Access the Whiteboard app through Office 365 portal

To deploy the whiteboard app, it is inevitable for you to enable the app within your subscribed Office 365 product. To do so, you need to follow a set of instructions:

• Open the Office 365 Admin app
• Go to “Services” and Add-ins and Click the “Whiteboard” option
• Use the slide bar on the next screen to turn the Whiteboard on

A quick glance in the past of Whiteboard app

Strangely, whoever brought the idea of not allowing the Whiteboard app to be downloaded through Office 365 portal, wasn’t thinking about the future aspects of the app. Before Microsoft’s official release of a preview of the app in December 2018, the application wasn’t even accessible for users on Windows devices. There is no official reason for this setup, only speculations.

There were two possible reasons why Microsoft never allowed Office 365 users to download Whiteboard:

• Firstly – the Whiteboard app was initially designed for the Surface Hub Devices to help access control of Surface presentation without using traditional input devices such as keyboard or mouse. The Whiteboard app was optimized for screen touch and Surface pen input.

Please Note: While you can draw on whiteboard by using a mouse, keyboard integration was never an option. The lack of keyboard support for PC users was the primary reason they never gave much credit to Whiteboard app.

• Secondly – the other possible reason for Microsoft downplaying the app is that PC users already have a better option – OneNote. The whiteboard app perfectly resembles the OneNote version that was designed for Windows Phone 7 a long time ago.

Please Note: It supported basic features but the latest PC version of OneNote is far superior and feature-rich than any previous version.

What should you expect from the future?

The collaboration across multiple Office 365 users might soon become available as well. The whiteboard app will soon be coming to iOS devices and will be accessible through Android OS platform via whiteboard Web Client Preview.

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