By theregister.com
Publication Date: 2026-08-26 00:00:00
PERSONAL TECH
Users have a little more time to migrate from Azure storage to OneDrive
Microsoft is giving customers who are still clinging to its doomed legacy Whiteboard technology a lifeline, and has pushed the deletion date to October 16, 2026.
The migration tooling for “legacy enterprise whiteboards” will be retired on September 25, 2026, and the standalone Microsoft Whiteboard app will be deprecated on November 30, 2026.
To be clear, Microsoft Whiteboard as a concept is not going away – this is more about migration for Azure-based files.
The original dates were August 22 for the migration tooling, September 5 for the permanent deletion, and September 14 for the app deprecation. Therefore, customers have been granted a little more time to make the transition to OneDrive-backed whiteboards.
Microsoft did not respond to a query about why it had moved the milestones. The lateness of the announcement…