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Kaushal-Mehta
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Jun 02, 2022

Now in public preview: Collaborative Annotation

Description Annotation—powered by Microsoft Whiteboard—helps you collaborate on things, like a design or presentation, while sharing your screen in a Teams meeting.     Flighting status Start...
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Emily Kirby's avatar
Emily Kirby
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Jun 03, 2022

Hi MatthiasRodler ,

 

Thank you for trying out the feature and for the feedback!

 

For the click-through experience, ie. the "screenshot" of your screen, we are hoping to add this in a future version of collaborative annotation. 

 

Regarding the error message your colleague is seeing, I think it may be due to the "GPU setting" being checked. Can you have them take a look and see if that's it? We just added this limitation to the public docs as well. Thanks!

Troubleshooting

If you don’t see the option to use annotation in a meeting: 

1. In the upper-right corner of Teams, select Settings and more > Settings > General. 

2. Under Application, uncheck the box next to Disable GPU hardware acceleration (requires restarting Teams). 
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-annotation-while-sharing-your-screen-in-teams-876ba527-7112-437e-b410-5aec7363c473 

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ericr280
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Jun 24, 2022
Having it live would be nice, or at least a quick keyboard shortcut to turn it on or off. I would also like to allow people viewing the screen to be given the ability to start the annotation. I know you want this all the time, but we do a lot of code pairing over teams, and this could be very helpful when trying to point something out to the presenter.

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