Available in May
Users outside of the US and Canada can now have BlueJeans call them directly.
Available toward the end of April
Admins will now be able to provision permissions to the Rooms & Relay Command Center tabs for non-admin users.
Available toward the end of April
Admins will now be able to remove a user’s profile picture via the Manage Users page.
Users will also be able to remove their own profile picture via the Profile page.
Available toward the end of April
Admins can now trigger a “reboot” action on a specific BlueJeans Room via Command Center’s room view. Additionally, admins can trigger automatic log uploads of the room for debugging / diagnostic purposes with the click of a button. Admins also have the ability to provide comments to mention the behavior noticed.
Available toward the end of April
Admins now have the ability to gather feedback about users’ perceptions of Command Center. Users are prompted to provide feedback in 90-day intervals, or they can click the “Give Feedback” button to submit feedback at any time.
Available in April
BlueJeans Moderators now have a separate chat window within the moderator dashboard for moderators to chat amongst themselves. The chat details are included as part of the end of event chat report.
Available in May
Presenters & Moderators can now check their camera setup on the settings panel when their video feed is turned off.
Rollout will begin toward middle of April
Video Clip Sharing
The Desktop App now offers the ability to share video clips on the fly. Users can pull up a YouTube video clip and share it with meeting attendees without having to download or upload anything ahead of time. Once available, BlueJeans 2.11 users will see an option to “Share computer sound” when initiating content sharing.
This functionality requires a one-time audio driver installation to capture the computer audio and send it to the rest of the meeting participants. If the user does not have admin rights for installation, IT admins can deploy the driver centrally. More details can be found here.
Available in April
Enhanced Audio Settings BlueJeans Desktop App will now automatically select the right headset and microphone when it is plugged in, instead of requiring users to select it manually themselves.
Available toward the end of March
PSTN Accessibility
Mobile App users now have a more intuitive experience when using their phone dial-in for audio while leveraging the Mobile App for content collaboration. This helps users participate in a meeting but still save data or get around bad wi-fi networks.
Available toward the middle of March
Private Chat
Direct Messages allow users to chat 1-on-1 during a meeting, in addition to sending a message to everyone in the meeting.
Note: Not supported in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge browsers
Available in March
BlueJeans Meetings now offers enhanced Call Me support in 28 additional countries. This service is a per-minute charge and the rates for each country apply.
Available in March
Users can now download audio-only versions of their recordings.
Available toward the middle of March
Users can now schedule a BlueJeans Meeting directly from Google Calendar. Once users install the new BlueJeans Add-On from GSuite Marketplace, they will be able to schedule a meeting with just one click. This Add-On is available for all browsers, iOS, and Android.
Available toward the end of April
The BlueJeans Office 365 add-in can now automatically include your enterprise logo in calendar invitations. Please contact support to add this feature.
Available Now
The BlueJeans Web App has automatically adjusted your meeting times to account for Daylight savings time.
Available Now
Administrators can now brand their company’s bluejeans.com landing page with custom images, colors, and text. Users will also be allowed to sign-up from the landing page.
Available toward the middle of April
BlueJeans has built a mechanism to catch any fraudulent activity happening on an account or during a meeting. Once caught, users and IT administrators are notified via email about their resources being blocked, and are provided a way to unlock those assets. This feature can be enabled by contacting support.
These capabilities are targeted at two specific use cases:
When a hacker tries to login to the BlueJeans service using incorrect user credentials for a certain number of tries, the account will become locked out. BlueJeans detects fraud activity for non-SSO accounts only. The owner of the account (the user) will receive an email about being locked out and the necessary steps that are required to unlock it.
When a hacker tries to join a BlueJeans meeting using incorrect join credentials for a certain number of tries, the meeting will be locked down. The owner of the meeting (the user) will receive an email about the hacker’s blocked IP address and the steps that are required to unlock it.
Available toward the end of March
Personally identifiable information (PII) of users such as name, email, and IP address available on the Command Center pages is now obfuscated at the API level. In addition, any PII in CSV exports and PDF reports will also be obfuscated.
Available toward the end of March
Accessibility improvements for Events Presenters will help users leverage Events web apps with the help of keyboard, screen readers, and tools like JAWS for Windows and Voiceover for Mac OSX.
Available toward the end of March
Event Organizers/Moderators of private events can now provide a web link to in-person meeting attendees for submitting questions and participating in live audience polling. Attendees can use their BlueJeans account or SSO to login.
