I need an Outlook add-in for both Desktop and Mobile and my company uses IMAP for email. But according to the official overview in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/add-ins/add-in-requirements, Outlook Add-ins is not supported for IMAP connected clients. So I've searched a little bit and found VSTO for desktop. It seems okay for now but I found out that it is only for desktop. Hence, I need a way to build an add-in for Outlook mobile which can be used by IMAP connected clients.
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So I created an outlook add-in and I am able to sideload in outlook desktop app for development,
But now I want to deploy in an organisation so they will be able to use it I followed the deployment doc of https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/publish/publish#:~:text=Outlook%20add%2Din%20deployment,Outlook%202013%20or%20later
But I am unable to get how to deploy it I am going around and round reading there documentation.
Can anyone suggest me step or tell me which site to follow for clear vision on deploying outlook add-in or which software to use for deployment. Thank you
You need to upload your add-in's manifest to the Exchange admin center, so the add-in will be available for all Exchange users. To assign add-ins to a tenant, you should use the Exchange admin center to upload a manifest, either from a file or a URL, or add an add-in from AppSource.
You may find the following video helpful - How to Deploy Office Add-ins within Your Organization.
Currently I have an outlook add-in that works great on the web version of Outlook and desktop version of Outlook on the mac. The add-in also works fine on multiple web browsers with outlook online (IE11 included). However, for certain windows users, the desktop Outlook add-in fails to work correctly. In particular, links do not work in the desktop version. Per the docs here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/concepts/browsers-used-by-office-web-add-ins if my add-in works in IE 11 web browser, it should work in the desktop app.
Can anyone provide links to help me troubleshoot the add-in on the desktop version of windows? I am at a complete loss as to why it would work in IE11 but not on the desktop version of outlook.
This add in was started with the yeoman generator if that helps.
I'm trying to develop a Windows Phone 8 app. I've created a Web Site in a Windows Azure account which is an MVC 4 project with REST endpoints. I've got an SQL database in Azure to store data from the Azure Web Site. Ocassionaly, I want my application to send PUSH notifications to mobile phones. So I've created a Mobile Service and I've linked the SQL database with the Mobile Service's database in order to have got the same data for the web page and the service.
I though that when I send an HTTP POST to the web site, the script in the database from the Azure Mobile Service would be launched but it looks not to be true. Isn't it? Because of that, I would write in the controller of an HTTP POST endpoint the code to send the data to the Mobile Service endpoint in order to launch the JavaScript code to send the Push Notification.
Is that the right approach for my goal? Is there any way for sending PUSH notifications from an Azure Web Site or it is only allowed from a Mobile Service?
My last question: Do you know any books or blogs about development in Windows Azure? On the Internet there is lots of documentation but principally those are get started tutorials. I've read some books but those are really complex, boring, and not really practical.
As your website MVC4 based and is running on Windows Azure using SQL Database as backend, I will guess that it is based on ASP.NET and i will write my suggestion based on that.
Now about your question "Is there any way for sending PUSH notifications from a Azure Web Site or it is only allowed from a Mobile Service?" I would say, Azure Mobile web services are designed for the same purpose for any service running on Windows Azure to send push notification on multiple of platforms. Application developer can choose to use Mobile Services to expedite their development as well as have multiple application using the one single service for such objective.
However as you mentioned "Is there any way for sending PUSH notifications from a Azure Web Site" this is not depend on "Azure web sites" instead it is depend on what development technology you are using with your Windows Azure Application. For example in ASP.NET your can use SignalR implementation if your application is based on Java, PHP, Python, Node,js etc then you can find some other run time specific real time implementation. If you look around for websockets you will find implementation in almost every popular language or look for comet programming on this regard. Not only that you can use some of the popular 3rd party applications for this purpose as well. i.e. pusher or any other.
While Windows Azure Mobile Services will give you the best results on Windows Azure platform as it is designed to provide such specific functionality for applications running on it.
Recently released: Azure Notification Hub
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj927170.aspx
How to integrate with OUTLOOK calendar in bidirection way?. I should send task to the outlook as well retrieve calendar task from outlook calendar?
The really short answer is to use the Web Services provided by the Exchange Server.
We built a .NET server application that hosts data (contacts, email, etc.). We'd like to sync our data to mobile devices: iPhone, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, etc.
How should we go about doing this?
Build several mobile apps, one for each platform (e.g. app for iPhone, app for Blackberry, etc.), each app syncs with our server.
License Microsoft Exchange protocol technology from Microsoft, so that our server application pretends to be an Exchange server, thus making syncing work automatically on all the different platforms (As we understand it, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, etc. all have built-in syncing capability with Microsoft Exchange).
Are there other options to consider?
Any suggestions?
One option you should definitely consider is Oracle’s mobile enterprise application platform. This is a combination of several different products such as Database Lite Mobile Server, ADF Mobile, and JDeveloper.
The mobile enterprise application platform allows you to write the code once, using JDeveloper, and create packages for multiple mobile architectures, using ADF Mobile. Database Lite Mobile Server can provision the apps out to the mobile devices. After that, you can monitor and manage the mobile devices from the mobile server management console.
Here are some links to more info:
ORACLE MEAP: http://bit.ly/fQbXUL
Database Lite Mobile Server: http://bit.ly/eJOzhN
One caveat is that the data needs to be stored in an Oracle Database on the backend. Hope that helps, good luck solving the problem.
-- Eric