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Iron Contributor

Mar 23, 2020

Awareness of temporary adjustments in Microsoft OneNote

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mtilson

Brass Contributor

Mar 24, 2020

OneNotePM The Office 365 message center announcement listed "OneNote in Teams will be read-only for commercial tenants, excluding EDU. Users can go to OneNote for the web for editing" but that is not mentioned in this article. I just tested with OneNote in Teams and see a banner that shows "We're experiencing limitations with OneNote in Microsoft Teams. Please use OneNote for the web to edit this notebook."

I understand the need to make adjustments during this time but can you explain how this change technically helps?

We have encouraged OneNote use in Teams as we are rolling out the product in our org. One of the great advantages of Teams is being able to collaborate in a single pane of glass. Having to open OneNote via a browser instance or OneNote application to edit degrades that experience.

Ed Hansberry

Iron Contributor

Mar 24, 2020

I suspect it is more of a help for bandwidth in Teams and interconnectivity between systems than a help specifically to OneNote. Not ideal, but I’d rather see purposeful changes that are clear to users (like the warning you saw) vs things just breaking or being too slow.

It is temporary. I’m sure MS is increasing capacity and tweaking code to handle the massive spike in usage. Let’s all take a breath and roll with it for a few days and weeks as the situation evolves.