We are excited to announce the release of our latest MS16 software beta version! This release delivered new features and improvements designed to make you more efficient and productive. Upgrade to this new version today for remote network traffic analysis flow improvement and network security enhancement. We encourage you to upgrade to the latest software release and provide us with your feedback.  

Eligible platforms 

MS16 will be applicable to all non-MS390 switches. If your network has MS390 and/or migrated C9300, please refer to our latest Catalyst-based Switching (CS) firmware release. 

We are thrilled to introduce independent firmware releases for Meraki Switching (MS) and Catalyst-based Switching (CS), including the MS390 and migrated C9300 switches. This milestone furthers our commitment to delivering consistent and reliable features and quality updates to all our customers, regardless of your switching product models. 

Why are we doing this? 

This new firmware release approach will accelerate our value delivery, so you, as a customer, will experience more innovations faster and better, regardless of your switching product models. We will ensure a consistent user experience and interoperability on both firmware branches when adding new features, albeit with different release schedules.

Additional 30 ports to scale AutoVPN 

Cisco Secure Connect is a turnkey, unified Service Edge Secure Access (SASE) solution designed to deliver an exceptional user experience with minimal effort by securely connecting users, things, and applications seamlessly from anywhere. This solution converges cloud-delivered security (SSE) and networking (SD-WAN) on one powerful platform with a single dashboard, making management easy and providing greater visibility and control. There are many use cases that Cisco Secure Connect offers, but one of the key use cases is Remote Access. If you would like to learn more, please refer to the document here.

Traditionally, the organization has several hubs deployed as a headend where Remote users establish the connectivity through VPN client. Meraki MX provides this capability with two options: Client-VPN and Cisco Secure Client (aka AnyConnect) VPN. With Cisco Secure Connect, you can achieve the same with cloud hubs available in various regions. It provides benefits such as scale, flexibility and cloud-delivered security capabilities that does not limit the performance or impact the end user experience.

While transitioning to the cloud-based Remote Access solution, one of the key questions is, how can I make sure that all my current policies can be applied to the cloud-based solution? One way is to create them from scratch line by line. Or as Meraki says, we make things simple. Cisco Secure Connect is built on the fundamental principle of simplicity everywhere, interconnect everything. Hence, the other option is to instead use a newly developed tool - Policy Import.

Yes!! We are very excited to announce that the Policy Import feature is now available in all Cisco Secure Connect supported regions. It is specifically designed to simplify the admin experience, where IT can simply follow a few steps via a guided wizard to import all their Remote Access policies from MX SD-WAN to the Cisco Secure Connect Cloud Firewall. To learn more, please visit our documentation here.

Meraki is launching an all new dashboard experience focused on simplicity and intelligence. The new dashboard is cleaner in design, more intuitive to use, and makes it even easier to see what’s happening within networks. We’re doing this to help customers accomplish more in less time while also making it easier for them to stay on top of all aspects of their networks.

Today, we are thrilled to announce the availability of three significant updates to our Cisco Meraki Trusted Access solution - designed to make your wireless onboarding experience with Meraki MRs more seamless, secure, and user-friendly than ever before!

1. Dynamic Expiration Dates
2. Windows 10+ Support
3. Improved Android Experience with Passpoint
   

Administrators no longer need to rely on MAC addresses for ISE policies for SM enrolled devices. Use SM to install a EAP-TLS profile with Wi-Fi+certificate for Cisco ISE device tracking! 

Plus, a bonus updated support for hiding System Preference panes in macOS 13+ 

Customers can now apply a default vape detection alert to detect vape on their school grounds.

We are super excited to announce that VLAN Profiles is now available to access via the early access page. 

MS users, please go to the dashboard, navigate to Organization>Early Access, and toggle “VLAN Profiles” to sign up today! Please refer to the VLAN Profiles documentation page for requirements, guidelines, and limitations. 

For MR users who would like to use this feature, please join the MR 30 Early Adopters Signup here.

As we announced previously, the WEP security algorithm has been deprecated on MR 30.X firmware.

Limited configuration options still exist when using the old Access control page (Wireless > Configure > Access control > View old version > WPA encryption mode) until this page is deprecated.

Please refer to WEP Deprecation on MRs for more information.

The Meraki dashboard team is super excited to announce the public beta launch of not one, but two brand new features today! The Network Service Health and Roaming Analytics features are both available today (03/31/23) via early access and promise to provide even more powerful and intuitive network assurance management capabilities to you, our customers.

