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

Export from every dewarped tile from a single fisheye camera

MS 15.18 Release Candidate is now available for all switch customers via the Meraki dashboard. We have made significant quality improvements and added lots of new features in this release. It brings powerful network security and analytics capabilities, streamlined policy management, and enhanced PoE features.

Head on over to the firmware management page and schedule your upgrades now.  

Many Cisco Meraki access points now support Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) channels in the US/FCC regulatory domain. 

MR 29.4.1 release has been promoted to Stable!

Please refer to  MR Firmware Features for more information about specific features included in this release.

To reduce confusion between the new Cisco+ Secure Connect product and the existing MS and MR SecureConnect feature, we are renaming the port configuration capability. We will begin referring to the automated process of securely provisioning MR Access Points when directly connected to Meraki MS Switches as SecurePort.  

Please note that this name change will impact the following API end-point, where customers will need to modify the key ‘secureConnect’ to ‘securePort’ on their API calls:

1.https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!get-network-settings 

2.https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!get-device-switch-ports-statuses 

Learn more 

Read more about SecurePort here.

Keeping track of your firmware update isn’t a glamorous task, but it’s a necessary one that can consume bandwidth you probably don’t have. Perhaps you’ve checked out the improved Staged Upgrades feature, but how can you monitor upgrade progress at the individual switch level? “Does this switch have an upgrade scheduled?”, “Does anything need my attention?”. These are the common questions we all have when updating. 

We now have per-device upgrade status for each switch in a network.

Rolled out on Oct 31st (no trick, only the treat!), firmware upgrade status provides context on the upgrade status for each switch in a network, to reassure admins that firmware upgrades are progressing as scheduled. Update status flags will appear automatically for all switch networks whenever an upgrade is scheduled or in progress. 👏👏

A totally new interface for managing Android apps has been added into Meraki Systems Manager. Also, similar to Web Clips for Apple platforms, Meraki SM administrators can now push websites directly to Android devices with a new feature called Web Apps! 

SP-Initiated SAML Single Sign On (SSO) is now available for all customers on the Early Access page in the dashboard! This is a fully cross-compatible upgrade to existing Meraki dashboard SSO that allows customers to now use two different types of SAML SSO for the dashboard to best fit their deployment. 

This also means that SSO login is now available for the Meraki mobile app! (iOS/Android)

To learn more about this new feature, check our documentation, SP-Initiated SAML SSO Configuration Guide. To compare or learn more about Meraki’s different SAML login types, check out Configuring SAML Single Sign-on for Dashboard.

How to opt in

In the dashboard, navigate to Organization > Early Access. Opt-in by clicking the toggle button for SAML SSO.

How to provide feedback

We care about your feedback, and are actively reviewing feedback and issues related to SP-Initiated SAML SSO. While using the Early Access page, use the Give your feedback button in the bottom-right corner of the page.

Alternatively, if you have feedback for SAML SSO in the mobile app, use the Settings tab, and select Make a wish to leave feedback.

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Public License Move in co-termination is now available and accessible via the Early Access Page.

There are many scenarios that may require the transfer of a license from one Meraki dashboard organization to another.

Previously, moving license keys between organizations could only be performed by a member of the Meraki Support team, but now this feature is available on the dashboard and APIs to Meraki customers using the co-termination model.

This is another step towards adding more flexibility for our multi-org customers so they can save time and money spent when moving licenses in co-termination.

YES! More exciting updates to the Dashboard and Vision portal, improving the user experience of MV smart cameras. 

Now, for fisheye cameras (MV32, and newly introduced MV93 series) the installation of the cameras can be properly reflected in the dashboard and Vision portal.

We are thrilled to introduce the public preview of the improved MS staged upgrades! 

What’s new? 

Staged upgrades improves on the previous version with:

• Reusable upgrade groups
• Easier rescheduling
• Better upgrade progress monitoring
• Ability to use the API to manage and schedule staged upgrades

• A single-page workflow so the entire upgrade can be managed from the org-wide firmware page.
• Switch stacks are treated as a single logical unit, rather than assigning individual stack member switches to upgrade stages.