As we wrap up 2024, now is the perfect time to pause and reflect on all that we have achieved together in the Meraki Community this year. Your dedication and enthusiasm helped enhance the community experience and foster a vibrant learning environment. Together, we reached some impressive milestones! 🎉🎆     The year began with the biggest transformation of the Meraki Community to date: a complete redesign to align with the look and feel of the Meraki dashboard. This massive undertaking was expertly led by @CarolineS and @Jayne, whose hard work and coordination made it possible. Thank you to all of our 2024 All-Stars and members who provided invaluable feedback on the design and functionality 🙏♥️. You guided us to make solutions easier to spot in long discussion threads, and we encouraged you to write and mark more solutions than ever before. Based on these numbers, you didn’t fail to deliver!   In 2024, you shared more solutions, gave each other more kudos, and welcomed more new members than ever before.      2024 was a year of learning and growth for our community. Many of you kicked off the year by sharing your 2024 networking resolutions with us, with aspirations of renewing certifications and expanding your knowledge. 📚🧑‍🎓 Judging by the impressive number of hours you spent in the Learning Hub this year, it looks like many of you achieved that goal in 2024. The team also introduced a range of new learning paths – including Cisco Meraki Network Engineer: Fundamental and Unifying Cisco Hardware and Licensing with Wi-Fi 7 – to provide you with even more opportunities for growth and development. We’re thrilled to see the spirit of learning alive and well as we head into 2025!     We also introduced a brand new type of bite-sized, interactive learning content called Network Nibbles. In just a few minutes, you can learn a skill to apply to your Meraki networking knowledge with a short video, hands-on activity, and assessment. We hope you find these as fun to complete as we do! Already more than 500 of you have viewed a Nibble and more than 100 completed the assessment. You can check out the Nibbles here: Zero Friction Wireless with Wi-Fi 7, Cisco Networking Subscription Licensing with Meraki, and Introducing Wireless Automatic Frequency Coordination. We look forward to continuing to expand on the content we offer in the Meraki Community so we can keep learning together!   Finally, our incredible Demo team launched a number of new demos that were used by more than 2,000 of you to help our partners showcase more solutions and understand the value Meraki brings. Among these were [Demo Simulation]Cisco SD-WAN Interconnects, NPI Demo: Zero-Friction Wireless with Wi-Fi 7, Cisco Cloud Management and Monitoring for Catalyst, Automatic Frequency Coordination(AFC) in MR30.7+, MT40 Power Schedules and Sustainability Reporting are available for demos, and Sensor Data on the MS Summary Page. We look forward to demonstrating even more value with Meraki Solutions next year! 🚀Thanks to @ShawnHu and @Phi-L for your continued dedication to spreading the word here in the Meraki Community.   There is an African proverb our team often quotes that is particularly apt for the Community: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” It’s true that when we’re together in the Meraki Community, we raise each other to a level beyond what is possible on our own. The collective knowledge found here is truly astounding.   As we look forward to 2025, we are excited to continue building on this momentum. Thank you to each and every one of you for your contributions, feedback, and passion. Together, we are making the Meraki Community a place of innovation, learning, and collaboration.    Here's to another successful year ahead! ... View more

Update: The gnomes have been found! They are back snug in their little gnome beds. Thank you to everyone who helped find them! Congrats to our 3 randomly selected winners: @JungleCoder95, @TechMan, and @PaulBaker 🎉   The gnomes are back, and they are up to their old holiday shenanigans again! If you haven’t been around the community during the winter holidays before, you may not know about the Gnome in the Home Challenge. This is a beloved annual tradition where the Meraki gnomes MV and Switch play some festive pranks  that usually involve hiding in the forums. Just when I thought this year would be different, and perhaps our little gnomes had finally matured…   When I walked into my office this morning, I was surprised to discover they weren’t in their usual spot on my desk. The pair seemed to have gone missing. Where could they be?!  