Ian from Whiteboard here 🙋♂️ Great video! Do note if you screen share Whiteboard Web in your Teams Meeting, it won't be automatically shared and collaborative, like if you launch Whiteboard from Teams' Share menu. We are working to include Whiteboard in the meeting recording (as Frank shows in the video) and to improve opening Whiteboard from OneDrive in other places like our Windows app.
Great review, this information is always useful. My biggest complain about the new version, is that we can not draw dinamic excel style tables, for me that was my most useful tool from the original version and at least for me worked just fine.
@@johnczech7074 I usually get systems with at least 16GB RAM for hosting VMs. This leaves enough for the host and a couple VMs to practice Client/Server skills. Lately I’ve been getting 32GB systems - but that may be a little too much unless you have a specific need
The MS whiteboard that came with the windows 11 on my my thinkpad does not have laser pointer function. Also, the pointer is a very small and difficult to see. Is there any way I can change the whiteboard pointer size and also have a laser pointer?
Maybe I'm using whiteboard for the wrong purposes, but I've been using it for keeping notes while I watch an educational video in Web browser on my Surface. Using the Web version wouldn't be possible since in tablet mode only one instance of Edge can run so I'd have to keep switching tabs. I do wish that they would enable a file system capability as it won't take long before the space gets pretty crowded on the whiteboard open screen...
I think that a better App for note-taking would be OneNote. It will give you much better functionality and might be worth looking into. You can organize, retrieve, and work with things much better than with Whiteboard.
@@LearningandTechnology Ok thanks. I've been using onenote for ages on my my android phone, but it's basically become completely useless, unable to sync, I lost my entire history of notes and wasn't able to recover them on any device, so I've been pretty loathe to use it since. Does it offer a decent experience using the pen? My hope was to replace a physical notepad in classes but maybe we're just not there yet with Microsoft devices?
@@chrisburn7178 I use OneNote on my Surface and really like it - the pen can be used for drawing quite well. Microsoft is in the process of consolidating One Note into a single Application - they had different versions for some odd reason. So I use the Desktop version and everything seems to work well. The key is to make sure you just use one account for everything.
@@LearningandTechnology Ok I'll give it a go. It certainly offers a much better way of organising things even though the pen functionality is a little less fluid than whiteboard (the back end of the pen erases whole strokes rather than as a real eraser works in whiteboard). I'm still a bit scared of sync problems even with one account - is there any way to back up notebooks to a physical drive?
@@chrisburn7178 yes - you can save your OneNote notebooks to your hard drive. That’s what I do. I save them to my hard drive and sync that folder . So if needed, I have them saved locally.
Ian from Whiteboard here 🙋♂️ Great video! Do note if you screen share Whiteboard Web in your Teams Meeting, it won't be automatically shared and collaborative, like if you launch Whiteboard from Teams' Share menu. We are working to include Whiteboard in the meeting recording (as Frank shows in the video) and to improve opening Whiteboard from OneDrive in other places like our Windows app.
Thanks so much! This was very clarifying and helpful!
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Great review, this information is always useful. My biggest complain about the new version, is that we can not draw dinamic excel style tables, for me that was my most useful tool from the original version and at least for me worked just fine.
The table feature was very useful - I’m using Notes grids now, but I did like the tables
useful thanks
Thank you sir! Really excellent series!
Glad they are helpful! Thank you for watching and commenting!
@@LearningandTechnology what size memory do you recommend for learning virtulization?
@@johnczech7074 I usually get systems with at least 16GB RAM for hosting VMs. This leaves enough for the host and a couple VMs to practice Client/Server skills.
Lately I’ve been getting 32GB systems - but that may be a little too much unless you have a specific need
@@LearningandTechnology thank you sir!
The MS whiteboard that came with the windows 11 on my my thinkpad does not have laser pointer function. Also, the pointer is a very small and difficult to see. Is there any way I can change the whiteboard pointer size and also have a laser pointer?
Yes to all! Check out my latest video on whiteboard 2023 - go to whiteboard.microsoft.com to access the latest version and all the features.
Maybe I'm using whiteboard for the wrong purposes, but I've been using it for keeping notes while I watch an educational video in Web browser on my Surface. Using the Web version wouldn't be possible since in tablet mode only one instance of Edge can run so I'd have to keep switching tabs. I do wish that they would enable a file system capability as it won't take long before the space gets pretty crowded on the whiteboard open screen...
I think that a better App for note-taking would be OneNote. It will give you much better functionality and might be worth looking into. You can organize, retrieve, and work with things much better than with Whiteboard.
@@LearningandTechnology Ok thanks. I've been using onenote for ages on my my android phone, but it's basically become completely useless, unable to sync, I lost my entire history of notes and wasn't able to recover them on any device, so I've been pretty loathe to use it since. Does it offer a decent experience using the pen? My hope was to replace a physical notepad in classes but maybe we're just not there yet with Microsoft devices?
@@chrisburn7178 I use OneNote on my Surface and really like it - the pen can be used for drawing quite well.
Microsoft is in the process of consolidating One Note into a single Application - they had different versions for some odd reason. So I use the Desktop version and everything seems to work well. The key is to make sure you just use one account for everything.
@@LearningandTechnology Ok I'll give it a go. It certainly offers a much better way of organising things even though the pen functionality is a little less fluid than whiteboard (the back end of the pen erases whole strokes rather than as a real eraser works in whiteboard). I'm still a bit scared of sync problems even with one account - is there any way to back up notebooks to a physical drive?
@@chrisburn7178 yes - you can save your OneNote notebooks to your hard drive. That’s what I do. I save them to my hard drive and sync that folder . So if needed, I have them saved locally.