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I’ve recently gotten this question twice now:  “What’s the roadmap & commitment to Microsoft Whiteboard?”

This has surprised me a bit considering we just recently released two major features to the public in the last few months:

• Whiteboard for Microsoft Teams
  Microsoft Whiteboard integration with Microsoft Teams was released back in November 2019.  It should be in your tenant or if it’s not, it’ll be there soon.
  (There’s an article in the DOCS that talk about Managing the Whiteboard in Teams as well.)
• Whiteboard for the Web
  Also known as the HTML client for Whiteboard was released in November 2019 as well at https://whiteboard.microsoft.com.

WHITEBOARD ROADMAP
The public web site shares a Whiteboard FAQ that might be of interest.

Additionally, the Whiteboard team is finishing up Tenant Admin Privacy Controls for Microsoft Whiteboard right now.  The Public Whiteboard roadmap is here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?ms.url=roadmap&rtc=1&filters=&searchterms=whiteboard

USERVOICE FOR WHITEBOARD
Whiteboard has a UserVoice site and if you parse through the UserVoice site for Whiteboard, you can get a glimpse at some of what they’ve confirmed that they’re “working on”.  For example:

• Whiteboard for Android: https://whiteboard.uservoice.com/forums/915913-whiteboard-for-iphone-ipad/suggestions/33159877-android-app
• Support for AAD Conditional Access as an approved client: https://whiteboard.uservoice.com/forums/915913-whiteboard-for-iphone-ipad/suggestions/36014893-support-for-aad-conditional-access-as-an-approved
• Display name of boards on home: https://whiteboard.uservoice.com/forums/915913-whiteboard-for-iphone-ipad/suggestions/35860765-display-name-of-boards-on-home
• Lock/unlock the whiteboard for student editing: https://whiteboard.uservoice.com/forums/915919-whiteboard-for-windows-10/suggestions/35693146-as-a-teacher-be-able-to-lock-unlock-the-whiteboar
• The generate link button only allows a user to login via the app or download the app, it should also allow login to the web preview: https://whiteboard.uservoice.com/forums/915916-whiteboard-web/suggestions/35587546-the-generate-link-button-only-allows-a-user-to-log