1. Using Webex On A Mac

Last Update from me.Read through the comments above again and tested some of the different items and here's what I came up with just to summarize:- Using Internet Explorer to join a meeting appears to default to the ActiveX option on first attempt. The page gives you the option to use Java instead by clicking a link.

Close the information bar and click the Java link.- Using the.msi for Internet Explorer prior to the meeting and distributing via GPO or another item like PDQ Deploy eliminates the need to use the Java option when using IE.- Firefox/Chrome default to use Java and as long as you have Java installed it should just work. Chrome asked if I trusted the java application but opened afterwards, Firefox just opened it possibly due to already having the permission set for the applet.- Using the.msi for Firefox/Chrome only installed when I had Firefox installed. For some reason it didn't recognize Chrome so I was unable to install it with PDQ Deploy or from the downloaded file with only Chrome on the system.Hope this helps clear things up for anyone else wondering why the prompt is happening and how to get around it.Thanks! Must be the systems I noticed it working just fine on weren't locked down or they had webex installed previously. Just tested on a new setup and yup, not able to install.

Seems a little counterproductive to require admin rights when something like TeamViewer Quick Support can run without admin rights. Anyone know of a distributable that can be installed via PDQ Deploy of Group Policy for webex so the admin rights download is already installed so they aren't needed when someone needs to attend a WebEx? Hi Guys,I have been experiencing this same thing. But we have WebEx already installed.When a user is joining a WebEx meeting in IE, the first time it will ask for an admin username and password.If admin rights are used, WebEx will work fine for all future meetings until Windows is restarted, then it asks again.We found out the user can can simply cancel this request for admin rights, and IE will bring up the WebEx meeting just fine???Also, joining the meeting through FireFox or Chrome has no issues???Can anyone else confirm this exact same behavior?

If so, I would be happy to open a TAC with Cisco and reference your TAC as well.Thanks,Chris. Hi, yes, we've been experiencing this problem too for some time.

Using Webex On A Mac

If a user runs webex regularly it all works ok but if they go to a meeting room to run their session, chances are it will fail. We've about 200 webex users.I am site admin for our site (is anyone else?) and in the settings you can specify ACTIVE X (or not), then Java and then 'temporary folder solution'.When I had my desktop guys play around with a few PCs that were failing, they established that running the correct java version solved the problem. 'But I dont want it to use Java, where's the ActiveX?' The difficulty in diagnosing is that on a given PC it will suddenly start to work.BTW we have set 'webex' as a trusted download so any user should be able to pull down activex for their session.Would people echo my feeling that activex should work as java versions are so fluid?We've had the problem raised via our Webex SP to cisco tac, but in all fairness they'll need a lot of detail from the suspect PC to make any headway. At present all i can say to them is 'sometimes it dont work due to java versions'NB I do have a webex test site if anyone wishes to try some tests in a controlled environment?chris. Last Update from me.Read through the comments above again and tested some of the different items and here's what I came up with just to summarize:- Using Internet Explorer to join a meeting appears to default to the ActiveX option on first attempt.

The page gives you the option to use Java instead by clicking a link. Close the information bar and click the Java link.- Using the.msi for Internet Explorer prior to the meeting and distributing via GPO or another item like PDQ Deploy eliminates the need to use the Java option when using IE.- Firefox/Chrome default to use Java and as long as you have Java installed it should just work. Chrome asked if I trusted the java application but opened afterwards, Firefox just opened it possibly due to already having the permission set for the applet.- Using the.msi for Firefox/Chrome only installed when I had Firefox installed. For some reason it didn't recognize Chrome so I was unable to install it with PDQ Deploy or from the downloaded file with only Chrome on the system.Hope this helps clear things up for anyone else wondering why the prompt is happening and how to get around it.Thanks! Erick.griffin.88 wrote:So am I to understand, you run PDQ or a deploy via GPO each time the user is about to do a webex meeting?Reason being I have a simular situation going where a user who is locked down by SRP is having 'requests' from webex to install ever so often.

This particual user has been locked down this way for quite a while with webex installed on the machine. However the install 'requests' started recently.We make the WebEx component part of setup package for new systems. Anytime a new system is setup we install WebEx IE client so anytime they need to attend a WebEx session they are good to go if using IE. If you have Java installed then they can use the Java client which doesn't require any additional clients to be installed. Using the Java option doesn't stand out on the site like an option but if you look you'll see a link indicating to click it to use Java instead of activeX.