How To Deploy Outlook Add-ins To Your Organization

Introduction

In this article, I will show you how to deploy outlook add-ins to organizations for other users.

Once we are done with the deployment and hosting of outlook add-ins, we need to deploy add-ins.

We can deploy Outlook add-ins using Office 365 so other users of the organization can use them easily.

Prerequisites

For deploying Outlook add-ins to your organization, you must have exchanged admin rights.

Note. Outlook add-ins can take up to 24 hours to appear on app ribbons.

Steps to deploy outlook ad in the organization

Step 1. Open the Exchange Online Admin Center using the below link.

• https://admin.exchange.microsoft.com/#/

Step 2. From the left navigation, expand the organization and then select Add-ins.

Step 3. Once you click on the button, the Add-ins window will open.

Step 4. Then select and expand the (+) icon.

Step 5. From the drop-down menu select Add from file.

Step 6. Once you select Add from a file, the below popup will open, select your manifest.xml file.

Step 7. Then click on the next button.

Step 8. When a file is uploaded successfully, it will show in the app list.

Step 9. Then select apps and click on the edit icon.

Step 10. Once you click on the edit button below popup will open. Select “Make this add-in available to users in your organization” checkbox.

Step 11. Then select the Save Button and close all the tabs your deployment is done.

Step12. Open your Outlook open any mail from your inbox and click on the ellipsis, and your custom add-ins appear.

Note. It can take up to 24 hours to appear on app ribbons

Conclusion

This is how we can easily deploy outlook add-ins to other users in the organization using Office 365 and Exchange Admin.