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Surface Hub Suggestion Box
Huge Surface Hub fan here. I thought I'd start a suggestion box thread. Feel free to contribute. I'll start with my next reply!
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David Phillips Just starting to use these in my new role. Really love the features and general awesomeness!
Part of the reason I love these is I communicate best by drawing, scribbling etc. Wish you could change the marker tip to chisel or calligraphy pen, brush etc. in the Whiteboard app. Have a lot of content I do now on a standard whiteboard that I can almost do on the Surface Hub - but not quite. Any chance this is a coming feature?
I think it could be a good idea to offer the possibility when we close the session to liberate the room on the calendar.
For example, I book a room from 9h am to 11 am but my meeting finish at 10h am. 1 hour earlier.
I close my session on surface hub at 10am. The surface hub could ask me if I free the room. If yes the meeting on outlook will update to finish at 10 am instead of 11 am. Like that, someone could reserve the room from 10am to 11am.
I am not sure to be clear.
Better that should be if after a delay (15min for example) the room is steel empty (with camera), the room will be released.
For example with my previous example. If at 9h15 am the surface hub see no one, it released the room on the calendar.
Wild suggestion:
"Surface Hub Lite" running on the new Raspberry Pi 4.
Surface Hub is great, but relatively costly for small businesses, the functionality of document sharing and Miracast are great, so providing a lightweight version of Surface Hub which can be plugged into an existing conventional TV in meeting rooms would be a great compliment to Surface Hub.
- Also, if you just want Miracast capabilities, consider the Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter: https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-gb/products/adapters/microsoft-wireless-display-adapter/cg4-00003
Daniel Hudson I regularly use the remote display capabilities of Windows 10, but Apple doesn't support Miracast and many colleagues use Macbooks with Teams. It would be slicker to have either a Teams Room or Surface Hub Lite on the TV without expensive hardware.
Check out Microsoft Teams Rooms.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/room-systems/
David Phillips Yes, although all the solutions there are relatively expensive.
The surface series (in my case the Surface 3) would greatly benefit from a bios option to disable the touch screen. When the touch screen becomes compromised, starting the computer can become slow or impossible due to the screen registering rapid inputs.
- This suggestion box is for the Microsoft Surface Hub and not all Microsoft Surface devices.
Does anybody know if Surface Dial is support on the first generation Surface Hub with screen interactions? Getting ready to start a large project using first gen Hubs and considered using the dials for data exploration.
- Hi Mike
Sadly no, Surface Dial is not supported on Surface Hub.
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- I think I could cope without a teams app if the hub could join a teams meeting in the same way it joins a SFB meeting?
- Hi Jim. I believe that the experience will be the same as it is on Skype Room Systems. The Surface Hub will show and join Teams meetings the exact same way as it does Skype for Business, and will show a logo on the Welcome Screen in the meeting details to identify which is being used.
We could use a free built in PDF app. We often have executive meetings who need to display large (500+ page) PDF files with bookmarks. The Edge browser displays the file, but there are no bookmarks.
David Phillips wrote:We could use a free built in PDF app. We often have executive meetings who need to display large (500+ page) PDF files with bookmarks. The Edge browser displays the file, but there are no bookmarks.
I totally agree. I've noticed that PDFs stored on OneDrive open much slower with Edge than most other file types and so a good reader would be great!
Hi all,
I just wanted to let you all know that this thread has not gone unnoticed, and that we are collecting the suggestions and forwarding them up the ladder for review.
Thanks,
David Wolters
Surface Community Team
A suggestion that Microsoft either release very soon the Teams app for the Windows Store and one designed for the Hub or allow Video and Audio Conferencing via the Teams web client especially now that they plan to replace SfB with Teams so that this will work on the Surface Hub. Hopefully Microsoft's Surface Hub team is reading this line of posts in the TechCommunity!
That will be coming next year as per the roadmap for Teams (end of June 18). Ignite session here about it https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/53581
Deleted wrote:That will be coming next year as per the roadmap for Teams (end of June 18). Ignite session here about it https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/53581
Thanks for this Graham!
Bidirectional whiteboard (members at Surface Hub or remotely connected Surface users) can all draw simultaneously. This has been a day-one need of this platform, and sorely missed. :/
oOH, looks like this is now possible (since May perhaps, or definitely this summer).
Now we just need Microsoft to release the Whiteboard app to Windows 10 store for non-Hub devices, then other touch/pen devices (like my Surface Studio or Surface Pro) can participate in this collaborative session remotely as well. Unfortunately that didn't come out in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (2017), so I'm hoping that will come out shortly.
Hi Chris
This was implemented with the recent release of the new Microsoft Whiteboard app. The current limitation being it only works between 2 or more Surface Hubs, and they have to be part of the same domain.
Hopefully they allow Hub-to-hub whiteboarding between companies soon, and also support to other devices when they release MS Whiteboard to Windows 10 users.Edit: Microsoft Whiteboard is now available in preview on Windows 10 and Windows 10 Team, and it supports multi-device co-authoring. We've been testing it for the last couple of days and it's freaking AWESOME!
Does anyone know when the Whiteboard app will be available for Windows 10 users? I know you can share the Whiteboard between Surface Hubs, but when will other users on Surface Pros, Surface Books other Win 10 devices?
