.
The mega pain for me is with Jabber (and/or maybe Webex teams) where it pops up a reminder in the bottom left hand side that you meeting is coming/due. It has a number of hot keys you can use. You can configure the client so the hot keys do nothing. But it still grabs your input focus and filters the keystrokes. So, you’re reading along with you outlook and when you delete your message with control-D nothing happens since this stupid app is still taking over the hot keys, even though they’ve been disabled.
does the Cisco VPN client still hijack your entire traffic -including webex- all the way to corporate as soon as you enable it?
No, they changed that abut two weeks ago.
I'm not aware of that change. I've seen lots of messaging around reminding users that "most" apps no longer require VPN and not to use it unless needed.
But I'm not going to disable VPN when I'm done with a task, then have to re-connect to VPN when I get an email I have to take action on and then drop the VPN connection again. I just connect it and forget it.
AnyConnect still blocks access to your home printer, NAS, and VMs on your laptop because it doesn't allow split tunnels.
Now, if only the WebEx team could/would make WebEx stop stealing the focus when someone starts or stops sharing their screen!!!!
does the Cisco VPN client still hijack your entire traffic -including webex- all the way to corporate as soon as you enable it? that's such an old world config.
No, they changed that abut two weeks ago.
at least in the past, webex had to be cleverly bundled with switches & routers. sales struggled to sell webex to customers
I am not with the mothership anymore, but hear from friends there have been massive webex performance issues.
does the Cisco VPN client still hijack your entire traffic -including webex- all the way to corporate as soon as you enable it? that's such an old world config.
Probably should close the Spring, TX office. No real need for it.
hopefully they can fix the Spring, TX office. The morale there is not positive since Cisco took over Broadsoft to gain this technology.
so true hahaha. a typical cisco finance move...