It's the end of week 2 of our month-long Points Contest!   Well you asked and we're delivering: EVERYONE who achieves any tier during this contest will be granted the coveted Points Contest badge:     Looking for ways to participate and simultaneously test out your Meraki expertise? Try viewing the "All Unanswered Topics" page for exactly this: technical questions that have not yet been answered. Remember, the big points come from answers your write that are marked as "Solutions."     Now — on to the scores! 99 of you have qualified for entry to win one of our swanky swag prizes! If you are tagged in any of the tiers below, you’ve achieved entry into both a drawing to win your tier’s prize AND a drawing to win the Grand Prize of an MV32.   Members who reached Tier 1 by achieving 30 points: @rkclimber  @Philbrick  @redsector  @JoDawg007  @van604  @Hircasa  @RaphaelL  @BrandonS  @RalphD  @RARAO_PROINF  @SistemaService  @Marvin_U  @ESTUDO_MERAKI  @AndriyKrukovsk  @Firman_S  @Jeizzen  @AdBurl  @Manjinder  @Dipen  @DHAnderson  @JMorehouse  @Nickj3234  @AxL1971  @PhuongLeUSNRG  @BHC_RESORTS  @NetEngJH  @PaulMcG  @lpopejoy  @Russ_B  @cshaun  @Kiki  @TomasB  @Duluthian  @MK2  @MannyRoutes  @bkrautner  @JED2021  @ksridhar  @MSchwark  @RobinsonRoca  @JonP  @Julian_Hussain  @RonJackson  @OCTOMG  @jbutler  @daniel_abbatt  @Miguel1  @JesperMortensen  @Jayt  @jacky_rnb  @StephenMeyer  @DasVillain  @Shadius  @KitCheng  @Jackson_J    Members who reached Tier 2 by achieving 100 points: @Agus  @OVERKILL  @CameronS  @Greenberet  @Alex67  @harmankardon  @Mario0603  @Bruce  @jinzing  @1c3man  @jcgeorge  @Aaron_Wilson  @drumphile  @Christos_Q  @jmorphew  @blkelseyjo  @GerardoEscalona  @Sadat  @DerekLegler  @Jenifer_Juarez  @Psilva  @Bouza  @MakaraMEAS  @AutomationDude  @NetworkDemon    Members who reached Tier 3 by achieving 200 points: @PhilipDAth  @Inderdeep  @KarstenI  @DarrenOC  @cmr  @BlakeRichardson  @CptnCrnch  @ww  @SSAY-AXS  @alemabrahao  @KRobert  @AnilPatil  @rwiesmann  @PatWruk  @Rebry  @Oscar_Espinoza  @JenPrid  @WenRomero  @GIdenJoe    Congrats to everyone who has qualified so far. Remember, there are still 14 days left to earn points and increase your chances of winning a prize! ... View more

  We've completed week 1 of our month-long Points Contest!   If you're new to the community and you're looking for a good place to start, check out our "Introduce Yourself" board. Here, you can get your feet wet by chatting with community members new and old, and earn valuable contest points while you're there!   78 of you have qualified for entry to win one of our stylish swag prizes! If you are tagged in any of the tiers below, you’ve achieved entry into both a drawing to win your tier’s prize AND a drawing to win the Grand Prize of an MV32.   Members who reached Tier 1 by achieving 30 points: @Agus  @AutomationDude  @Aaron_Wilson  @rkclimber  @JoDawg007  @Marvin_U  @RalphD  @RARAO_PROINF  @Firman_S  @SistemaService  @ESTUDO_MERAKI  @AndriyKrukovsk  @Philbrick  @KRobert  @Hircasa  @Nickj3234  @NetworkDemon  @RaphaelL  @JMorehouse  @jmorphew  @Make_IT_Simple  @Jeizzen  @PhuongLeUSNRG  @DHAnderson  @PaulMcG  @cshaun  @Kiki  @Duluthian  @MakaraMEAS  @Julian_Hussain  @RonJackson  @OCTOMG  @redsector  @lpopejoy  @BrandonS  @Jayt  @jacky_rnb  @StephenMeyer  @JED2021  @Shadius  @jbutler  @AdBurl  @KitCheng    Members who reached Tier 2 by achieving 100 points: @GIdenJoe  @alemabrahao  @Alex67  @jinzing  @1c3man  @jcgeorge  @Mario0603  @PatWruk  @Greenberet  @CameronS  @Christos_Q  @drumphile  @rwiesmann  @Bruce  @blkelseyjo  @GerardoEscalona  @Sadat  @DerekLegler  @Jenifer_Juarez  @Psilva  @Bouza    Members who reached Tier 3 by achieving 200 points: @PhilipDAth  @Inderdeep  @DarrenOC  @KarstenI  @cmr  @BlakeRichardson  @CptnCrnch  @ww  @SSAY-AXS  @Rebry  @AnilPatil  @WenRomero  @JenPrid    Congrats to everyone who has qualified so far. Remember, there are still 21 days left to earn points and increase your chances of winning a prize! ... View more

