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.
Microsoft whiteboard where is the data stored?
Whiteboard stores data at rest in Microsoft Azure’s United States or West Europe regions, depending on the region of the tenant. Additional regions are on our future roadmap.
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.
Where is the whiteboard preview app stored?
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. Currently the data is stored in the United States, but will expand to other regions when the app goes into production.
Where is my Office 365 Customer data stored?
To confirm where customer data is stored for existing Office 365 services, please view tenant specific data location information in your Office 365 Admin Center in Settings | Org settings | Organization profile | Data location card.
What account do I need to use the whiteboard for the web?
To use the Whiteboard for the web, you must sign in with a Microsoft 365 account (work or school). How do I enable or disable Whiteboard for my organization?
One more question we ran across in our research was “What is the average size of a whiteboard?”.
One source claimed that an average whiteboard may be anywhere from 50KB to 1MB in size and located wherever your ODB content resides. To check where new data is created, see Where your Microsoft 365 customer data is stored and look at the location for ODB.