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MC611685 · Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 Experts

From Microsoft Corporation
Technical Bulletin MC611685 · Published Jun 27, 2023

Message Summary

We are rolling out an enhancement to the current Collaborative Annotations experience whereby screen sharers can click through the annotations layer and interact with underlying content without stopping the existing annotation session. After a sharer initiates annotations from their presenter toolbar, sharers will be able to interact with their background to edit their content by default.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 127900.

When this will happen:

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late July and expect to complete by mid-August.

GCC-High and DoD: We will begin rolling out early August and expect to complete by mid-August.

How this will affect your organization:

Click through is available on desktop (Windows and Mac) and web. When users share their screen in Teams meetings and select Start annotation in the presenter toolbar, they will see a new button, Interact with background, in Microsoft Whiteboard toolset which allows them to interact with underlying content without stopping the existing annotation session.


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What you need to do to prepare:

No preparation is needed. You may want to update your training materials indicating that the feature is now supported.

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