    The Annual Points Contest has begun! The rules are the same, but the prizes are at their prize-iest!   For the next four weeks (today through April 8th), you’ll earn points just for participating in community discussions. The more points you earn, the more chances you have to win some fantastic prizes.   Details below!   How it works Just like in our previous Points Contests, starting today, certain actions you take in the community will earn you points. Those points will enter you to win a smattering of Meraki-branded prizes. You needn’t opt in — simply taking one of these point-earning actions will do:   Reply to any topic or blog post — 5 points Start a topic (e.g. ask a question, pose a discussion point) — 5 points   To optimize the bang for your buck, writing high-quality posts can earn you even more points:   Receive a kudo — 7 points Write an answer that gets marked as a solution — 10 points   As you can see, the more helpful your action to the community, the more points you receive!   There are 3 tiers that you can reach based on the number of points you amass. Within each tier, at the end of the month, we’ll randomly select winners to receive swag as outlined below:   Tier 1 requires 30 points and will have 50 randomly selected winners who’ll receive a pair of Meraki socks    .                     Tier 2 requires 100 points and will have 25 randomly selected winners who’ll receive a pair of Meraki socks and a Nike Meraki ball cap                       Tier 3 requires 200 points and will have 10 randomly selected winners who’ll receive a pair of Meraki socks, a Nike Meraki ball cap, and a Meraki bomber jacket (AKA a fully-fledged Meraki tuxedo)   AND, just like last round, everyone who earns enough points to achieve any tier will be entered to win the GRAND PRIZE of a brand new MV32 HW (with 5-year license)! Reaching Tier 1 gets you 1 entry, Tier 2 doubles your entries and… (guess what!?) Tier 3 triples your entries to win! That means that, over the course of this month, you could write just 6 replies or author just 3 solutions anywhere in the community and be entered to win one of these:     How will I know how I’m doing? To keep you all up to date on your progress, every Friday (starting next week) I’ll post a list of everyone who has reached Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3.   When are the winners chosen? On April 8th at 10 am PDT, the contest will end. We’ll then randomly select winners for each tier (50 for Tier 1, 25 for Tier 2, and 10 for Tier 3) and we’ll also draw the lucky winner of the GRAND PRIZE.   We’ll announce each of the winners here, so be sure to stay tuned!   More details: Promotion period: Friday, March 11th, 2022 at 10am PST through Friday April 8th, 2022 at 9:59am PDT Up to three possible entries per community member: Each time you progress a tier, your entry remains in the tier below as well (meaning more chances to win stuff!). If you are randomly selected to win in two or three separate tiers, you’ll receive only the prize from the highest level tier. If you are selected to receive the Grand Prize, this will be in addition to any tier-level prizes. Shipping limitations: We can only ship prizes to residents of these Eligible Countries  Complete rules and eligibility can be found here ... View more

