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Microsoft Teams Rooms devices support a one-touch experience for joining third-party online meetings, also referred to as Direct guest join. When enabled, you can use a Teams Rooms device to join meetings hosted on Cisco WebEx and Zoom just as easily as you can join meetings hosted in Microsoft Teams.
Before you can join third-party meetings from a Teams Rooms device, you need to do the following:
- Configure the Teams Rooms device's Exchange Online room mailbox to process invites for third-party meetings.
- Make sure your organization doesn't have any policies that would prevent you from connecting to third-party meeting services.
- Configure your Teams Rooms devices to allow third-party meetings.
The following sections show you how to do each of these steps.
Step 1: Allow calendar invite processing for third-party meetings
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The first thing you need to do to enable a one-touch join experience from a Team Rooms device is set the calendar processing rules for the device's Exchange Online room mailbox. The room mailbox needs to allow external meetings and keep the message body and subject so it can see the URL needed to join the third-party meeting. To set these room mailbox options using the Set-CalendarProcessing cmdlet, do the following:
Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell. For more information, see Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell with Basic authentication or Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell using multi-factor authentication, depending on your authentication method.
Get the User Principal Name (UPN) of the room mailbox if you don't know it by running the following command:
Find the name of the room mailbox associated with your Teams Rooms device and make note of its UPN.
After you find the room mailbox's UPN, run the following command. Replace
<UserPrincipalName>with the room mailbox's UPN:
Learn more about Exchange Online PowerShell.
Step 2: Configure Office 365 Threat Protection and link rewrite
To enable the one-touch join experience, meeting join link information from the third-party meeting needs to be present and readable in the meeting invite. If your organization uses the Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection Safe Links feature, or if you use a third-party solution that scans all incoming and outgoing URLs for threats, it may change the meeting join URLs and make the meeting unrecognizable by the Teams Rooms device. To make sure this doesn't happen, you need to add the third-party meeting service's URLs to the ATP Safe Links 'do not rewrite' list or the third-party URL rewrite exception list.
To add third-party meeting service URLs to the ATP Safe Links 'do not rewrite' list, follow the steps in Set up a custom do-not-rewrite URLs list using ATP Safe Links. If you use a third-party solution, refer to the instructions for that solution to add URLs to its URL rewrite exception list.
Here are some example entries that you may need to add to your ATP Safe Links 'do not rewrite' list or third-party URL rewrite exception list:
- Cisco WebEx
*.webex.com* - Zoom
*.zoom.us*,*.zoom.com*,*.zoomgov.com*
For a complete list of URLs to add to your ATP Safe Links 'do not rewrite' list or third-party URL rewrite exception list, contact the third-party meeting service provider you want to accept meeting invites from.
Caution
Only add URLs that you trust to your ATP Safe Links 'do not rewrite' list or third-party URL rewrite exception list.
Step 3: Enable third-party meetings on device
The last step you need to do is allow each Teams Rooms device to join third-party meetings. Third-party meetings require a username and email address to join them. If the username and email address that you need to use is different than the device's room mailbox, you need to add them to your device. You can do this in the device settings or in the XML config file.
Use device settings
To configure the Teams Rooms device using its touchscreen, do the following:
- On the Microsoft Teams Rooms device, select More ....
- Select Settings, and then enter the device administrator username and password.
- Go to the Meetings tab and select Cisco WebEx, Zoom, or both.
- If you want to join meetings with the username and email address associated with the room mailbox, select Join with room info.
- If you want to join meetings with an alternate username and email address, select Join with custom info and enter username and email address you'd like to use.
- Select Save and exit. Your device will restart.
Use the SkypeSettings.xml configuration file
The following settings can be added to the SkypeSettings.xml file located in C:UsersSkypeAppDataLocalPackagesMicrosoft.SkypeRoomSystem_8wekyb3d8bbweLocalState. For more information about the SkypeSettings.xml file, see Manage a Microsoft Teams Rooms console settings remotely with an XML configuration file.
To enable Cisco WebEx meetings, set the WebExMeetingsEnabled XML element to True, as follows.
To enable Zoom meetings, set the ZoomMeetingsEnabled XML element to True, as follows.
You can optionally specify a custom username and email address to join third-party meetings using the following XML elements. If the values you provide aren't valid, the Teams Rooms device will default to use room mailbox username and email address.
Note
To join Cisco WebEx meeting from a Teams Rooms device, the Cisco meeting needs to be hosted using Cisco WebEx web application version WBS 40.7 or later.
How to Connect Zoom and Cisco Webex in 2021
Want to connect Zoom and Cisco Webex users in your team?
Cisco provides future-proof technology built by a company with a heritage in communication.
Zoom makes video more accessible, whether you’re connecting with employees or contractors.
No wonder it’s hard to choose between the two.
The good news? You don’t have to.
This post details all the ways you can connect Zoom and Cisco Webex.