As I searched around for them, I began to get worried. Finally, I discovered them hiding out underneath the tree - wrapping some last minute Switchmas gifts!      After I got them settled back into their cozy little gnome beds, I sat down to get some real work done, only to discover that they had run off again! This time, though, I think they’re hiding in the Meraki Community. Can you help me find them?    They left this clue for us: In a place where tech and community collide, A camera’s name is what needs to be tried. We two are hidden where threads intertwine, In the Meraki forum, we have left our sign.   If you find them lurking somewhere around here, please reply to this blog post with "I FOUND THE GNOME!" and a link to the post where they are hiding in the community.   Comments will remain hidden throughout the duration of this contest. Then, on December 17th at 11am ET, we will draw 3 at random from those who correctly found the gnomes’ location to win a Cisco Meraki 3-in-1 puzzle.     Thank you for helping me return the gnomes safely home!    Terms, conditions, & eligibility info for Gnome in the Home ... View more

Check out November’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 @MirzaDz. Since joining our community in October, @MirzaDz has amassed an impressive 30 posts and 6 kudos by asking detailed questions in the Security & SD-WAN board. Mirza never hesitates to follow up with a clarifying question if more information is needed to get to a solution, either. See all of their contributions on their profile.   @MirzaDz   Thanks for your posts @MirzaDz — 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 @Jamieinbox for sharing the code she created after following the advice she got from a fellow community member here in the Wireless forum. The code she made will report on different networks across an organization, allowing you to list and categorize the networks, as well as run regular reports to share data and track progress. By sharing this resource with the Meraki Community for anyone to use, Jamie is helping countless members who find her post in the future.    @Jamieinbox    Thanks @Jamieinbox for taking the time to help your fellow community members and do the right thing!   The Top Twelve   Here, we congratulate our top twelve 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 an impressive 46 solutions in all and received a total of 1,154 kudos for their efforts. Incredible!     @cmr 245 kudos 7 solutions MOTM score: 259 @PhilipDAth 132 kudos 7 solutions MOTM score: 146 @RaphaelL 123 kudos 7 solutions MOTM score: 137 @KarstenI 117 kudos 4 solutions MOTM score: 125 @GIdenJoe 81 kudos 4 solutions MOTM score: 89 @DarrenOC 84 kudos 2 solutions MOTM score: 88 @BlakeRichardson 77 kudos 2 solutions MOTM score: 81 @Brash 73 kudos 3 solutions MOTM score: 79 @rhbirkelund 61 kudos 4 solutions MOTM score: 69 @RWelch 65 kudos 0 solutions MOTM score: 65 @ww 48 kudos 3 solutions MOTM score: 54 @Inderdeep 48 kudos 3 solutions MOTM score: 54 (MOTM score = kudos received + 2*solutions authored)     Employee of the Month   This award allows us to highlight the actions of a Meraki employee whose contributions have made a significant impact on the community or helped our members in some way.   This month’s award goes to @JosRus. Josh has been answering a number of posts in the Meraki Community throughout the month of November. He most recently provided solutions in the Wireless, Switching, and Smart Cameras boards - just to name a few! We appreciate him sharing his expertise to help others here in the Technical Forums.    @JosRus   Thank you for your continued helpfulness to Meraki Community members!   Congratulations to all of our ✨stellar contributors✨  and thanks to everyone who participated on the community in November!      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