Check out February's Members of the Month!   The Rising Star The Rising Star award recognizes our top new contributor. To achieve this award, you must fulfill BOTH of the below criteria:   Joined within the past 3 months Written the most posts in that time compared to your fellow new users   This month’s Rising Star award goes to @JustinGA. Since joining in January @JustinGA has posted some great questions on our Switching board, amassing 17 posts and their first kudo!     @JustinGA   Thanks for your posts @JustinGA — we hope you'll continue to find value from participating in our community!   Everybody Wins This award allows us to highlight the actions of a member whose recent contributions created a win for everyone involved.   This month's award goes to @RaphaelL for sharing their learning about Intel wireless adapters in hopes of saving readers from going through the same extensive troubleshooting they experienced.       @RaphaelL   Thanks @RaphaelL for sharing your find!   The Top Four Here, we congratulate our top four contributors of the month, based on the number of kudos they’ve received and accepted solutions they’ve authored. This month these amazing members provided the community with a total of 31 solutions and received a total of 274 kudos for their efforts.   @PhilipDAth 77 kudos 11 solutions MOTM score: 99 @ww 71 kudos 13 solutions MOTM score: 97 @KarstenI 68 kudos 3 solutions MOTM score: 74 @cmr 58 kudos 4 solutions MOTM score: 66 (MOTM score = kudos received + 2*solutions authored)   Congratulations to all of our ✨stellar contributors✨  and thanks to everyone who participated on the community in February!      If you come across a truly helpful thread, or a post that’s teeming with positivity and you’d like to nominate the author for the Everybody Wins award, you can submit your nomination here. ... View more

Check out January's Members of the Month!   The Rising Star The Rising Star award recognizes our top new contributor. To achieve this award, you must fulfill BOTH of the below criteria:   Joined within the past 3 months Written the most posts in that time compared to your fellow new users   This month’s Rising Star award goes to @Troy360. Since joining mid-January @Troy360 has posted working out an interesting problem in our Wireless LAN board, amassing 14 posts and 8 kudos!     @Troy360   Thanks for your posts @Troy360 — we hope you'll continue to find value from participating in our community!   Everybody Wins This award allows us to highlight the actions of a member whose recent contributions created a win for everyone involved.   This month's award goes to @ChrisMarriott for chiming in on an old thread with a Powershell script they made to resolve the issue, saving future readers some time!       @ChrisMarriott   Thanks @ChrisMarriott for sharing your script!   The Top Four Here, we congratulate our top four contributors of the month, based on the number of kudos they’ve received and accepted solutions they’ve authored. This month these amazing members provided the community with a total of 31 solutions and received a total of 359 kudos for their efforts.   @PhilipDAth 160 kudos 15 solutions MOTM score: 190 @ww 71 kudos 8 solutions MOTM score: 87 @KarstenI 67 kudos 6 solutions MOTM score: 79 @cmr 61 kudos 2 solutions MOTM score: 65 (MOTM score = kudos received + 2*solutions authored)   Congratulations to all of our ✨stellar contributors✨  and thanks to everyone who participated on the community in January!      If you come across a truly helpful thread, or a post that’s teeming with positivity and you’d like to nominate the author for the Everybody Wins award, you can submit your nomination here. ... View more

UPDATE: this contest has ended. Huge thanks to everyone for sharing your feedback! Congrats to our three randomly selected winners: @Tim-Gordon, @bryanssm, and @Adas.      We want to hear from you! Everyone who responds to the survey below will be entered into a drawing to win one of three Meraki sport quarter zip sweatshirts*     The survey closes on Tuesday, February 1st, at 3pm Pacific. Please submit your feedback today!   Loading…   * Terms, conditions, & eligibility information ... View more

    After carefully examining 6 months of member contributions, we are thrilled to finally reveal the 12 individuals who will be your 2022 cohort of Meraki Community All-Stars.   As a reminder, the criteria for being selected for All-Star status includes (but is not limited to) the following qualifications:   You must be a Meraki customer or partner You must be a member of the Meraki Community All-Stars are selected based on their previous 6-month All-Star Score, which takes into account their frequency and helpfulness in community participation All members will need to re-qualify annually (re-qualification is only needed each December, not June) Meraki employees will also qualitatively assess a candidate’s contributions   The All-Stars receive access to a variety of excellent perks:   Shiny new All-Star badge All-Star icon to the right of your name, so your peers can see you got cred Exclusive access to All-Star community forum (there are couches in there!) Random acts of delight and other rewards (like this one)   These twelve community members have shown, through the frequency and quality of their contributions over the past six months, that they are true All-Stars!   Meet the 2022 Community All-Stars:                         For more information about the 2022 All-Stars check out their bios below, and learn about all the All-Stars of years past in the Community All-Stars Hall of Fame.   BlakeRichardson BrandonS Brash Bruce cmr CptnCrnch GIdenJoe KarstenI Inderdeep PhilipDAth UCcert ww 🎉Please join me in congratulating these superlative community members!🎉 ... View more