For more detailed information, review this support article.
Available in April
After 30 days, BlueJeans Rooms will recognize if one of your room systems has not been paired with Command Center and will prompt the administrator to connect it to your BlueJeans account. Pair your Room by going to: http://bluejeans.com/addrooms. Adding your Room to Command Center offers many benefits such as: calendar integration, user feedback, SIP configurations, and much more.
Available in April
Dolby Voice Room-enabled huddle spaces now offer users the ability to stream audio through the in-room monitor speakers via a laptop HDMI connection. This feature is only supported when an online meeting is not taking place.
Available in May
BlueJeans Rooms automatically update time zone settings for the system so there is no need to change it manually on the BlueJeans Application side.
Available on March 2nd
In addition to our existing North American and European presence in Azure, we are expanding our global coverage to encompass Asia, hosted out of Singapore Azure. This will shorten any possible Teams Gateway latency upon connection. Along with this availability in the Asia Pacific region, we have also rolled out global server load balancing and global support failover in case a regional outage occurs in Azure.
Available in April
The BlueJeans Rooms iPad App now supports one-touch join for Microsoft Teams Meetings. Users may also choose to enter a Tenant ID and Conference ID to join a Microsoft Teams Meeting manually. This capability works for all SIP/H.323-based BlueJeans Rooms.
Available in April
We have added improvements for sharing via HDMI from a VTC unit. We now support grabbing screen share controls from another attendee and other simple improvements.
Rollout will begin toward the end of February
Windows Annotation
Windows users can now use annotation to highlight and mark-up their screen while presenting. Annotation lets users add text or use a marker on top of their screen share. This capability can be accessed while screen sharing (using the top controls) or from the Apps tab.
Windows Whiteboarding
Windows users can now illustrate different designs and concepts leveraging the whiteboard. Whiteboarding enables users to add text or use a marker to draw. This capability can be accessed in the Apps tab.
Office 365 Calendar Integration
Today, both Windows and Mac users can import their calendars into the BlueJeans App dashboard from their local Outlook client. With this release, users who have Office 365 will now be able to import their calendars from the Office 365 cloud. Learn more in our Admin Guide to Office 365 Application Permissions. This has a number of advantages:
Always show meeting controls
Desktop App users are shown meeting controls when they first join a meeting. These controls include Start Recording, Mute Video, Mute Audio, Share Screen, and more. All of these controls “auto-hide” when there is no mouse activity in order to provide an immersive video experience. However, for users who want the controls to always be shown, we now offer that option via settings.
Available in early February
Downloaded recordings will no longer include the participant overlay on the top left that can potentially hide the main meeting content. In addition, files with presentations will also contain audio.
Available toward end of February
Add a BlueJeans meeting to any Trello Board and join a meeting within the Board.
Available in January
Accessibility improvements enable BlueJeans users to use out of meeting web apps with the help of keyboard, screen readers, and tools like JAWS for Windows and Voiceover for Mac OSX .
Available toward end of January
Now users can schedule a BlueJeans Meeting directly from Google Calendar. Once users install the new BlueJeans Add-On from GSuite Marketplace, they will be able to schedule a meeting with just one click. This Add-On is available for browsers, iOS, and Android.
Available in early February
These new settings allow admins to enable and disable specific meeting features for all users across the entire enterprise or at a more granular level for individual users.
Available in January
This feature allows meeting organizers to turn off participant video, so that invitees do not automatically join meetings with their video turned on. This setting can be controlled by an Enterprise Admin to set across the enterprise and by users, to set on their personal or scheduled meetings.
Available in December v1.2.0
The geo-distribution map shows participant feedback from each country for a given date range. The underlying endpoint data is available for download.
Available in February
Accessibility improvements for Events Attendees will help users leverage the Events web apps with the help of keyboard, screen readers, and tools like JAWS for Windows and Voiceover for Mac OSX .
Available in February
We have improved the exit flow for moderators when it is time to leave an event.
Available in February
In addition to the summary polling results, we now provide individual responses from attendees for each poll question. This information is included as part of the end of event report.
Available in February
We are making more enhancements to the Events experience for Dolby Voice Rooms with better notifications for in-event changes like mute/unmute, recording, and other event-specific notifications.
