We are now two weeks into our prize-iest contest yet. If you haven’t qualified for one of the tiers yet, don’t worry – there’s still time!   You only need 30 points to qualify for entry to win a CW9178I. If you're looking for a way to earn some extra points, might we suggest replying to one of the unanswered topics in the technical forums? You’ll help your fellow members out AND get a boost towards qualifying for a prize.    However you go about earning those points, do it by June 30th to be sure you don’t miss out!    Now, on to our current standings. As of today, more than 70 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 a CW9178I. 🤩 Members who reached Tier 1 by achieving 30 points: @TBHPTL  @jumbojake  @mattberk  @vagrant  @Dunky  @RobertOcampo  @KFoster  @DTellez  @BHC_RESORTS  @GIdenJoe  @jgrbb  @Shadius  @NicolasRen  @ReyesPolanco  @BaskaranGanesan  @Blast  @DJ6078  @Ralph_at_Sharp  @SimonReach  @TransAm  @Mayur14  @ndkCrystal  @Osvaldo_Quihila  @Raj_Wipro  @UCS  @wswanson  @dmbooth  @RCMikesell  @cgbenne42  @GL @Aashish2506  @Ratatui  @Marc_Abaya  @gary4321  @Tony-CTI  @eugene_dev  @jfdpratt  @VRB  @Frank-NL  @MinhTu  @NetEngJH  @SJDR  @EJacobs  @MartinLL  @MaxMartini  @mlefebvre  @Tim_De_Groef  @Messy  @VPS    Members who reached Tier 2 by achieving 100 points: @BlakeRichardson  @jimmyt234  @JeroenVercoulen  @DanD  @SethG  @The1Metallian    Members who reached Tier 3 by achieving 200 points: @PhilipDAth  @alemabrahao  @Mloraditch  @DarrenOC  @RWelch  @cmr  @RaphaelL  @rhbirkelund  @Gopinath_Pigili  @FreshFrank  @CloudStrife  @rwiesmann  @Inderdeep  @ww @Brash    Congrats to everyone who has qualified so far, and keep racking up those points! 😄 👏 👏 ... View more

  It’s the end of week 1 of our month-long Points Contest and time for our first Tier update and a look at the leader board.   Already, 50 of you have qualified for entry to win one of our ✨dazzling✨ swag prizes, and an additional 85 members are on the board with 5 points or more!    If you are tagged in any of the tiers below, you’ve earned entry into both a drawing to win your tier’s prize AND a drawing to win the Grand Prize of a CW9178I.   Members who reached Tier 3 by achieving 200 points: @PhilipDAth  @DarrenOC  @RWelch  @alemabrahao  @Mloraditch  @rhbirkelund  @cmr  @RaphaelL  @FreshFrank    Members who reached Tier 2 by achieving 100 points: @Inderdeep  @rwiesmann  @CloudStrife  @ww @jimmyt234  @DanD  @Brash  @JeroenVercoulen  @Gopinath_Pigili      Members who reached Tier 1 by achieving 30 points: @TBHPTL  @jumbojake  @SethG  @BlakeRichardson  @RobertOcampo  @GIdenJoe  @NicolasRen  @Raziv  @ReyesPolanco  @jgrbb  @KFoster  @DJ6078  @ndkCrystal  @Osvaldo_Quihila  @Raj_Wipro  @Ralph_at_Sharp  @vagrant  @wswanson  @GL @Aashish2506  @BaskaranGanesan  @SimonReach  @UCS  @DTellez  @Blast  @Frank-NL  @SJDR  @MartinLL  @mlefebvre  @Messy  @VPS    Congrats to everyone who has qualified so far. 🎉 For those who haven’t reached Tier 1 yet, don’t fret! You still have 3 weeks left to earn points and increase your chances of winning a prize!   Here’s a look at the rest of our leader board. That first tier is within reach 💪   Members who earned at least 20 points: @Chema-Spain  @Dunky @IgorRoizen @ShaunB93 @dmbooth @EJacobs @MaxMartini @VRB @FB1984  @MinhTu @Junt @racheldavis6634 @rodney @Tom_evf @watICT      Members who earned at least 10 points: @gary4321  @Jagatiya143  @jvulto  @Paul-H  @Youssef-Jelloul  @PatWruk  @a-ueno  @Ajesh  @Christine75  @MauroF  @dmiss  @MelvinMagnehag  @Elery  @Mongggii  @Zeus  @AdBurl  @AntoineBAK  @Brad6212  @cam-cart  @dmarsh10  @GinaR  @harmankardon  @Holli69  @MarkR-UBS  @merman01  @The1Metallian  @TimoH  @Tom11    Members who earned at least 5 points: @CXYM  @JustinH  @Shubh3738  @Sri_krishna11  Adamkarol  ADE78  amit21  Boyan1  Colin-D9  davidson2020  EricZ  EvanBaumgartner  fjap1905  Grizwald  hammerniski  Indian1  iores  ITSolutions  John_R_Gudmann  JThomas9999  Juha_S  ktv-meraki  LandAruba  lc-gabriellima  MarkusLorber  mohamed12  Mytestcase  nicdc01  NotANetworkGuy  RSU21it  SeanGr  Sedar_kengni  Shadius  SmithPoll  ThanhTongMeraki  This2shallpass  webscam  YoinkZ    Thank you to everyone who has participated in the Meraki Community this month, and keep those posts coming! ... View more

