Jun 10 2019 08:47 AM
So we have some users that are really excited to use Whiteboard in Teams. As an Admin, I can see whiteboard in my meetings as can our other admins. Our general users, on the other hand, cannot.
Does anyone else have this issue?
Does anyone know why Whiteboard may not be showing up for our users?
Jun 10 2019 09:02 AM
Hi @Jon Ostroushko,
is your whiteboard maybe turned off? In your Teams Meeting policies below the content, sharing part is a setting for the whiteboard.
In case it is turned on make sure the right policies are attached to the users!
Sven
Jun 10 2019 12:27 PM
@svenseidenbergThanks. I just checked as I was not aware there was a setting in the Teams Meeting policies. Unfortunately this already turned on (Global (org Wide) Policy) and we do have Teams turned on in the Services and Add-Ins section of O365 Settings.
So it appears that everything that should be turned to On is.
Jun 10 2019 12:31 PM
Jun 10 2019 12:37 PM
@Chris WebbGood question.
I just went in and verified that the users we are looking at in this test are examples of the rest of the business. Both an Admin and the user in question are the same as others. We have them set to use Org-Wide settings. In the Org-Wide settings we have defined the Upgrade mode to be Teams Only.
So that piece should be correct as well, from what I can tell.
Jun 10 2019 12:41 PM
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Jun 10 2019 01:47 PM
@Jon OstroushkoIs Whiteboard enabled under the user's licensing?
Jun 10 2019 02:13 PM
@Deb_WGood suggestion. I verified that all users do have the license.
@adam deltingerWe do have a few people set to Early Release but that doesn't appear to be consistent with the issue. Good Suggestion.
@Chris WebbThat is a good idea. If I replicate the default policy and apply it that might be a good thing to try. I will take a crack at that tomorrow.
Jun 13 2019 12:16 AM
we also have the same issue, whiteboard is not available for any user but is enabled in tenant, in meeting policy and licensing is turned on.
Jun 13 2019 06:28 AM
@David BargnaI am glad to hear this isn't limited to just us. I thought I was going crazy over here.
Jun 18 2019 02:20 PM
@Chris WebbI just got around to switching one of my users Meeting Policy to a Test one that I created with the same settings as the Company Default and this appears to have fixed the issue for the user. I have asked another user to try and see if they are showing up for them in case something changed that wasn't directly related to this. But we might have found a bug and workaround.
Jun 18 2019 02:22 PM
Jun 18 2019 02:24 PM
@Chris WebbGreat idea. I think there might be a couple settings I wanted to change anyhow. I will make that change and see how it works out for some other users.
Jun 19 2019 07:30 AM
I did check with one additional users yesterday and it appears they did have Whiteboard available now. So I am not sure if just assigning the one policy to someone else helped but we are going to check with a couple more users. If that works I will switch the initial user back to the default policy.
Sep 05 2019 01:12 AM
We had the same issue on our tenant, we had the app switched on in the admin portal, reviewed our policy and it still only worked for a select few users.
But then it turned out that if we asked someone to sign out from teams en then sign in again, it appeared for that user. And it only worked if you right-clicked the teams desktop-app and then signed in again. strangely, simply rebooting the computer did not fix it for us.
Now the whiteboard is visible in both desktop and the web app as well. But we have not tried to do the sign out from the web app to see if that would also solve it.
Nov 11 2019 10:25 AM
I installed Whiteboard into a Chat with a small group of my Team, which I can see but nobody else in the Chat can. It would be great to have the Whiteboard view-able between the 2 of us or a small group of us in a Chat. And if we do jump into a small group meeting we can all work in that shared Whiteboard.
Is't that the beauty of a whiteboard a small group can visualize their conversation.
About the only way I've found this can work is in a OneNote that's pinned to the Team or a Chat session. In OneNote everyone in that Chat can see and input/share.
Nov 11 2019 03:03 PM
Nov 11 2019 04:07 PM
@Chris Webb Looking forward to seeing that feature. It should be part of the domain and Azure AD users. This way as a group in a meeting or even as a Chat window it would be great to have it integrated.
Also can't wait for the ability to fly-out Chat windows. Saw that in Teams preview update in Ignite video.