What's new in BEMS
BEMS
This topic details the new features that have been introduced in all supported releases of
BEMS
.New in BEMS version 3.7
BEMS
version 3.7The table below details the new features in this release. For information about the fixed and known issues in this release, see the BEMS 3.7 Release Notes.
Feature | On-prem version | Description |
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Email notification enhancements | 3.7.2.2 |
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Software requirements | 3.7.2.2 | BEMS is now compatible with Microsoft SQL
Server 2022.
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New in BEMS version 3.6 and BEMS Cloud
BEMS
version 3.6 and BEMS
CloudThe table below details the new features in this release. For information about the fixed and known issues in this release, see the BEMS 3.6 Release Notes or the BEMS Cloud Release Notes.
Feature | On-prem version | Cloud release date | Description |
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BEMS SSL Tech Tool | May 2023 | N/A | The BEMS SSL Tech Tool is no longer available. You can now update the BEMS Certificate Password using the Jetty Util. For more information, see "Update the certificate passwords in BEMS" in the Configuring BEMS-Core content. |
Turn off notifications for multiple users | 3.6.1.1 | N/A | You can now immediately stop notification for all devices associated with multiple users by importing a .csv file in the BEMS Dashboard. This allows administrators to stop notifications to multiple users’ devices at once in the event that a device might have been lost or the user account was deleted from the BlackBerry UEM server instance. Users can resubscribe to notifications if they are entitled to an app that can subscribe to notifications. |
Email notification enhancements | 3.6.1.1 | July 2023 | BEMS and BEMS cloud now supports visual notifications for email messages that are received to users’ subfolders. This feature requires BlackBerry Work version 3.13 or later. For information on how to enable email subfolder notifications, see "BlackBerry Work app configuration settings" in the BlackBerry Work administration content. |
Security enhancements | 3.6.1.1 | N/A | The HTTP Security Header to the BEMS Dashboard login page (https://bems_server:8443/) has been added to the BEMS Dashboard root directory. |
LDAP configuration enhancements | 3.6.1.1 | N/A | You can now specify, in seconds, the timeout before the BEMS connection attempt to the LDAP server and search times out in the following scenarios:
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Windows Extended Protection | 3.6.1.1 | N/A | BEMS now supports Windows Extended Protection for Microsoft Exchange Web
Services (EWS) endpoints. |
Software requirements | 3.6.1.1 | N/A | BEMS no longer supports the following software:
Before you upgrade to a supported version of Microsoft
SharePoint , make sure to change the "Storage Provider" from an unsupported Microsoft
SharePoint version (for example, SharePoint2013) to SharePoint or the Docs service might not function as expected. For more information on how to change the store provider, see Add a storage service. For information about supported Microsoft
SharePoint versions, see the Compatibility Matrix. |
New in BEMS version 3.5 and BEMS Cloud
BEMS
version 3.5 and BEMS
CloudThe table below details the new features in this release. For information about the fixed and known issues in this release, see the BEMS 3.5 Release Notes or the BEMS Cloud Release Notes.
Feature | On-prem version | Cloud release date | Description |
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Windows Server 2022 | 3.5.5.9 | N/A | The BEMS is now supported on servers that are running Windows Server 2022 |
Use Microsoft Graph to access Microsoft Office
365 | 3.5.4.5 | October 2022 | The BEMS Mail and BEMS Cloud Mail service now supports using Microsoft Graph to access Microsoft Office
365 mailboxes and send notifications to users' devices when new messages are received in the users' mailbox. If you have an existing BEMS instance installed and your BEMS Mail service is configured, no additional actions are required. Microsoft has started to deprecate Microsoft Exchange Web
Services (EWS) for Exchange Online APIs and replace the EWS with Microsoft Graph APIs for Microsoft Office 365. When the EWS for Microsoft Exchange Online is retired, new tenants and any existing tenants that need to create new app registrations to grant EWS permissions to client applications will be required to use Microsoft Graph .
Some features may not be supported when you use Microsoft Graph to access Microsoft Office
365 mailboxes (for example, retrieving S/MIME certificates from contacts, retrieving contact groups, and receiving delegate notifications). For more information, visit techcommunity.microsoft.com and read 'Upcoming API Deprecations in Exchange Web Services for Exchange Online'. |
New in BEMS version 3.4 and BEMS Cloud
BEMS
version 3.4 and BEMS
CloudThe table below details the new features in this release. For information about the fixed and known issues in this release, see the BEMS 3.4 Release Notes or the BEMS Cloud Release Notes.
Environment | On-prem version | Cloud release date | Tasks |
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MSAL Authentication | 3.4.3.3 | March 2022 | BEMS and BEMS Cloud now uses the Microsoft Authentication Library for authentication and authorization to the in BlackBerry Mail and BlackBerry Docs services to authenticate to Microsoft
Outlook , Microsoft
SharePoint Online , Microsoft OneDrive for Business , and Microsoft
Azure Information Protection (Azure -IP). No additional actions are required if your environment is already configured for modern authentication. |
Contact Service API for developers | 3.4.3.3 | March 2022 | The Contact Service API now supports additional contact folders and subfolders. For more information, see the Contact Service API content. |
Security enhancement | 3.4.3.3 | March 2022 | log4j2 library has been updated to version 2.17.1. |