Hi All,   I work for a pharma/nhs company that has a Meraki full stack and high end MS350's throughout.   We have a recently had some new patient monitoring devices installed that "require multicast".   This is literally the only instruction I had!  I remember installing multicast for IPTV in the past but it was only ever a tick box enable setting from memory.   I have enabled multicast routing on the neccessary VLAN that operate these devices but I'm now getting shouted at by the dashboard that no renevous point has been configured and multicast normally requires 2 interfaces not 1 etc.   Sorry I can't be more specific but can someone recommend to me what I need to do do to satisfy the requirements of "requires multicast".   I'm not sure what a rendevous point is   Cheers Ian ... View more

I'm sure this is a similar issue faced by many people during the pandemic with 90% of staff working remotely..... Scenario: Computer Name B6H74C2 connects to corporate VPN (using Meraki client/standard Windows VPN) IT then want to push windows updates and software to that machine occasionally (remotely). Often the software push fails saying the machine name could not be found or there was a network error. What is actually happening here is under DNS exists the following: B6H74C2      10.10.10.168 (Corporate VPN DHCP pool) B6H74C2       192.168.0.4 (their home network) Now I know exactly why this is and it's because the option to register this connection in DNS + the suffix option is ticked under the LAN adaptor AND the VPN adaptor. Simple solution is to untick it from the LAN adaptor however 6 months down the line when this user is back in the office they'll no longer register in DNS properly and may not get updates/software pushes.   For some machines we are also getting IPv6 registered so in extreme case 1 computer connected on the VPN can register 6 IP's   VPN IPv4 LAN IPv4 WiFi IPv4 VPN IPv6 LAN IPv6 WiFi IPv6   Also is there a way to launch the VPN automatically on startup?  I know you can click on it on login page but we have a increasing amount of VPN dodgers at the moment in our workforce which makes patching hard work! ... View more

We have 12 MV Cameras and a full suite of Meraki products which we manage from a single dashboard i.e MX, MS, MR, MDM, MV.   We have a small hospital that has 3 monitoring rooms that we have to provide (legally) a constant stream of video.  We don't use retention and it has to be a live feed monitoring for safety reasons i.e real time accident response.   We recently adhered to guidelines by Cyber essentials in enforcing geo-locational dashboard login and also 2 Factor authentication using google authenticator.   This is all very well for admin changes to a switch or AP etc but when you need someone to constantly monitor a video screen it's a nightmare.  The screen often times out and they have to log back in and most staff are non-technical so having to navigate to google authenticator on a mobile etc to log back in means a patient could have had an accident in that time and staff will have missed it.   So far Meraki support have said the only option is to peel out the Camera network into a new organisation meaning we now have 2 dashboards to monitor/configure our network - defeating the whole point of the solution.  Even on a separate org we'd still probably need to login every 30days aswell....?   Does anyone know of a better solution or should we have gone with a different, more suited, traditional CCTV system?   I've come to learn that Meraki product development can be very stubborn and slow to react to customer outcry as they have done with IKEv2 etc and they won't release roadmaps either so noone knows what is to come. ... View more

Has anyone had any joy pushing policies/settings (wifi/vpn) to Windows 10 devices?  We managed to do it once for 1 or 2 devices but any subsequent changes don’t get re-pushed and 90% of other machines just fail to communicate.  App/software pushing is same result. we have a case that has gone all the way to design team and we’re sadly now looking at dropping product due to no guarantee fix time.  Apparently affecting multiple customers.   a fundamental basic function like this is crazy!?! IOS & Android stuff seems fine...? we’re full Meraki mx, ms, mr, mdm ... View more