Whiteboard: Open existing whiteboard in Teams meetings

Users will be able to choose from preexisting whiteboards in their board picker to share during a Teams meeting.

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Whiteboard: Text formatting

This brings text formatting functionality in Whiteboard, optimizing the default font style (for text boxes) & allowing you to format text among other functionalities!

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Whiteboard: Embedded Online Video

Users can insert a video URL and have the video appear directly on the canvas.

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Whiteboard: Timer

Adding a timer to Whiteboard to help enable users to run timed activities, such as a timed brainstorm.

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Whiteboard: Save and share user templates

Users will have the ability to save whiteboards as a template, and will be able to share that template with other individual users.

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Whiteboard: Commenting

The ability to add comments on a whiteboard to aid in discussion with board participants. This will include a comments pane to see all comments on a given whiteboard.

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Whiteboard: Follow

Users will have the ability to invite users on a whiteboard during a Teams meeting to follow their viewpoint as they navigate and interact with the canvas.

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Whiteboard: Bing Image Search

The ability to search online images through Bing is coming soon to Whiteboard web, Teams and Windows App. This service can be controlled by optional connected experiences policy, which controls whether users have access to the functionality.
More info: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/privacy-settings-in-microsoft-whiteboard-ed9f0de9-71be-44c2-837d-e0f448660be1#optional

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Whiteboard: Connected experience controls

Microsoft Whiteboard on Windows, Teams, web, mobile, and Surface Hub applications will support optional connected experiences, with Windows and Surface Hub applications supporting them after upgrade to the new client. The only optional connected experience that will be available initially is the ability for users to provide feedback using Microsoft Feedback portal, with additional features being added in the future. Tenants can opt-out of these experiences within their Office policies, and Individual users will be able to opt-out of these features within the Whiteboard application.
More info: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2189610

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Whiteboard: Web Templates

Participants in Teams and on Whiteboard for the Web can add a variety of built-in templates for meetings, workshops, decision making, planning, design thinking and more.

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