The current Whiteboard app (that comes with Surface Hub) stores whiteboard data in the user’s One. Drive for Business storage. As such it’s subject to any tenant region storage controls. The Whiteboard Preview app that is available from the Store saved the app data in Azure linked to your tenant.
There’s no indication of where your whiteboards are saved to. No choice about where to save on your computer. Most likely all whiteboards are saved to Microsoft’s cloud … but where? No control over privacy nor security. No way to reliably delete whiteboards nor backup. Microsoft Whiteboard is hard to use because it lacks even basic user tips.
Open the Save File dialog by doing one of the following: From the File menu, select Save and then choose Whiteboard. The Select Screens dialog box appears. Choose whether you want to save all the screens in the Current Screen Group, only the Current Screen or Selected Screens.
Whiteboard stores newly created boards in different locations depending on the country, go to Microsoft 365 data locations for details. Attachments: Up to 10 attachments (including images) can be used with a maximum of 3.0 Mi. B each and 30.0 Mi, and b total.
What formats can I save the Whiteboard screens in?
You can save the Whiteboard screens in the following formats: When Whiteboard screens are saved as a Whiteboard file (.wbd), they are saved as one file that can only be imported and reviewed in an Blackboard Collaborate session.
Another popular inquiry is “How do I save a whiteboard as a png?”.
To do so, go to the whiteboard settings from the three-bar icon and select Format background. Save Whiteboard as PNG Apart from saving whiteboards to your Microsoft accounts (happens automatically), you can even save it as a PNG or SVG file. However, it’s a manual process, and you need to use the Export option.
What is the Whiteboard app data folder in OneDrive?
When you start a collaboration session, Whiteboard creates a folder in your One. Drive for Business named Whiteboard App Data to store your shared whiteboards. After some collaboration sessions, this folder may continue to sync or process changes indefinitely.