  It’s the end of our month-long Solutions Challenge and the results are IN! We were thrilled at how much excitement this contest generated. Over the past month, you accepted 87 solutions and authored 77! Those are some pretty impressive stats. 🤩   Before I announce the winners, here’s a quick reminder about how the winners were selected: Community members were ranked based on point-earning actions taken in the community: Tier 1 required 5+ points, Tier 2 required 10+ points, and Tier 3 required 30+ points An entry to each Tier gave you a chance to win that Tier’s prize Each time you progressed to a higher tier, your entry also remained in the tier(s) below. This means you were entered to win all 3 Tiers’ prizes, so it’s possible for you to reach Tier 3 and earn Tier 2’s prize Tier 1 earned you 1 entry to win the MX85, Tier 2 earned you 2 entries, and Tier 3 earned you 3 entries If you are tagged below, you have been randomly drawn to win that Tier's prize so expect to hear from me to confirm your mailing address If your mailing address is not located in our Eligible Countries list, we will not be able to ship to your country   On to the winners! More than 90 of you qualified to win one or more prizes and more than 65 of you were selected!   Tier 1 Winners: @SJDR  @HikingBozo  @RahulPrasadh  @from_afar  @Evgeniy  @AnM  @MirzaDz  @florin  @SamehAbdalla  @Richard7  @marcosalef  @kima25  @LostInTranslate  @Mike128  @sailorli96  @ShoaibAbbad  @triumphwalk  @shlomoi  @DakineNexus  @Ulfen  @tman  @yaypingworks  @SeanW  @thomasthomsen  @AnMo  @Prince  @martinrboyd  @Bucket  @MauroF  @SimonReach  @paulinster  @Dunky  @brennanc01  @Shubh3738  @Rexgao  @Decaone  @double_virgule  @MaKo  @marce1000  @Zee9  @alemabrahao  @BusterDude  @MartinLL  @mrjelly  @jimmyt234  @Digitaltek  @RWelch  @djgrothe  @The_Roo  @Cfcc    Tier 2 Winners: @Mloraditch  @rwiesmann  @JonnyM  @LopezJ  @marcus_kisi  @lvsanita  @Paccers  @Holli69  @MartinS  @gregpalmer2    Tier 3 Winners: @cmr  @GIdenJoe  @RaphaelL  @KarstenI  @Brash    FINALLY, announcing the proud new owner of an MX85 with a 5-year license, our grand prize winner is.....   🏅🏆🎥 @AnthonyCho!!! 🎉 🎉 🎉   Congrats to everyone who participated! Keep an eye out for a message from me containing your prize info. Don’t forget to subscribe to our contest feed for updates on future contests! ... View more

  UPDATE: this contest has ended! Stay tuned for the final round up and the announcement of our many winners! ⏳   UPDATE #2: The numbers are in, and we have our winners! Congratulations to the 65+ folks who won and the more than 90 who qualified. ‌🎉‌🎉   Attention: This is not a drill! 🚨🚨 You have just ONE WEEK left to qualify in Solutions Challenge Month by earning enough points to be entered to win an MX85. Remember, it takes only 5 points to qualify, so you could mark a single reply to one of your posts as the solution and be in! You could also answer many questions in the forums and pester the OPs until one of them finally marks your post as the solution (Maaaybe not the best call for endearing yourself to your fellow community members, but if it qualifies you for the contest, right?!)   Whatever route you decide to take, you have until next Monday to rack up those points!    Now, on to the scores. As of today, more than 88 members have earned enough points to qualify! 💃 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 MX85.    🏆 Members who reached Tier 1 by earning 5 points: @B33b5  @RWelch  @marce1000  @ShanePittman  @from_afar  @LostInTranslate  @SeanW  @The_Roo  @yaypingworks  @djgrothe  @thomasthomsen  @kima25  @EtanaMeraki  @AnthonyCho  @SimonReach  @Mike128  @Fabian1  @Ulfen  @paulinster  @andyyu1  @Bucket  @Unsuited0873  @shlomoi  @Evgeniy  @YoinkZ  @Richard7  @Decaone  @Zee9  @frosten5117  @RahulPrasadh  @TomMc  @Hudson1776  @sailorli96  @Digitaltek  @BusterDude  @Catalin19  @Atkguru  @triumphwalk  @SamehAbdalla  @rodeddie  @martinrboyd  @SJDR  @AnMo  @BrianDipaolo  @MaKo  @DakineNexus  @florin  @mrjelly  @Rida1  @Rexgao  @RSquared719  @fdharmawan  @ddawson100  @Phx  @WayneRCN    🏆 Members who reached Tier 2 by earning 10 points: @Mloraditch  @ww @BlakeRichardson  @Inderdeep  @kYutobi  @alemabrahao  @Dunky  @marcus_kisi  @brennanc01  @tman  @lvsanita  @DarrenOC  @MirzaDz  @Paccers  @double_virgule  @MartinLL  @JonnyM  @MartinS  @LopezJ  @rwiesmann  @Holli69  @Shubh3738  @Prince    🏆 Members who reached Tier 3 by earning 30 points: @cmr  @RaphaelL  @rhbirkelund  @KarstenI  @MauroF  @jimmyt234  @GIdenJoe  @Brash  @PhilipDAth  @AmitPanchal  ... View more