Check out December's Members of the Month!   The Rising Star The Rising Star award recognizes our top new contributor. To achieve this award, you must fulfill BOTH of the below criteria:   Joined within the past 3 months Written the most posts in that time compared to your fellow new users   This month’s Rising Star award goes to @Lourdes. Since joining in early October, @Lourdes has posted a great array of questions on our Switching, Security / SD-WAN, and Wireless LAN boards, amassing an amazing 28 posts and 2 kudos!     @Lourdes   Thanks for your posts @Lourdes — we hope you'll continue to find value from participating in our community!   Everybody Wins This award allows us to highlight the actions of a member whose recent contributions created a win for everyone involved.   This month's award goes to @jbright. In early December, a customer of his experienced a severe storm which impacted their HVAC system, causing the temperature in their data center to rise. He describes how MTs helped the team intervene and provides a chart showing the event.      @jbright   Thanks @jbright for sharing the details of Meraki saving the day with the community!   The Top Four Here, we congratulate our top four contributors of the month, based on the number of kudos they’ve received and accepted solutions they’ve authored. This month these amazing members provided the community with a total of 25 solutions and received a total of 239 kudos for their efforts.   @KarstenI 102 kudos 9 solutions MOTM score: 120 @PhilipDAth 66 kudos 6 solutions MOTM score: 78 @ww 34 kudos 7 solutions MOTM score: 48 @cmr 37 kudos 3 solutions MOTM score: 43 (MOTM score = kudos received + 2*solutions authored)   Congratulations to all of our ✨stellar contributors✨  and thanks to everyone who participated on the community in December!      If you come across a truly helpful thread, or a post that’s teeming with positivity and you’d like to nominate the author for the Everybody Wins award, you can submit your nomination here. ... View more

UPDATE: well, that's a wrap on this year's Gnome in the Home! Thanks to all who followed the gnomes' clues using the Meraki API and special congrats to our final challenge winner: @PatWruk. The correct image was a festive little scene left by our friends:     Happy holidays and see you all in 2022!     MS gnome has been FOUND! Here he is, unplugging devices in another effort to save energy while the office is empty (so wise!):       Of all the correct entries that included the image above, we randomly selected our winner: @ManiNet11. Congratulations!   Well, all the gnomes have finished their preparation for the holidays and are off on their wild adventures:   MS always gets stuck with the luggage Of course, our little friends couldn’t leave without a little fanfare. Before departing, it appears they left a note on the door:   If you want to take a look around feel free to come in, here the KEY 3b13c065ca4aacd4a1d78d5f19fa5ff684cf3913 If you don’t know what to look for, well… there is on one device still online and it’s a ‘digital eye’ I’m pretty sure you can ask to take a picture or better a SNAPSHOT!   P.S.: never ask for things in the past or it will shout at you ‘Bad Request’   Go here to get started: https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!overview/api-key   The winner of this challenge will receive a Meraki bluetooth speaker:   How to win In order to win, comment below with the image you found by using the Meraki API. In the likely event that multiple submissions contain the correct image, we will randomly select 1 winner from that group of respondents. Note that all comments will remain hidden throughout the challenge. The winner will be announced tomorrow, Friday December 17th at 10am PST.   The Fine Print Limit one entry per community member. Submission period: Thursday, December 16th at 10am PST through Friday, December 17th, 2021 at 9:59am PST Prize will be a selection of Meraki swag with value not exceeding USD 50.00   Terms, conditions, & eligibility info for Gnome in the Home P.S. To follow along with the Gnome in the Home challenge all week, simply subscribe to the Community Announcements board. You can subscribe by clicking the "⋮ Options" menu at the top. From this menu, you can select "Subscribe" for email notifications. ... View more

