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About this guide Use the Surface Hub User Guide to learn how to use the features of your Surface Hub, whether in an ad- hoc or scheduled meeting. This guide is provided as a PDF. It is also available online at...
Keys on top row ..............................10 Keys on left side ..............................10 Keys above touchpad ............................10 Cortana ..........................11 Cortana commands for Surface Hub ........................11 Welcome screen ....................... 12 Icons you'll see during a meeting ..................12 Start screen ....................... 13 Open an app ........................
Before you end your meeting, email all your meeting notes from your Surface Hub to everyone who needs them. When you end the meeting, your Surface Hub deletes all your meeting notes and files from its hard drive to protect your privacy.
Surface Hub features Surface Hub comes in two sizes: 55” and 84”, with the following features. Touchscreen (9) Use the touchscreen to open apps, write or draw on the whiteboard, join a meeting, invite participants, and more. See Interacting with Surface Hub, below.
When someone enters the room, Surface Hub wakes up and displays the Welcome screen. When it stops detecting movement, it goes to sleep. If your Surface Hub seems to be asleep when you're in the room or does not respond as expected, try the following: ...
You can use your Surface Hub as a display for your laptop, tablet, or smartphone. See Connect, below. Touchscreen Surface Hub is designed for touch. Start a meeting, invite more people to join you, open apps, write on the whiteboard, send the results of the meeting to yourself and others—you can do it all with touch.
Cortana can respond to voice commands to answer questions, search the web, and launch apps. Start Cortana by doing any of the following: Speak directly to your Surface Hub. Begin with, “Hey, Cortana.” Select Cortana from the bottom of the screen.
Welcome screen The Welcome screen appears when your Surface Hub wakes up. When you close a session, your Surface Hub resets itself and the Welcome screen reappears. If the previous meeting is still active, select Resume to reopen it. You'll need to close the previous meeting before you can start a new one.
Get Started app The Get Started app is a great way to get up to speed fast. Consult it any time you need to know how to perform a task on your Surface Hub. To open the Get Started app, select Start >...
Surface Hub screen appear in the file on the device you're using to project. For example, if someone circles a paragraph in a Word doc on the Surface Hub screen, that circle appears in the file on the tablet you used to project the file. If you save the file on the tablet, you also save the circle around the paragraph.
At the end of a meeting, you must close the session. Be sure to email any meeting notes you want to keep before you close the session. To protect your privacy, Surface Hub deletes all the notes from your meeting when you close the session.
You can join the meeting before it starts to get things ready. Just select the link for your meeting from the Surface Hub Welcome screen. If the previous meeting was left running, you'll need to close it before you start your meeting. This will delete all data from that meeting.
Accessing content attached to meeting invite Prior to an attachment being visible on the Surface Hub, the Skype for Business meeting originator must present the content while connected to the meeting. To do this, select Present > Manage Content on the meeting originator’s Skype for Business client.
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To begin displaying this content on the Surface Hub, a user must first request a PIN. This is done to protect your content from unauthorized viewing. On the Surface Hub, select Content from the menu at the left or right edge of the Surface Hub screen, and then choose the PowerPoint file you wish to view.
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Choose the content owner that is present and then select Send. This individual should be present in the same room as the Surface Hub for quick PIN retrieval. An email containing the four-digit code will be sent to this user. Once received, enter the Content PIN into the next window.
During a Skype for Business session, remote users can share PowerPoint files with the Surface Hub as well as all participants. Any shared files will be shown on the Surface Hub in the Content tab To begin sharing a file with the meeting participants, click Present within your Skype for Business desktop client and choose “Present PowerPoint Files…”...
. Then choose any of the following settings: Active camera Automate camera settings: Let your Surface Hub determine which camera to use. The camera will use sound and motion detection to focus on who's talking. A light appears under each camera. ...
Changes made to data on your computer and projected to your Surface Hub can be saved to your computer. If you don’t email your data before you end the meeting, it will be irretrievably lost. MPORTANT Here's how to send an email from the account associated with the current session, either the meeting organizer for a scheduled meeting or the Surface Hub account for an ad-hoc meeting.
The next group using the Surface Hub can email your data to you if it was a scheduled meeting or if they know you were the last one to use the Surface Hub. Or, they can just end your meeting, discarding all your session data.
Be sure to email your data at the end of each meeting. When you end a meeting, all your notes and any files you worked on are deleted from the Surface Hub hard drive. If you ever want to wipe the drive, your Surface Hub admin can reset the onboard computer to factory settings.
Your admin can also remove the hard drive if you're concerned about it leaving the premises during repair or replacement. The hard drive is keyed to your Surface Hub and can't be put in a different computer to access data.