UPDATE: This contest is now closed. Thank you to everyone who made their first posts this week! 🎉 Congratulations to our 10 randomly selected winners:  @Perazzelli, @cham, @Nafets, @andyyu1, @RyanNelson_9, @lozanosergio, @EtanaMeraki, @Balachander, @Smula, and @Andreas_Swe!!!   Putting yourself out there takes courage! Especially on a public forum for the world to see. That’s why, this week, we want to recognize the brave folks who take the plunge and make their first post on the Meraki Community.    Everyone who posts for the first time this week (12am EST Monday, November 11 to 11:59pm EST Sunday, November 17) will be entered into a drawing to win one of 10 Meraki Swag Packs.    What counts as a post, though? New forum topics, replies, and comments on blog articles all will earn you entry to the contest, so long as your post contains content and follows the community guidelines.   If you’re in need of some inspiration, here are a few easy ways to participate: Introduce yourself or welcome a new member to the community on our Member Intros board.  Share your favorite joke on our Networking Jokes thread.  Ask a question in one of our product boards. Check out the unanswered questions to see if you can lend a hand. Ooh and ahh over the projects in our Projects Gallery.   How to enter   Make your first post (a new topic, a reply to an existing topic, or a comment on a blog) before 11:59pm EST Sunday, November 17th.    How to win   On Monday, November 18th, we will draw 10 winners at random to win a Meraki Swag Pack that includes a Meraki notebook, totebag, keychain zip pouch, socks, and a long sleeve shirt.      The Fine Print Limit one entry per community member  Submission period: Monday, November 11, 2024 at 12am EST through Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 11:59pm EST Complete rules and eligibility can be found here. ... View more

Check out October’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 @double_virgule. Since joining the community in August, @double_virgule has amassed an impressive 30 posts and 26 kudos by sharing knowledge and recommendations to help others across the community, including in the Security & SD-WAN, Wireless, and New Meraki Users boards. Check out his contributions on his profile.   @double_virgule   Thanks for your posts @double_virgule — 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 @AlexGregoire for asking a good question with enough details and context included to make it easy for other members to answer. Not only that, but @AlexGregoire followed up to mark the solution and thank the member who helped him. By marking the solution, he helps countless community members in the future who may share the same question to more easily find the answer.   @AlexGregoire   Thanks @AlexGregoire for taking the time to help your fellow Community members and do the right thing!   The Top Twelve   Here, we congratulate our top twelve 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 an impressive 60 solutions in all and received a total of 1,557 kudos for their efforts. Incredible!     @PhilipDAth 285 kudos 8 solutions MOTM score: 301 @cmr 281 kudos 7 solutions MOTM score: 295 @GIdenJoe 139 kudos 6 solutions MOTM score: 151 @DarrenOC 145 kudos 3 solutions MOTM score: 151 @MartinLL 118 kudos 9 solutions MOTM score: 136 @KarstenI 106 kudos 6 solutions MOTM score: 118 @RaphaelL 106 kudos 4 solutions MOTM score: 114 @rhbirkelund 91 kudos 2 solutions MOTM score: 95 @Brash 84 kudos 2 solutions MOTM score: 88 @RWelch 75 kudos 6 solutions MOTM score: 87 @ww 65 kudos 4 solutions MOTM score: 73 @Mloraditch 62 kudos 3 solutions MOTM score: 68 (MOTM score = kudos received + 2*solutions authored)     Employee of the Month   This award allows us to highlight the actions of a Meraki employee whose contributions have made a significant impact on the community or helped our members in some way.   This month’s award goes to @PaulF for providing a detailed step-by-step guide on How to dewarp an RTSP stream from a Meraki Fisheye Camera. By taking extra time to document these instructions and share them with the Meraki Community, Paul has gone above and beyond to provide a helpful resource many members can use.      @PaulF   Thank you for your continued helpfulness to the Meraki Community members!   Congratulations to all of our ✨stellar contributors✨  and thanks to everyone who participated on the community in October!      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! Stay tuned for the final round up and the announcement of our many winners!⏳   UPDATE #2: The numbers are in, and we have our winners! Congratulations to the 65+ folks who won and the more than 90 who qualified. ‌🎉‌🎉   Today begins our first-ever month-long Solutions Challenge! All throughout November, you can earn points that will enter you to win some sweet Meraki swag simply for marking and sharing solutions.    Solutions are the bread and butter of our Technical Forums. When a post is marked as solved, it’s easier and quicker to find the answer you’re looking for. And when you’re the one to answer a question, having your response marked as the Accepted Solution adds to your expertise and status here in the Meraki Community. It’s a win-win all around!    