Expand WhiteBoard availability for GCC tenants
Currently the Whiteboard is not available to GCC customers. My Customer has seen the benefits and has requested the capability be added to the Government Community Cloud (GCC)
Dennis
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165 comments
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Thomas McEnery
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There is no legitimate excuse for this to have taken so long to rollout. MS sure has no issues increasing prices every year though.
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Stephen
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Whiteboard is needed in this new telecommuting world, video calls don't always help.
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Mark Creager
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Likewise, we are in also critical need of the collaboration functions like Whiteboard bring to Teams in the government setting.
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Matt
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We are in critical need of collaboration functions like Whiteboard brings to Teams in the government setting. We are getting heavy criticism from our users and requests to move to software like Mural, which our users are describing as "Like Teams, but much better". This puts us in a very hard place. Please put this on the roadmap ASAP. This is an essential function for a fully collaborative environment.
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Kathryn H.
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Like many other governments, we rely on Teams for collaboration, meetings, chats and file sharing. We've read about Whiteboard and have pressing needs for a virtual whiteboard. To be able to do this in Teams, like the private sector, would dramatically elevate our collaboration and problem solving. How soon will Whiteboard be available in Teams for the GCC?
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Israel Chavez
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According to your website it says that O365 G5 is available, which we are on that tier, and whiteboard is not available for our GCC.
What is needed in order for our organization to have Whiteboard enabled?
Thank you
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Patrick
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I've heard from a reliable source that the white board capability within Teams is very basic, and not very user friendly. I agree that we desperately need a enterprise wide white boarding tool, but the software package that SMA is using (Lucidchart and Lucidspark) might be a better option.
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Clarke Moyer
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And GCCH
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Mark
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we had this in out Tenet, only admins could use it, and every time I opened a ticket for it they said Oh its coming soon, or its rolling out and might take a month now its completely gone from my admin page. I have no Idea what is going on with our GCC tenet. we can't even use stickery notes, if our uses want to save notes they logon to notes with a personal account which we do not support them doing so.
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J Labo
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Latest I heard from someone internal is March 2021. But based on the past year of releases, July 2021 will probably be the release date
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Anonymous
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Honestly, the lack of responsiveness from MSFT about this, and the constantly changing dates (was mid year, then Q4 (right now), then... ??? who knows.
It is unacceptable in the current climate of heavily remote work. This is a business-critical collaboration tool for so many of us. Having these features needing to be supplemented by 3rd party products breaks the whole reason we're in GCC - which is federal approvals and assurance.
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Christopher
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government employees are working from home at unprecedented rates (like everyone else) and need a mechanism to conduct whiteboarding activities.
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Justin
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This is crucial!
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Anonymous
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I just don't understand. Why not have this in the GCC, too? We need it as much as business. We migrated gladly from Skype for Business, but now no Whiteboard, and it's not even on the roadmap. Please change this SOON!
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Anonymous
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Ditto all comments.
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Tim
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Please add Whiteboard to GCC. We need it for easier collaboration in Microsoft Teams meetings.
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Igor
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Yes, please add Whiteboard to GCC for easier collaboration in Microsoft Teams meetings.
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James
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Also vote for this on GCC High please.. Here is the link :)
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Nick
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Please add Whiteboard to GCC. We need it for easier collaboration in Microsoft Teams meetings.
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Teague Buchanan
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Our users are demanding this functionality in MS Teams for our enterprise (~4800). Can it be at least listed on the roadmap for GCC? All we need is a target quarter to tell staff, but most are clamoring to have WebEx or other similar licenses in lieu of this functionality being available.