UPDATE: MS gnome has been found! Thanks to everyone who helped find him and congrats to our randomly selected winner, @ManiNet11! See Day 3's post for the answer.   You did it! Thanks to everyone who managed to find AP gnome:       Of all the correct entries that included the image above, we randomly selected our winner: @rhbirkelund. Congratulations!   I’m very relieved to see that instead of his usual troublemaking, AP gnome was busy setting up port schedules to save energy while they’re away. For more information on port scheduling, check out our documentation site!   Of course, now it appears that MS gnome has slipped through our fingers — hopefully off to get important work done, but who knows! Fortunately, MS has left us with a clue about his location:   Access KEY: 8a652cc581ec658e2fa3cca746e0d83c6a38950a ‘Important communication for all the Gnomes’ Network Notes follow the trail from there...   Can you find MS Gnome? You can go here to get started: https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!overview/api-key   The winner of this challenge will receive a Meraki bluetooth speaker:     How to win In order to win, comment below with the picture of MS Gnome you found by using the Meraki API. In the likely event that multiple submissions contain the correct answer, we will randomly select 1 winner from that group of respondents. Note that all comments will remain hidden throughout the challenge. The winner will be announced tomorrow, Thursday December 16th at 10am PST.   The Fine Print Limit one entry per community member. Submission period: Wednesday, December 15th at 10am PST through Thursday, December 16th, 2021 at 9:59am PST Prize will be a selection of Meraki swag with value not exceeding USD 50.00   Terms, conditions, & eligibility info for Gnome in the Home P.S. To follow along with the Gnome in the Home challenge all week, simply subscribe to the Community Announcements board. You can subscribe by clicking the "⋮ Options" menu at the top. From this menu, you can select "Subscribe" for email notifications. ... View more

UDPATE: AP gnome has been found! Thanks to all who helped find him and congrats to winner @rhbirkelund! See Day 2's post for the answer.    It’s that time of year again - when the gnomes become antsy and the office/my house turns into gnome-party central. Fortunately for me, this year, they will be jet setting around for some holiday travels!   Before they go, they are prepping their Gnome Hideout for their long departure - shuttering up, powering down, etc. While I’m thrilled they’re finally taking some responsibility, I’m not entirely confident in their ability to actually take care of everything. They’ve been known to leave a mess or two:     And with the way they leave every door and window wide open, you’d think they were trying to heat the whole neighborhood!    This is where I hope the community can help! I’d like to believe that the gnomes can handle getting some work done in the last few days before their trip, buuut I’d feel a lot better if I had some proof. Can you do us all a favor and make sure they aren’t leaving the Hideout in shambles? If you do, there’s a chance to win a Meraki bluetooth speaker:     They’ve left a message with some clues on how to find their hideout — hopefully one of you can help figure it out!   Here is the message from AP Gnome:   I had an idea to help save energy off working hours at the Gnome Hideout, I'll start working on it right away! If you need me just enter the correct building I’ll leave you a NOTE. Here’s the key in case you can't find yours:   694ee60cad796aff244563f024d0cc380857c324   It’s good for all the buildings!   P.s. You can go here to get started: https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!overview/api-key   How to win In order to win, you must comment on this post providing a screenshot/picture/image proving that you found the Gnome in the “Gnome Hideout” by using the Meraki API. In the likely event that multiple submissions contain the correct image, we will randomly select 1 winner from that group of respondents. Note that all comments will remain hidden throughout the challenge. The winner will be announced tomorrow, Wednesday December 15th at 10am PST.   The Fine Print Limit one entry per community member. Submission period: Tuesday, December 14th at 10am PST through Wednesday, December 15th, 2021 at 9:59am PST Prize will be a selection of Meraki swag with value not exceeding USD 50.00 Official terms, conditions, and eligibility information   P.S. To follow along with the Gnome in the Home challenge all week, simply subscribe to the Community Announcements board. You can subscribe by clicking the "⋮ Options" menu at the top. From this menu, you can select "Subscribe" for email notifications. ... View more