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jab365cloud
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Dec 11, 2017
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Opening .wbx file from the surface hub

Hello when you log on a Surface Hub with your O365 account and start a collaboration session with the Whiteboard, it create an .wbx file in your OD4B under a folder name "WhiteBoard App Data" and pro...
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    Daniel Hudson
    Dec 12, 2017

    Hi Both

     

    The WBX file I believe is just a storage medium for containing the Whiteboard data for the last session. It's not meant to be usable for the end user, and you can't use it to reopen a previous collaboration session.

     

    When exiting a collaboration session on the current version of MS Whiteboard, it does remind you to save your Whiteboard to OneDrive or via email otherwise all data will be lost.

     

    As Steven Collier has mentioned, try using the new Whiteboard Preview app which allows multiple whiteboards to persist under your O365 user account instead if you require this kind of functionality.

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Steven Collier
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Dec 11, 2017

jab365cloud I would look at the new preview version of the whiteboard app, it starts to show where Microsoft are going with whiteboard.

 

.. and I never figured out a way to reopen a saved whiteboard in the current GA version.

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