1. Microsoft 2016
6/26/2018 6:05 PM
BRK3044
Integrate line of business services with Outlook on Windows, Mac and web
Andrew Salamatov
Bharathan Venkateswaran
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2. Agenda Platform Overview Managing Add-ins
How it works
What’s new
Managing Add-ins
Add-in life cycle
Admin capabilities
Build an add-in from scratch!
Best practices

3. Platform overview

4. What is an Outlook Add-in?
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Intro to Mail Add-ins
What is an Outlook Add-in?
Web application loaded inside an Outlook application
Embedded inline or as task pane within mail or appointment.
Write once, run anywhere Outlook runs
Built using Web technologies
HTML 5 and CSS used to construct user interface
JavaScript and jQuery used to add executable logic and event handlers
Programmatically interacts with Outlook
Programmatically control Outlook through client APIs (office.js)
Outlook message and appointment/meeting
Access to core item properties in read and compose
Office.js
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5. Anatomy of a mail add-in
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Intro to Mail Add-ins
Anatomy of a mail add-in
O365/Exchange/Outlook.com
stores add-in manifests
Cloud Service
hosts add-in HTML + JS
Microsoft CDN
hosts JS APIs (Office.js)
XML-based manifest
Manifest points to a Web page
Manifest defines required capabilities
Installed in users mail box
Add-in Web Page
Developer hosts the HTML+JavaScript code
Add-ins use a JavaScript API to interact with Outlook by loading the JS API
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6. Add-in Extension Points in the Outlook UI
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Add-in Extension Points in the Outlook UI
Command
Command in the Office UI (e.g. ribbon button) to launch other UI and/or perform a background task. Provides 1-click way for users to invoke add-in actions
Contextual Popup
Popup window launched by clicking on a hyperlink that represents a “detected entity”
Module
Brand new modules in Outlook desktop providing full screen UX with custom ribbon, navigation pane and main canvas
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7. New Announcements Commands on Outlook Mac and Web New Store experience
Microsoft 2016
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New Announcements
Commands on Outlook Mac and Web
New Store experience
Pinnable task pane
Coming soon!
All existing Outlook add-ins will be available
Full support for Mail and appointment compose
Join the Office Insider Fast program for Mac
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8. Add-in Demo
Add in command on Mac
Persistent task pane

9. Managing add-ins

10. Sources of Add-Ins/Apps
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Sources of Add-Ins/Apps
Specific
(Bespoke)
developed internally or by a partner to solve a specific business need
e.g. Contoso Company Review System
How can you deploy these within an Organization?
ISV-built
(Customized)
Written by a partner. Customized specifically for an organization
e.g. Fabrikam Legal Tracker, customized for Contoso
ISV-built
(Standard)
Add-In available for anyone to use. May be backed by a paid service
e.g.: Fabrikam CRM System
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11. Add-In Lifecycle Acquire/Build Validate Deploy Feedback Update
Acquire Add-in directly from a 3rd party
OR build in house
Acquire/Build
Validate with small group of users that Add-in suits the business need
Validate
Push out the Add-in to a broader audience
Deploy
Feedback to developer what improvements should be made
Feedback
Add-in is updated to a more recent version
Update

12. Admin Capabilities - Outlook add ins
Acquire
LOB
ISV built
Office store
Target
Org wide
Users
Deploy
Optional
Mandatory

13. Demo
Exchange admin center

14. Outlook Deployment Deploying to Org Deploying to individual users
Can assign to individual users via PowerShell
Detailed PowerShell documentation at Technet here
$a= Get-DistributionGroupMember FinanceTeam
Set-App -OrganizationApp -Identity 3f10017a-9bbe-4a23-834b-6a8fe3af0e37 -ProvidedTo SpecificUsers -UserList $a -DefaultStateForUser Enabled
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15. Let’s build an add-in

16. Outlook Add-in Roadmap
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Outlook Add-in Roadmap
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17. Roadmap Add-in commands Pinnable task panes Modules Win32 Online Mac
iOS
Android
UWP
Add-in commands
Pinnable task panes
Modules
Today
1-2 months
Backlog
3-6 months

18. Further reading… Getting Started with Office add-ins
Office add-in Code Samples
Office add-in Training videos & hands on labs
Office add-in Snack videos
Office add-in documentation

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