Problem Ticket Created: Zoom screen sharing settings are reverted to Host only for all users.

Incident Discovery Time: 12:00pm on 05/19/2020
Time of Resolution: 09:00am on 06/09/2020
Services Impacted: Conferencing

Description of Impact

Zoom screen sharing settings are reverted to Host only for all users. This incident has been converted to a problem ticket with an established work-around.

Incident Description and Resolution

IS&T teams continue to work with the vendor on this issue and are tracking that work under Problem ticket number PRB0040664.

Additional Information

The cause of this incident is under investigation by the vendor. IS&T will continue to work on this issue with the vendor until it has been resolved.

If you continue to have issues, please use the work-around documented on our TechWeb website. If you need to contact us on this particular Zoom issue, please include Problem ticket number PRB0040664 in your email to ithelp@bu.edu.

Previous Update

Incident Discovery Time: 12:00pm on 05/19/2020

Services Impacted: Conferencing

Description of Impact

Zoom screen sharing settings are reverted to Host only for all users.

Current Status

IS&T teams continue to work with the vendor.

Additional Information

To allow participants to screen share the host needs to go into security settings of the meeting to allow it. Instructions on changing the setting can be found under “Control Who Can Share Content” at the bottom of our Zoom online documentation within TechWeb.

Next Update: Upon Resolution

Previous Update

Incident Discovery Time: 12:00pm on 05/19/2020

Services Impacted: Conferencing

Description of Impact

Zoom screen sharing settings are reverted to Host only for all users.

Current Status

IS&T teams have not yet identified the cause of the incident, but are investigating with the vendor.

Additional Information

To allow participants to screen share the host needs to go into security settings of the meeting to allow it. Instructions on changing the setting can be found under “Control Who Can Share Content” at the bottom of our Zoom online documentation within TechWeb.

Next Update: Upon Resolution