Network Service Health

The Network Service Health tile is designed to allow you a one-stop-shop overview of your entire network environment, greatly reducing the lift of assessing network health and granting a quick monitoring and troubleshooting process.

Update now! Significant quality improvements and new features. Check out the MS Firmware Features Directory for details. 

Break SGT boundaries and go global!

The announcements keep on rolling and our Meraki Systems Manager team is excited to share with you our brand new Managed Per App Networking feature in conjunction with the Cisco Security Connector app! This powerful feature will allow users of Meraki Systems Manager to deploy Cisco security on a per-app basis for both supervised and unsupervised devices, allowing for greater specified mobile management control.

We are super excited to announce the launch of the new Switching Overview feature as part of our continuously improving Meraki dashboard! This new feature provides a centralized management hub that gives you a comprehensive view of the status and performance of your switch infrastructure, allowing for better network understanding and identification of potential issues.

Some of the benefits of the new Switching Overview feature include: 

• Enhanced monitoring experience: The new feature is designed to consolidate wide-ranging alerts, metrics, and overall switch infrastructure health into a condensed bird’s eye view.

• Reduced click-time: You no longer need to browse through an assortment of dashboard pages. View and monitor your switching network with efficiency and speed.

• Ability to forecast future network needs: Understand your switching network’s capacity and current utilization to better predict and plan for network expansion needs.

You asked, we listened! Many of you asked for more alerts in the mobile app to stay informed while away from the dashboard. We are excited to announce that we have added the top 11 requested alerts to keep you in the know while on the go! Read more!

Global Overview is now publicly available to customers as part of our Next Generation Dashboard initiative. This

creates an efficient workflow to help you manage more organizations in less time. Read more!

Motion-based retention has become even more powerful, with a new selection tool that allows users to draw custom shapes around areas of interest. This allows organizations more flexibility to select more specific areas that they want to use for video retention, instead of being limited to a rectangular shape. 

We are excited to officially announce Meraki Display, a new Apple TV app for live streaming video walls, now available on the Apple App Store. Meraki Display is a simple, dedicated video wall monitoring solution. Alongside the Vision portal and the Meraki mobile app, Meraki Display is another tool for security teams to keep facilities safe.

We are excited to announce the release of our new Meraki Health Organization Alerts page, available today (1/26/23) via early access! This much requested feature results in an incredible efficiency boost, reducing click-time and greatly increasing org-wide visibility.

What does it do? 

The new Org Alerts page aims to:

• Promote Efficiency -  centralizing all dashboard alerts of your organization in a single pane

• Save time - filter and sort alerts to quickly identify critical issues

• Increase ease of use - simplified navigation and improved UI allows you to dismiss irrelevant alerts and reduce excess noise

New Organization Alerts Page

How do I enable this?

In the dashboard, navigate to Organization > Early Access. Opt-in by clicking the toggle button for New Organization Alert Page & Alert hub Enhancements.

How do I access the page? 

Once enabled via early access you can access the page by navigating to Organization >> Alerts. 

Additional information on this feature can be found in Meraki Documentation

A new SM app update is available on the AppStore with darkmode, homescreen shortcuts, MR suggested networks, a new UI for managed apps, and more. 

SES ESL integration is now available for all networks running MR 28.1 or newer firmware.

Please ensure that your V:Cloud stores use the token-based (JWT) connection. Direct connection type is no longer supported for new ESL deployments.

Refer to our documentation for more details.

WPN is now available to all customers with networks running MR 29.4.1 Stable and 29.5 Release Candaite firmware.

Please refer to the updated WPN documentation for more information about this feature.

Have you recently upgraded your Meraki Switches to Firmware 15.18 Release Candidate? If so, we would love to hear from you!  Please take a few moments to complete this Google Form and share your direct feedback and experience with us.

If you missed the announcement, please check out this community post for details. As always, should you encounter any issues with your upgrade, please get in touch with Meraki support for assistance.

We are excited to announce the Meraki Status Page. It is designed to communicate incidents that impact many customers, an entire service, device type, or region. It does not reflect scheduled maintenance or service outages that fall below a certain threshold.

We purposely made it separate from the Meraki Dashboard in the event it is part of an outage. No login is required to access the Meraki Status Page: https://status.meraki.net. 

Please be aware that outages that are not systemic in nature, or don’t affect a significant percentage of Meraki customers may not be reflected on the Meraki Status Page.  This is intentional to keep the “noise level” down, and only call out truly impactful outages.

To learn more about the Meraki Status page, including how to subscribe to notifications, please visit our Meraki Status Page documentation page.

Export different time ranges from each video wall tile

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