UPDATE: This survey is now closed. Thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts with us! Stay tuned ⏳ we will be pulling the winners this week!    In 5 minutes, you can earn a chance to win one of 20 gift cards worth $25 USD AND help us make Meraki training even better!    👉 Take the Survey Now   We’re ensuring that, for everyone who can’t be at Cisco Live US this year to meet the team in person, your voice is still being heard and your opinion counted. That’s why the Meraki Learner Research team is hosting a special contest just for you!   We’re running a quick survey to better understand how you find information about Meraki products. Your insights will help us improve our learning and support resources so they work for you, not against you.    How to enter You have until 11:59 p.m. PT on Thursday, June 12 to complete the survey and provide your email address to be entered to win. The survey only takes 5 minutes to complete.   The Fine Print Limit one entry per person Submission period: Monday, June 9, 2025 at 8am PT through Thursday, June 12, 2025 at 11:50pm PT Complete rules and eligibility can be found here. ... View more

Check out May'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 @BaskaranGanesan. Since joining the Community just over a month ago, @BaskaranGanesan has contributed 22 posts and received 2 kudos by asking detailed questions and engaging in discussion in the Wireless board. Check out his contributions on his profile.   @BaskaranGanesan   Thanks for your posts @BaskaranGanesan — 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 @JamesTIP for sharing a workaround to allow an MS120 not responding to ARP to access the Status Page. By taking the time to document and share the solution with the Community, James is helping countless members who may have the same issue in the future.   @JamesTIP   Thanks @JamesTIP 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 50 solutions in all and received a total of 1,053 kudos for their efforts. Incredible!     @alemabrahao 276 kudos 17 solutions MOTM score: 310 @PhilipDAth 197 kudos 9 solutions MOTM score: 215 @Mloraditch 124 kudos 9 solutions MOTM score: 142 @RWelch 109 kudos 5 solutions MOTM score: 119 @cmr 85 kudos 1 solutions MOTM score: 87 @Brash 53 kudos 1 solutions MOTM score: 55 @BlakeRichardson 54 kudos 0 solutions MOTM score: 54 @RaphaelL 41 kudos 1 solutions MOTM score: 43 @rhbirkelund 36 kudos 2 solutions MOTM score: 40 @ww 34 kudos 1 solutions MOTM score: 36 @DarrenOC 24 kudos 4 solutions MOTM score: 30 @rwiesmann 20 kudos 1 solutions MOTM score: 22 (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 @Fawbs for sharing a project and how-to guide for building custom Meraki dashboards using the Meraki API and a web app framework of your choice (in this case, Pyweb.IO) with little to no coding experience using the help of AI! This is a great solution that many of our members will surely benefit from.    @Fawbs   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 May!      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 directly to the Community team via PM.  ... View more

  Today marks the start of our Annual Points Contest, and this is one you won’t want to miss! There are tons of great prizes up for grabs, including some Meraki hardware.    For the next four weeks (today through June 30th), you’ll earn points just for participating in the Meraki Community as you normally would. The more points you earn, the more chances you have to win some fantastic prizes.   Details below!   How it works Just like in our previous Points Contests, starting today, certain actions you take in the community will earn you points. Those points will enter you to win a smattering of Meraki-branded prizes. You needn’t opt in — simply taking one of these point-earning actions will do: Reply to any topic or blog post — 5 points Start a topic (e.g. ask a question, pose a discussion point) — 5 points   To optimize the bang for your buck, writing high-quality posts can earn you even more points: Receive a kudo — 7 points Write an answer that gets marked as a solution — 10 points Share details of a recent deployment in the Projects Gallery — 15 points Write a how-to guide in any forum — 20 points   As you can see, the more helpful your action is to the community, the more points you receive!   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 30 points and will have 50 randomly selected winners who’ll receive a Cisco Meraki pin set. Tier 2 requires 100 points and will have 25 randomly selected winners who’ll receive a Cisco Meraki pin set and Nike Dri-Fit hat. Tier 3 requires 200 points and will have 10 randomly selected winners who’ll receive a Cisco Meraki pin set, Nike Dri-Fit hat, and Nike Polo shirt.   AND, just like in previous years, everyone who earns enough points to achieve any tier will be entered to win the GRAND PRIZE of a brand new CW9178I (with 5-year license)! Reaching Tier 1 gets you 1 entry, Tier 2 doubles your entries and… (guess what!?) Tier 3 triples your entries to win!   That means that, over the course of this month, you could write just 6 replies or author just 3 solutions anywhere in the community and be entered to win one of these: We will also be offering a prize to the top 3 Meraki Employees who earn the most points during the contest.    How will I know how I’m doing? To keep you all up to date on your progress, each week I’ll post a list of everyone who has reached Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3.   When are the winners chosen? On June 30th at 11 am EST, the contest will end. We’ll then randomly select winners for each tier (50 for Tier 1, 25 for Tier 2, and 10 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, June 2nd, 2025 at 11am EST through Monday, June 30th, 2025 at 10:59am EST 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. Shipping limitations: We can only ship prizes to residents of these Eligible Countries  Complete rules and eligibility can be found here ... View more

