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TonyRedmond
MVP
May 19, 2023

Microsoft Retires the Board View from the OWA Calendar

  The Outlook board view originated as Project Moca, an app to organize items from Outlook and other sources, then became the board view in the OWA calendar. That status lasted two years and now Mi...
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George-DGL
Copper Contributor
May 30, 2023

TonyRedmond 

 

This seems pretty shortsighted on Microsoft's part, and they seem to be removing a feature before the vast majority of Microsoft Exchange users can use it.

 

Currently, the board view is only available in OWA and not in the current release of the Outlook client on Windows desktops. Until a few days ago (and now gone), it is only available in the new Outlook client, which is only available to Office Insiders. Most Insiders are NOT using the new Outlook client as their go-to email application because it still misses critical features like opening a calendar invite, availability of .pst files, Shared Mailboxes and adding external email accounts other than Gmail.

 

Board view needs an Inbox widget with at least the primary inbox, but preferably with an aggregate inbox of all (or user-selectable) inboxes since we already have that view on Outlook mobile clients.

 

Want to increase adoption:

 

  • force the board view as the default start page for all OWA and desktop clients
  • populate the default board with inbox, agenda, My Day task list, notes, tips and weather
  • make this page available in Teams

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