o ensure you get onboarded quickly, Zoom has created several resources to help you dive right in while waiting to meet with our team. We recommend that you start your journey by reviewing our Administrator Deployment Guide and signing up for Live Training. 

Next, be sure to check out our Zoom Help Center, where you can find a vast amount of step-by-step guides, articles, and short videos all geared towards helping you get started with Zoom! 

We recommend watching our initial favorites, and you and your team will be up and running in no time.

• Scheduling Meetings for Gmail
  
• Scheduling Meetings for Outlook
  
• In Meeting Basic Controls
  
• Screen Sharing Basics 
  

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Report a User Feature: Meeting hosts and co-hosts can report a user in their meeting who is misusing the Zoom platform. Found in the Security icon, the option sends a report to Zoom’s Trust & Safety team for review. The report can include a specific offense, description, and optional screenshot. The Report a User function is on by default but can be turned off at the account, group, and user level in the Zoom web portal.

Leaving/Ending Meeting Enhancements: With this new UI update, hosts can clearly decide between ending or leaving a meeting. If the host leaves, they can now easily select a new host and have the confidence that the right person is left with host privileges. The host will now be required to assign a new host when leaving the meeting. Additionally, the pop-up message asking if the host would like to leave or end the meeting will now be displayed by the Leave button. 

Setting to Allow Sharing of Cloud Recordings: Account owners and admins can enable or disable shared cloud recordings to prevent users from sharing their cloud recordings. This setting is available for individual recordings and at the account, group, and user level and can be locked at the group or account level. 

Add Expiration Date for Shared Cloud Recordings: Users can now choose to expire the link for a cloud recording after a set number of days or on a custom date. This setting is available for individual recordings and at the account, group, and user level and can be locked at the group or account level. 

Minimum Password Length of 6 Characters for Meeting and Shared Recording Passwords: The minimum password length for both meeting and shared recording passwords will now be 6 characters. 

Profile Picture Control: Account admins and hosts can disable the ability for participants to show their profile picture and also prevent them from changing it in a meeting.

Show the Connected Data Center: Users can see which data center they are connected to by clicking on by clicking on the info icon at the top left of the client window.

Select Data Center Regions when Scheduling a Meeting: Users can now select which data center regions they would like their in meeting traffic to use when scheduling a meeting.

[Breaking API Changes] New Password Requirements: This new setting allows account owners and admins to set meeting password and recording password requirements (on the account settings page). This change will affect the below API endpoints if your current meeting or recording passwords do not follow the new password requirement settings if enabled. 

Meeting 
POST /users/{userId}/meetings
PATCH /meetings/{meetingId}
POST/users/{userId}/webinars
PATCH /webinars/{webinarId}

Recording
PATCH /meetings/{meetingId}/recordings/settings

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While we’re looking ahead to a better and brighter 2021, we also wanted to look back for a moment and recap some highlights from the past year. We hope that you’ll continue to take advantage of these features, empowering yourself and your workforce through all that Zoom has to offer.

• End-to-End Encryption: As our customer base exponentially expanded throughout the year, security became Zoom’s number one priority. Read more about how E2EE has kept your meetings safe and secure and the trajectory of privacy and security at Zoom.
  
• OnZoom: Launched in October, OnZoom is an online event marketplace providing immersive experiences for people of all ages. Customers have the ability to convert existing meetings into OnZoom events to fit the needs and goals of the objectives at hand.
  
• Zoom for Home: We brought Zoom Rooms to you with this at-home collaboration solution.
  

It’s been an honor and privilege to work with you and your organization as you’ve navigated Zoom, and I look forward to continuing working with you this year and for years to come. As always, thank you for choosing Zoom.

March 2021 Newsletter This month, we continue to think about the hybrid workforce as employees return to the office part-time, full-time, or not at all. With that transition comes conversations about security, productivity, and connectivity. To answer those questions, we are building forward with innovative security measures, personalized meetings features, and virtual events designed to help you achieve your business goals.

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HOW TOS Zoom Pro Tips: 3 Ways to Liven Up Your Meetings  Bringing an element of fun and levity to a meeting can make all the difference in creating connection. Explore our favorite features to personalize your look and inject some spontaneous fun into your meetings. PERSONALIZE NOW

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Hi there,

We are reaching out with a note on the most important updates and enhancements to the Zoom Client released on December 7. For a complete list of the latest releases, please reference our December 7 Release Notes.

New and Enhanced Features 

General Features

• Partially encrypted meeting warnings: Unencrypted connections, such as audio through phone dial-in, unencrypted SIP/H.323 devices, or streaming via RTMP, will alert the host and other attendees that some aspects of the meeting are not fully encrypted. For more information on encryption for Meetings, please review this support article.
  

Meeting Features

• Ehanced co-host privileges over Breakout Rooms: Co-hosts now have the same breakout room controls as the meeting host.
  
• Move participants to main session from breakout room.
  

Changes to Existing Features

• Changes to default behavior of desktop notifications for upcoming meetings: New users will have this setting enabled by default, reminding them of upcoming meetings through a desktop notification. Existing users will not be affected, keeping this setting as it currently is on their profile. This can be enabled through the Settings page in the Zoom web portal, or in the desktop client’s general settings.
  
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Below I’ve highlighted the latest releases to come to the Zoom platform over the last two weeks. For more details on the newest features and enhancements, please refer to the November 8 and November 16 release notes, as well as a new post on Zoom’s blog covering everything new with Zoom Rooms. To access these features, download the latest version of Zoom.