Available in February
BlueJeans admins now have the ability to change the out-of-meeting wallpaper for BlueJeans Rooms. This feature will allow administrators to change the wallpaper across an entire enterprise or per room. Upload any 1080p image that you want or choose from a few pre-selected images or solid color backgrounds.
Available in February
After 30 days, any room not attached to a BlueJeans enterprise in Command Center will be timed out. Adding a room to an enterprise via http://bluejeans.com/addrooms will allow administrators to easily connect the room to a relay-enabled calendar for end-user features like one-button join, proximity access, and ongoing user experience enhancements.
Available in February
In order to help our customer save energy, Dolby Voice Room now supports CeC settings on televisions.
Available in January
Microsoft Teams allows users to wirelessly share content into a Team Meeting, but some customers require HDMI content share over HDMI from a VTC system. This feature will allow users to be able to share content via an HDMI cable into the Teams meeting.
Rolling out December through January
Direct Messages allow users to chat 1-on-1 during a meeting, in addition to sending a message to everyone in the meeting.
Available Now
Microsoft Teams users can install the bot from Microsoft AppSource to initiate or schedule a BlueJeans Meeting from any Microsoft Teams channel.
Available through December and January
Expanded Accessibility support for our WebRTC client, and Settings WebApps (enhancing end user accessibility for scheduling meetings, changing personal and room settings, and playing back recorded meetings). Additionally, our Home and Support Center sites are now Accessible.
Available Now
Users can now download a CSV file of the list of attendees per meeting. This is available under Meeting History on a per meeting basis by clicking ‘DOWNLOAD CSV’.
Available end-of-December
This feature allows admins to tailor the look and feel of the landing page to match their brand and customize a sub domain for their enterprise.
Available end-of-December
This feature helps users set their ideal default settings. Users will be prompted to choose their preferred meeting ID type and the optimal method for participants to join their meetings. This prompt will appear for users immediately after a successful login.
Available end-of-January
Now users can schedule a BlueJeans Meeting directly from their Google Calendar app. Once users install the new BlueJeans Add-On from GSuite Marketplace, they will be able to schedule a meeting with just one click. This Add-On is available for browsers, iOS, and Android.
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Available Now
Data for meetings longer than six hours is now accessible in Command Center.
Available Now
Live meeting statistics continue to be updated regardless if the user has the Command Center browser tab open or not.
Available Now
Admins can subscribe to a monthly PDF report on usage and trends that is delivered automatically in their inbox. This is an addition to the one-time report function available today.
Available Now
We are excited to announce the General Availability of our new BlueJeans Events app. This fully-featured desktop app provides a seamless event experience for Moderators and Presenters, giving them intuitive controls to easily manage live virtual events, without using Adobe Flash. This new app is designed specifically for Moderators and Presenters that require an alternative to using the Google Chrome browser for managing their events. This new app will not change the event attendee experience, as they will continue to join through their browser.
For more detailed information, here is the Getting Started With BlueJeans Events App.
Available January
The Attendee Engagement feature allows Event Organizers/Moderators to provide a web link to in-person meeting attendees that allows them to submit questions and participate in live audience polling. The in-person results marry up with the remote attendee results to allow moderators to engage all attendees with a single platform.
For more detailed information, click here.
Available January
This feature enables event attendees to ask and upvote questions using the iOS or Android app. Attendees have the option to submit questions anonymously.
Available Now
We are proud to announce the general availability of BlueJeans Rooms featuring Dolby Voice Room. Dolby Voice Room provides the following benefits:
Available Early December
Dolby Voice Rooms that are connected to an “always on” HDMI feed (like Extron Boxes and Apple TV’s) can take advantage of a new, optional workflow that Support can enable to ensure the appropriate content is available on the screen. Users can also choose to always revert the HDMI feed back to the peripheral device when out of a meeting or the meeting has ended (great for Barco Click Share and Solstice Pods).
Available December
In addition to our existing North American presence in Azure, we are expanding our global coverage to encompass Europe hosted out of Amsterdam Azure. This will shorten any possible Teams Gateway latency on connection.
Available December
Sharing from the Microsoft Teams desktop (wireless) client is already supported, but in the December release, we will be adding “hard line” screen share from VTC rooms. Simply plug in the HDMI cable directly to the laptop and VTC to share content into the Teams meeting.
Available Late November
The newest version of the BlueJeans Desktop app includes the following new features:
Available October
Users who prefer to join BlueJeans Meetings in their browsers will now be able to use Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge. These browsers allow users to receive content sharing and use their phone for audio join.