Does Zoom work with Cisco Webex?
Different parts of Zoom and Cisco Webex can work together.
To combine the tools you can:
- Use API connectors
- Sync your messages and chat using message interoperability
- Launch Cisco meetings from Zoom Rooms
- Set triggers in third-party tools like Zapier
Let’s walk through your options below.
If you don’t want to read through this post, and just want to get on the waitlist for Zoom <> Webex interop, join our waitlist here.
Connect Zoom and Cisco Webex with API connectors
You can launch Zoom meetings from Cisco Webex using pre-built API connectors.
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Teams with an existing Cisco conferencing room can integrate calendaring with Zoom using the one-tap connector.
Join a Zoom meeting from Webex Room Kit
To do this, you’ll need:
- A Zoom account with a connector license.
- A Windows PC, server, or virtual machine.
- Cisco hardware like a desk phone or conference phone.
- Network access to the Cloud Room Connector.
- A calendar set up with Google, Exchange, or Microsoft 365.
In your browser, sign in to your Zoom account and click on the Cisco/Polycom rooms section. If you don’t have the right license, you’ll have to buy one.
- Click the API connectors tab
- Tap Add API Connector
- Enter the network information
- Click Save
After adding the Zoom API Connector, you’ll need to install it on a computer/server, To do this, click the install button to download the ZoomAPIConnector.msi
Note: these have to be on the network you entered in the network information.
Installing Zoom API connector software
To create a connection between Zoom and Cisco Webex, you’ll need to connect your Zoom API tech. You can do this through a Windows Server, Virtual Machine, or on a local computer.
- Go to the Cisco/Polycom rooms section of your Room Management section on Zoom.
- Click API Connectors and Install the connector.
- Double click on the ZoomAPIConnecter.msi file, to open the wizard.
For this process to work, you need to keep your Zoom API tech running at all times. You can do this on a Windows Server or virtual machine.
After installation, you can use the Room Connector API. This allows you to add provisioning settings for your Cisco room system. Start by signing into Zoom. Then click on Room Management > Cisco/Polycom rooms, and click on Add Room.
Here, you’ll need to fill out about your connection. Make sure you have the name of the room, type of room, serial number, and your device username and password. You might need the IP address, registration password, and which calendars you’re using.
You can also identify which Cisco room you’re using with a Meeting ID. Admins can enable Join Meeting options, and access things like SIP call control and H.323 gatekeeper too.
Sync Zoom Chat and Webex using message interoperability
API connectors help you launch meetings in Webex or Zoom from alternative hardware systems, but they don’t cover messaging or chats between the two platforms.
Message interoperability connects the messages you send in Webex to Zoom Chat.
This means that when you message someone from Webex, and they use Zoom, they still see that message.
The same is true vice versa. You can send messages from Zoom Chat to Webex.
And it’s not just messages. Message interoperability includes all parts of the messaging experience – like message threads, edits, files, GIFs, and reactions.
By installing Mio in the background, you can ensure you don’t need to switch between Webex and Zoom based on what each member of your business uses.
Employees can use the tools that they like most, without compromise.
While we’re working on message interoperability for Webex and Zoom Chat, join our waitlist to be the first to know when it’s live.
Using Cisco Webex Meetings with Zoom Rooms
You can join Cisco Webex Meetings through Zoom Rooms hardware too.
When you choose this approach, you connect with the Zoom Room audio input. Here, you can see the Webex Meeting output on your Zoom Room display screen.
All you need is a web conferencing meeting tool (Cisco Webex Meetings) with dial-in features to get started.
To use Cisco Webex Meetings with Zoom Rooms:
- Start your web conferencing meeting but don’t dial into the audio bridge on your computer.
- Share your laptop screen to the Zoom Rooms display. The display will project shared content from your computer to the screen.
- Dial into the audio bridge of Webex Meetings using the dial-out feature for Zoom Rooms.
You can also call H.323 or SIP devices from a Zoom Room.
Going even further, check out this example from Brian Haley, Collaboration Engineer at No Saturn.
“I’ve set up a “Join Zoom” activity button on all of our Cisco video systems that will prompt for the Zoom Meeting number and passcode. It then dials right into [meeting].[passcode]@zomcrc.com
Zapier integration for Zoom and Cisco Webex
There are a handful of Zapier integrations that you can access to make connections between Cisco Webex and Zoom too.
For instance, with Zapier you can:
- Trigger new meetings in Zoom through Webex.
- Trigger new recordings in Zoom through Webex, and vice-versa.
- Create Zoom videos when you click on the video option in Cisco Webex.
This option is great for conducting basic operations like the examples above.
If there’s a method you use to connect Zoom and Cisco Webex, and you think we should add it, reach out to us on Twitter or LinkedIn.
Don’t forget to join the waitlist for Webex and Zoom Chat interop here.
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