How it works   You don’t need to opt-in to participate in this contest. Simply take one of the following points-earning actions, and we’ll do the rest: Mark a reply to your question or topic as the “Accepted Solution” - 5 points Write an answer that gets marked as a solution - 10 points   If you aren’t sure how to mark a reply to your post as the accepted solution, fear not! We have instructions for you here.    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 5 points and will have 50 randomly selected winners who will receive a Cisco Meraki beanie. Tier 2 requires 10 points and will have 10 randomly selected winners who will receive a Cisco Meraki beanie and Kopi Mug. Tier 3 requires 30 points and will have 5 randomly selected winners who will receive a Cisco Meraki beanie, Kopi Mug, and a North Face Apex duffel bag. And everyone who earns enough points to achieve any tier will be entered to win the GRAND PRIZE of an MX85 with a 5-year license.  Reaching Tier 1 gets you one entry, Tier 2 doubles your entries and… (guess what!?) Tier 3 triples your entries to win!   How will I know how I’m doing?   To keep you all up-to-date on your progress, every Monday (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 November 30th at 11:59pm ET, the challenge will end. We will then randomly select winners for each tier (50 for Tier 1, 10 for Tier 2, and 5 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: Monday, November 4th, 2024 at 11am ET through Saturday, November 30th, 2024 at 11:59pm ET 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. Complete rules and eligibility can be found here ... View more

Today we celebrate our most recent member to earn the prestigious title of “Kind of a big deal” here in the Meraki Community:     🌟 🏆 🎉 Congratulations to @thomasthomsen!  🎉 🏆 🌟   He joins an impressive cohort of 15 members and 13 All-Stars who share in the achievement. While we keep the criteria to earn this coveted rank a secret, you can rest assured it takes a LOT of participation and time spent in the community to reach “Kind of a big deal” status.    @thomasthomsen has been a community member since 2018. During that time, he has contributed an impressive 506 posts, 307 kudos, and 11 solutions by sharing feedback in private beta groups and participating in discussions across a number of boards, including Security & SD-WAN, Wireless, and Switching, among many more.    Thank you to @thomasthomsen for being a regular here on the Meraki Community and chiming in to help others so often!   As you continue to post in the Meraki Community, you too will see your user rank change. These are the fun titles that appear next to your username on posts and in your profile. You can check out the full list of Meraki Community user ranks here.    Who will be the next member to rank up?! ... View more

  UPDATE: This contest has ended. Thank you all for giving us such a fright! 👻🎃 Congrats to our three randomly selected winners: @SamRo, @Volodymyr, and @BFN 🎉   It’s the spookiest time of year. 👀 October means that Halloween is fast approaching, and with it comes pumpkins, candy, and all things horrifying! We’d love for you to give us a fright during the return of our hauntingly good Halloween contest.   Tell us about your encounters with nightmarish networks, spooky servers, and petrifying permissions. What’s your scariest IT story? Remember, picture submissions count, too!    Read on, if you dare...    In case you need a little inspiration to get your creative juices flowing, check out these scary submissions from last year.   One stormy night, @BlakeRichardson was fixing an external comms cabinet when he discovered this creepy crawly sight 🐜🐜🐜  A Meraki switch full of ants!     What about this poor soul? He's being eaten alive by the dreaded cable monster! 👾 Luckily, this is the before photo. @Jagatiya143 lived to tell the tale of how he wrangled this monster into submission after installing Meraki.     Now, it's your turn! What scary scenes have you seen?   How to win   To enter the contest, share your IT horror story or picture in the comments below before 10:59am ET on October 15th. Be kind in your tales and remember not to use any identifying information! We will then randomly draw 3 winners to receive a Cisco Meraki Hat.      The Fine Print Limit one entry per community member  Submission period: October 8th, 2024 at 11am EST through October 15th, 2024 at 10:59am EST Complete rules and eligibility can be found here.   ... View more