New Updates to Zoom Client

New and Enhanced Features

Meeting/Webinar Features

• Live Transcription: Hosts can enable live transcriptions (English only) for their meeting or webinar. Captions can be seen in the subtitle view and the transcript itself can be accessed through the sidebar. This feature is only available for Pro, Biz and Enterprise accounts with plans for EDU availability in the coming months. The default value is OFF and requires the account admin to enable the feature for their account. 
  
• Share multiple programs at once: Users can select multiple desktop programs at once for sharing, instead of sharing their entire desktop. Other programs and unoccupied areas in the desktop will not be visible to the viewer. The sharer will always know which applications they are sharing by an extensible green border. The user employing this feature will need to be on version 5.4.3; viewers can be connected with older versions.
  
• Enhanced gallery view for iPad.
  
• Increased support for Virtual Background on Android.
  

Meeting Features

• Suspend participant activity: New option in the Security panel to immediately suspend all participant activities, which will mute all video and audio, stop screen sharing, end all breakout rooms, and pause recording.
  
• Enhanced in-meeting user abuse reporting.
  

Chat Features

• Pin chat messages: Users can pin a message in the channel which will then appear at the top of the channel. Pins can be moved, replaced, or hidden. A log of pinned messages is accessible in the channel options panel.
  

Phone Features

• Enhancements to History and Voicemail tabs: UI enhancements to better indicate the location, caller ID, and whether it’s a spam call. Call history entries with a location but no caller ID will indicate the phone number on the first row and location on the second row. Previously, the location was on the first row for these call history entries.
  

Changes to Existing Features

• Non-video meeting interface will appear the same as a video meeting with video off: Meetings scheduled with video off will now just show profile pictures or names rather than the plain screen with meeting information and options.
  

New Updates to Web

New and Enhanced Features

Features for Administrators:

• Setting for participants invited by the host or co-host to bypass the Waiting Room: Account owners and admins can enable a setting for participants invited by the host or co-host to bypass the Waiting Room. This setting is available at the account, group, and user level and can be locked at the account or group level. This setting is turned off by default. This requires client/app version 5.4.0 or higher.
  
• Zoom Rooms support for video Virtual Background with green screen: Account owners and admins can enable video Virtual Background with green screen for Zoom Rooms. This requires Zoom Rooms version 5.3.0, which is planned for release in November 2020.
  
• Virtual receptionist / kiosk mode for Zoom Rooms: Account owners and admins can enable kiosk mode for specific Zoom Rooms, allowing visitors to easily connect to a virtual receptionist. This requires Zoom Rooms version 5.3.0, which is planned for release in November 2020. This feature is in beta and needs to be enabled by Zoom.
  

Features for Users:

• Improved security notifications: Users will receive confirmation emails after certain actions are taken, i.e. password change, phone number updates, host key change.
  

In addition to these releases, click here to read our recent 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Meeting Solutions and 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for UCaaS Worldwide report.

Below I've summarized the latest round of features and enhancements to Zoom’s Web Portal and Zoom Phone. Note that the list below is not inclusive of all releases made this week; for more information on all updates, please reference our Release Notes. To access these features, download the latest version of Zoom.

New Updates to Web

Changes to Existing Features

• Users joining by phone will be placed in the Waiting Room when "only authenticated users can join meetings" and Waiting Rooms are enabled.
  
• The "only authenticated users can join meetings" setting is now always available when scheduling.
  

New and Enhanced Features

For Administrators

• Show Breakout Room data on Dashboard
  
• Export detailed meeting reports from Dashboard
  
• All recurring meetings listed in Upcoming Events Report
  
• Customize disclaimers for signing into Zoom and starting or joining meetings
  
• Setting for sharing audio messages in chat
  
• Phone user templates
  
• Hide outbound caller ID by default
  

For Users

• Recover deleted webinars
  
• Import webinar panelists by CSV
  
• Configure when "Join Before Host" is available
  
• Hide recording transcript when sharing
  
• Edit speaker name in transcripts
  

New Updates to Zoom Phone

New and Enhanced Features

• Supported devices: The Poly Trio C60 conference phone is supported. Account owners and admins can add this phone to the Zoom web portal as part of the provisioning process.
  
• Support for autoprovisioning of Poly D230: The Poly D230 will automatically configure itself out of the box using Polycom Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) after being added to the Zoom web portal.
  
• New supported features for AudioCodes: AudioCodes 450HD and 445HD support multiple line keys, call delegation, speed dial, and busy lamp field (BLF). The AudioCodes 450HD also supports provision templates.
  
• Firmware upgrades: Upgrades are available for Poly Trio, all Poly VVX series, and all Yealink devices. Devices will automatically reboot to upgrade firmware.
  

If you utilize Zoom Schedulers (i.e. Chrome, Firefox, or Outlook plug-ins), we will be enhancing these tools to help your transition in utilzing Passcodes and / or Waiting Rooms. 

What is changing? Any Outlook Integrations, Browser extensions for Google calendar, and your Client Scheduler.

What is staying the same? The way your Web Portal scheduler behaves, as well as any third-party schedulers that you may utilize. 

When? September 20th, 2020 for the Client Scheduler, Outlook Plug-in/Add-in. September 22nd, 2020 for the Browser extensions for Google calendar (Chrome, Firefox, and Safari). 

How? After these dates, the schedulers will always reflect the user's settings in Zoom Web Portal for each new meeting scheduled. If a user changes a specific setting, it will only take effect for that scheduled meeting. Future scheduled meetings will default the settings to what is seen in the user's Web Portal. Note that for the Browser extensions for Google calendar, only the Passcode and Waiting Room settings will follow this logic. The rest of the settings will still follow the values defined locally from the scheduler.