Microsoft Whiteboard is a digital canvas in Microsoft 365 where people collaborate in real time on an infinite canvas designed for pen, touch and keyboard. It is used in Microsoft Teams meetings, chats and channels, as a standalone app and on Surface Hub devices. It is a cloud service that comes with Microsoft 365; administrators manage access, sharing and privacy settings through the Microsoft 365 admin centre and PowerShell.
Microsoft is headquartered in the United States and Whiteboard is proprietary. New whiteboards are stored in the OneDrive of the person who creates them, so their location follows the organisation's OneDrive data location. Older boards created in Azure, and boards started on Surface Hub or Teams Rooms devices, are stored in Azure, in locations that vary by country. OneDrive storage supports retention policies, legal hold and DLP. Microsoft lists no specific data residency commitments for Whiteboard. For a European organisation, the data can therefore be located in the EU, but the service remains under US jurisdiction.