Cisco Live US is coming up fast (June 8-12) and while the Meraki Community team won’t be there in person this year, some of our awesome Meraki team members will be! 🙌    They’re hoping to connect with fellow community folks while they’re there—and yes, they’ll have some fun Meraki swag to share! 🎁   If you’re planning to attend, drop a comment below and let us know! We’re trying to get a sense of who from the community will be around so we can help coordinate a casual meet-up.   Looking forward to hearing who’s going. Stay tuned for more details as we get closer to the event!   – The Meraki Community Team 💚 ... View more

Check out April’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 @AhamBramhasmi. Since joining the Community three short weeks ago, @AhamBramhasmi has contributed 16 posts and received 3 kudos by asking great questions and sharing helpful answers in the Wireless and Dashboard & Administration boards. Check out his contributions on his profile.   @AhamBramhasmi   Thanks for your posts @AhamBramhasmi — 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 @Gordon-HoC for sharing a snippet of code that extracts error details from a web request when using Powershell. This makes troubleshooting an issue easier and faster to resolve, and by giving back to the community by sharing this with our members, Gordon is helping many others who may face the same issue one day!   @Gordon-HoC   Thanks @Gordon-HoC 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 56 solutions in all and received a total of 868 kudos for their efforts. Incredible!     @Mloraditch 182 kudos 11 solutions MOTM score: 204 @alemabrahao 143 kudos 24 solutions MOTM score: 238 @PhilipDAth 137 kudos 7 solutions MOTM score: 151 @cmr 110 kudos 2 solutions MOTM score: 114 @RaphaelL 72 kudos 1 solutions MOTM score: 74 @DarrenOC 61 kudos 3 solutions MOTM score: 67 @ww 34 kudos 3 solutions MOTM score: 40 @rwiesmann 37 kudos 0 solutions MOTM score: 37 @RWelch 30 kudos 3 solutions MOTM score: 36 @Brash 27 kudos 1 solutions MOTM score: 29 @BlakeRichardson 17 kudos 1 solutions MOTM score: 19 @Inderdeep 18 kudos 0 solutions MOTM score: 18 (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 @Tony-Sydney-AU for sharing a very thorough and helpful response to a series of questions on Anyconnect and IPSec Client VPN routing full and split tunnel. His response was friendly and gave many details including links to documentation that will help anyone understand this topic better.    @Tony-Sydney-AU   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 April!      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 directly to the Community team via PM.  ... View more

  UPDATE: This contest has now closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted their networking memes. We got a good laugh out of reading them! Congrats to our 3 randomly selected winners: @Kamaboko, @AVL, and @vagrant 🎉 This May the 4th, we’re bringing the power of the Force and the magic of networking together for a galactic contest that’s sure to excite both Star Wars fans and tech enthusiasts alike! 💫 In honor of Star Wars Day, we invite YOU to participate in our Meraki Star Wars Meme Contest. It’s time to get creative, combine your love of Star Wars with the cutting-edge technology of Meraki, and show us your best memes!   Your challenge is simple: create and share a meme that blends the epic world of Star Wars with Meraki technology. Whether it’s about the power of cloud-managed networks, the ease of Meraki solutions, or the importance of secure and fast connections, we want to see how you can bring the galaxy of Star Wars into the world of IT.   We put together a few examples for some inspiration to get you started 👽     How to enter Create a meme using your imagination to combine iconic Star Wars references with networking humor. Think of moments from the movies and how they could relate to your network, security, or wireless challenges. The more creative, the better! Share your meme in a comment below before 11am ET on Monday, May 12th to be entered to win.    How to win After the contest ends on May 12th, we will draw three at random to win a Cisco Meraki Product Magnet set:   Let the memes begin, and may the Force guide your creativity. We’re looking forward to seeing what you come up with!   The Fine Print Limit one entry per community member  Submission period: Sunday, May 4th, 2025 at 11am EST through Monday, May 12th, 2025 at 11am EST Complete rules and eligibility can be found here. This contest is not affiliated with or endorsed by Lucasfilm or Disney.  ... View more

I discovered a cool Chrome browser trick today that turns web pages into dark mode! We’ve heard your feedback that you really want a dark mode setting for the community. While it doesn’t meet that need for everyone, for the 62% of you using Chrome, this is a cool thing to try out for any page!    Note: It is an experimental feature of the Chrome browser, so please review the warning from Google prior to trying. Use at your own risk.      To enable the feature on Chrome, navigate to chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark and select Enable from the dropdown menu.     You’ll be asked to relaunch the browser to apply the changes. Voila! Meraki Community in dark mode. ... View more