Microsoft Ignite 2019 Microsoft Whiteboard.
Easily collaborate with others or access your boards from any device
Today we’re making Microsoft Whiteboard for the web available for all commercial Office customers. It is available on the all apps list under office.com or directly at whiteboard.microsoft.com. We believe that the best results come when everyone participates and this release makes Whiteboard available on all your organization, school or employee devices including PCs, tablets and phones running Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android. Whiteboard for the web provides the ability to collaborate in real-time with others as well as access your existing boards. Whiteboard for the web is an important part of the Whiteboard family of clients as it makes Whiteboard available on all devices and in Teams. We are starting from an experience that is focused on real-time inking but is committed to bringing additional functionality from our native apps over time.
Run effective Teams meetings with Whiteboard
We are excited to bring Whiteboard to Teams meetings. Customers can now easily add a whiteboard to any Teams meeting by clicking on Whiteboard under the Share option. The newly created whiteboard will be automatically shared with all meeting participants and available for them to start collaborating without leaving the Teams experience. A new Whiteboard tab will also be added to the meeting to make is easy to access the board after the meeting.
Adding a Whiteboard to a Teams meeting is useful for a variety of scenarios such as diagramming collaboratively, expressing ideas, capturing agenda items and follow-ups, remote training, and more. We can’t wait to learn how your organization will be using Whiteboard in meetings. Please share your stories below.
It Is great that whiteboard was added, however the functionality of the whiteboard natively within teams is inadequate. We are not comfortable relying on other company clouds but also cannot use the store to get the full app to sync with teams as our configuration must block the store. Therefor, we must use skype for its whiteboard which prevents full migration to teams. Please add the full functionality natively to teams whiteboard or allow the full app to be available outside of the store!
Hi, you can propose your organization use Microsoft Store for Business. You can close access to all store and deploy only that store application, that you need. In case you turn off Store functionality in system, then you must hope that Microsoft will release classic desktop application for Microsoft WhiteBoard.