Microsoft Whiteboard app for Windows 10

[Arthur]

This is the public preview for Microsoft's new whiteboard app. The download link should become active within the next 24 hours.

 

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Today, we are gradually rolling out the Microsoft Whiteboard Preview app—a freeform digital canvas where people, ideas, and content can come together for creative collaboration—available for download on Windows 10 devices.* Microsoft Whiteboard Preview is built for anyone who engages in creative, freeform thinking before getting to their final output. It’s designed for teams that need to ideate, iterate, and work together both in person and remotely, and across multiple devices.

 

In the course of our private beta, we saw startups use it to put together images, mockups, and notes as an inspiration board for their next big idea. We witnessed marketing agencies use it in online meetings as they work with clients on product designs in real time. And our team uses it to diagram engineering plans, with remote participants filling in their respective areas on the same working canvas. Ultimately, we see Microsoft Whiteboard Preview as enhancing how people go from personal ideation, team brainstorms, and group discussions to their finished products.

 

The limitless surface ensures that imagination has room to grow and provides space for everyone’s ideas. Bring in teammates—whether they’re across the hall or in a different part of the world—with real-time collaboration across multiple devices. You can see where everyone is on the board and the updates they’re making—whether they’re adding images, putting up sticky notes, or creating diagrams. Now even remote workers can easily join in and contribute to the discussion.

 

Work naturally

Microsoft Whiteboard Preview lets you create in whatever way feels most natural to you. The pen-first, touch-first technology lets you make fluid gestures with your fingers or draw out finer details with your pen. Using your pen, you can jot down notes, draw precise illustrations, or search for images on the web. Using your fingers, you can swipe to different sections of your board, turn the virtual ruler to the angle you want, and drag and drop images to create a photo stack. Whether you use pen or touch, Microsoft Whiteboard Preview recognizes your intent and delivers your desired outcomes in an instant.

 

Create digitally

With the preview of Microsoft Whiteboard, you can use intelligent ink that recognizes your freeform drawings and turns them into standard shapes, so it’s easy to create great-looking tables, diagrams, and flowcharts. And unlike traditional whiteboards, the app automatically saves your boards, so you can pick up where you left off or share links to your boards, so others can build on top of your work.* No need to take photos of your canvas or email photos to others when you need to get them up to speed.

 

We’re truly excited for you to try out the Microsoft Whiteboard Preview as we think it will help you unlock creativity and harness the power of your teams. We look forward to receiving your comments, suggestions, and feature requests via the Windows Feedback Hub, which you can access from within the app.

 

—The Microsoft Whiteboard team

 

 

 

* The Microsoft Whiteboard Preview is rolling out to all English versions of Windows 10 within the next 24 hours, and will roll out to additional languages in the coming months. The app is free to use for anyone with a Windows 10 device, but one participant with an Office 365 personal, work, or school account is needed for multi-party collaboration. For SurfaceHub customers, the Microsoft Whiteboard Preview will eventually replace the native whiteboard app currently running on your SurfaceHub. In the meantime, you can install the preview of the Microsoft Whiteboard alongside your existing app.

 

Enable Microsoft Whiteboard Preview for your organization (Office 365)

 

Because Microsoft Whiteboard is currently in preview, it's not automatically enabled for customers. Instead, an Office 365 global admin must enable Microsoft Whiteboard Preview for your organization. To do so, just open the Office 365 Admin Center...

 

[Arthur]

Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows. The iOS and web versions are coming soon.

 

Download: www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9MSPC6MP8FM4

 

Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of the Microsoft Whiteboard app for Windows 10. Whiteboard gives teams a freeform, intelligent canvas for real time ideation, creation, and collaboration. Since releasing a preview of the app in December, more than 200,000 customers have helped us fine tune the feature set and end user experience. Based on their feedback we’ve added a number of new features, including text notes, the ability to add and manipulate images, enhancements to shape and table recognition, accessibility improvements, compliance with various global standards, and more. In addition, the Whiteboard app for iOS and preview on the web will be coming soon. These releases will mark an important milestone in our journey to make Whiteboard the best tool for freeform collaboration across platforms and form factors.

 

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Blog/Microsoft-Whiteboard-is-now-generally-available-for-Windows/ba-p/214574

 

You can find Microsoft Whiteboard on the Microsoft Store, today: the app is free to use for everyone, but the collaboration features will require one of the participants to have an Office 365 subscription. The company also announced today that Microsoft Whiteboard is coming soon to iOS devices as well as the web, though there is no ETA yet.

 

www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-whiteboard-is-now-out-of-preview-on-windows-10-ios-and-web-versions-are-coming-soon

 

[pritchardavid]

Is this best to provision this in Windows 10 image or use the likes of SCCM (Currently setting that up)

 

Never added an app for a deployment image/computers

 

Only ever removed alot of useless ones

[DJ-1701]

Whiteboards appear to automatically get saved in the cloud, I assume under the users online profile a bit like OneDrive (although I can't see any files in OneDrive for these Whiteboards. PNG files of the whiteboard can be saved onto a local machine or network, but can not be imported by another user, so I would assume there is no way of giving independent copies of a whiteboard out which other teachers could manipulate but not affect your copy.

[free780]

If you deploy a store app with SCCM it will keep requesting the user to install it from the store. It's not the same as Win32 MSI/exes. An Azure AD joined win10 pc can have apps provisioned. I've yet to test a comanged PC.

[johnpd]

If you deploy a store app with SCCM it will keep requesting the user to install it from the store. It's not the same as Win32 MSI/exes. An Azure AD joined win10 pc can have apps provisioned. I've yet to test a comanged PC.

 

Hi I’m just in the process of building a new network and have done an offline app for whiteboard on latest windows 10. I’ve not seen it request the user update ‘yet.’

[Arthur]

If you deploy a store app with SCCM it will keep requesting the user to install it from the store.

Would this happen if you deploy it as an offline licensed app like @johnpd mentioned?

 

https://educationstore.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/details/microsoft-whiteboard/9mspc6mp8fm4

 

 

[free780]

I've not tested the offline app method. But by the looks of it it would work. Though I'm guessing it's powershell when you need to update it.

[Arthur]

Though I'm guessing it's powershell when you need to update it.

You can download an updated copy of the offline licensed app from the Store and deploy it through SCCM the same way.

 

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/teju_shyamsundar/2016/05/30/deploy-an-application-from-windows-store-for-business-via-system-center-configuration-manager/#comment-125

 

[Arthur]

The iOS and web versions are coming soon.

iOS and web versions available now.

 

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/microsoft-whiteboard/id1352499399

 

https://whiteboard.microsoft.com

[Arthur]

Microsoft Whiteboard for Education is now live on iPad

 

Microsoft teased the appearance of its Whiteboard for Education software for the iPad a few days ago and now it looks like the app and subsequent service is ready for prime time.

 

Today, 20 November 2018, Microsoft announced that Whiteboard for Education is available for Windows 10 and will be available for iOS in preview form next week.

 

The app is free and includes some interesting new features for education such as real-time collaboration, multi-input support, OneNote Class Notebooks support, multi-themed education stickers and accessibility tweaks that include Ink Beautification and Ink Grab.

 

To get started, users need to download the apps then login into Whiteboard with Office 365 Education account and then enable "Education Preview", in the Settings menu.

 

As with most Microsoft preview services, the company is seeking feedback from users and encourages users to want to participate, to visit the Whiteboard for Education Facebook page to leave comments, suggestions, and complaints.

 

More info: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Education-Blog/Introducing-Microsoft-Whiteboard-for-Education/ba-p/289137

 

Download: Windows 10 / iPad