Available Late October
Users can now log in to their account on bluejeans.com with their SSO-enabled account. Prior to this, users were required to log in from their respective company landing page or identity provider.
Available Mid-October
Office 365 Outlook Add-On Meeting advanced settings will be available in the task pane.
Available Now
Available Mid-October
Search is now available in a consistent manner across all Command Center tabs. An administrator can search for meetings, users and rooms from any tab and receive the appropriate results, regardless of the tab searched from.
Available Mid-October
The screen sharing option will be now available for event attendees who are promoted to be presenters. This enhancement will not be available by default and can only be enabled by the support team.
Available Mid-November
In an effort to provide better moderator controls during an event, we are enabling an option on the Moderator Dashboard that blocks content sharing. Moderators will be presented with two separate options – one, to block audio, video & content sharing and another, to block content sharing only. This enhanced control can help moderators avoid unexpected presenter hijacking during important events.
Available October 31 (North America Release)
BlueJeans Gateway for Microsoft Teams is a cloud-based gateway to enable your exiting SIP and H.323 room systems (e.g. Cisco, Polycom, Lifesize) to join a Microsoft Teams Meeting. This release supports One-Touch join from Cisco, Lifesize, and Polycom touch panels.
Available Late September
BlueJeans is excited to introduce its new enhanced desktop app designed for speed and simplicity, with a clean, modern, and intuitive user experience. Over the last few months BlueJeans has been rolling out the new app to customers and we will continue to roll it out over the next few months as additional features are released.
The newest version, App 2.8, includes the following new features:
While most users will click “OK”, there will be some that click “Don’t Allow” either on purpose or by mistake. If users who click “Don’t Allow” want to undo that decision, the upcoming BlueJeans App version 2.8 will give guidance on how to change the setting. BlueJeans 2.8 will be released toward the end of September, when we expect Mojave to also become generally available.
To ensure continuity and deliver the highest-quality experience, all users on the Mojave Mac OS running the BlueJeans App version 1.x will be prompted to update to 2.8 at the end of September.
Our goal is to help 1.x users avoid the following issues:
For additional details, please check out our Knowledge Base Article.
Available in October
Users who prefer to join on their browsers will now see a new option for Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge. It will also support users who choose to join by phone or screen share only mode.
Available Late September
A recording view count will be available to see how many people have watched a recorded meeting. The recording view count will be shown for each chapter of a recording.
Available Early September
The Office 365 add-in will now have support for Personal Meeting scheduling with On-Prem Exchange.
Effective September 1
In an effort to enhance the performance and usability of our platform, BlueJeans will soon require users on older versions of Windows Outlook Add-in to update to version 4.3 (or switch to the Office 365 Add-in) before September 1, 2018 to continue normal operations. Failure to update will impact our integration and prevent users from scheduling BlueJeans meetings. To learn more about options for managing the update of Outlook Add-in to version 4.3 and ensuring the appropriate Outlook Add-in configuration for BlueJeans, click here.
Available Late September
Subscribe to a monthly PDF report on usage and trends and receive it automatically in your inbox. This is an addition to the one-time report function available today.
Available Late September
BlueJeans Events now supports French, German, Italian & Spanish languages on the app and in browsers for Presenters and Attendees.
Available Late September
BlueJeans Events is replacing Flash with HTML5 player on Safari browsers.
Available Late September
A recording view count will be available to see how many people have watched a recorded event. The recording view count will be shown for each chapter of a recording.
Available Late September
BlueJeans Events will now support webhooks that can send out automated messages to other apps. This can be especially useful for handling user registrations.
Available Late September
To support seamless integrations with third-party solutions, we are now providing recording APIs that can be used to access the recording details of an event. These APIs can be used to list and retrieve the recordings.
Available September
We are giving users a new option to swap between the presented content and the meeting video. The control can be found on the Layouts tab on your room device. When the user taps “Swap Video” the content and meeting video will switch. If it is a dual-screen Room, the self view and the content will swap.
Available September
We will be removing the registered enterprise name from the out of meeting screen and moving that information to the settings area of the Dolby Conference Phone app and the iPad app. The removal of the meeting room name will allow for a cleaner look while allowing the admin to verify the registered enterprise.
Available September
We have added a new image to the out-of-meeting screen for Rooms. Stay tuned for more updates in this area. We would love to hear your feedback at roomsfeedback@bluejeans.com
