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    • SE_TCH's avatar
      SE_TCH
      Brass Contributor
      May 07, 2020

      adam deltinger - is it just me or is this an absolute own-goal on the part of MSFT? 

       

      It's really not acceptable to have to have a third party annotation tool. I use Zoom for all my external meetings (and about half of my internal meetings) precisely because I can annotate.

       

      Anyone know where we can get a campaign together and get this feature added?

    • Cozza1971's avatar
      Cozza1971
      Copper Contributor
      Jan 30, 2021

      Unfortunately without the ability to import an image or images the whiteboard in Teams is seriously lacking in functionality.  adam deltinger 

      • jkhouw's avatar
        jkhouw
        Copper Contributor
        Mar 06, 2021
        Just imagine it being 2021, the whole world has had an entire year of remote work and conference calls, and have a web conference product that still doesnt support this.

        I am amazed their own internal msft userbase isnt demanding this... maybe they dont work collaboratively?
  • Ty_F_tyGraph's avatar
    Ty_F_tyGraph
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 21, 2021
    Really need annotation for training and supporting clients on our Power BI apps! Everyone's experience is degraded without the visual cues and much time is wasted orienting the user/group verbally. Will make all the difference 🙂
  • stevesandrio's avatar
    stevesandrio
    Copper Contributor
    May 13, 2020
    Screen capture and screen sharing it with picture editor (poor man‘s solution)
    • SE_TCH's avatar
      SE_TCH
      Brass Contributor
      May 13, 2020

      stevesandrio good suggestion.  Here's another.  Just use Zoom until Microsoft fixes this.

    • Thomsch's avatar
      Thomsch
      Iron Contributor
      Jun 24, 2020

      MikeWilcox the use case is a different one. We actually use remote assist with the Hololens setup and it works ok. But the use case of the TO is to annotate a screen in front of you. Any additional equipment besides the mouse is in the way

  • danieltanequus's avatar
    danieltanequus
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 20, 2021
    please can you add the annotate feature!!!!!!! many clients don't want to use zoom because of the perceived security issues
  • Tim_Overbeck's avatar
    Tim_Overbeck
    Copper Contributor
    May 26, 2022
    Can this please get added as a feature?
    How can teams be a quality collaboration tool if you can't fully collaborate??
    Our team meets to go over maps and other documents that we need annotate together. This has been asked for since 2020 and is a great feature of Zoom but our company prefers to keep things in teams as much as possible. I hate having to set up a Zoom meeting just so we can all be able to annotate together.
    This seriously can't be that hard to add this feature
  • tstarkey's avatar
    tstarkey
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 23, 2022

    DAmmar2370 

     

    Not sure posting here is the right place, but maybe someone can help out, since I am banging my head on this.

     

    Happy to see the annotation pen icon when I share screens.  However, its not working.  If I am the host, I can click this icon, but nothing happens.  No blue box around the screen, no annotation tools pop up.  The icon stays solid like I am supposed to be annotating, but nothing.  When I click the icon, other viewers see a spinning icon, but nothing else.

     

    I had another user host the meeting, and when they clicked the icon, they got the annotation tools.  They said they could draw all over their screen, but I could not see the annotations.  I could see their pointer moving around, and could tell that it was in either pen or highlighter mode by its shape and color, but none of the annotation showed through to my screen.

     

    I read on MS site overviewing this topic that I might need to turn off GPU hardware acceleration but that did not help.

     

    Suggestions?

    Thanks

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