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WOPI, Microsoft Office Add-Ins And AI

By Nick McKenna | 20th November 2024
WOPI, Microsoft Office Add-Ins And AI

WOPI, MICROSOFT OFFICE ADD-INS AND AI This is our first video about integrating your web application with Microsoft WOPI, Microsoft Add-Ins and Artificial Intelligence. If you want to learn more about these technologies an there integration, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us today!

Developing Custom Microsoft Outlook Add-Ins to Integrate with CRM Systems

By Nick McKenna | 14th October 2024
Hands on laptop keyboard working on developing custom Outlook add-ins

Ready to boost your productivity and streamline your workflow with a CRM Outlook add-in? Efficiency and integration between tools are more important than ever. If you’re looking to improve your own business results, you may be interested in learning about custom Microsoft Outlook add-ins and … more

Enhancing Legal Software Development with Custom Word Add-Ins

By Nick McKenna | 3rd October 2024
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Are you leveraging the benefits of Word add-ins? As a legal professional, you’ll often rely on Microsoft Word for drafting, reviewing, and finalising documents, but custom Word add-ins can significantly transform this process. The standard features of Word may not always meet the specific needs … more

Building an MS Outlook Add-In: Part Three –  Testing and Approval

By Nick McKenna | 20th December 2023
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Once your add-in is ready to go, you need to know how to handle any errors, test for reliable performance and prepare for deployment.  This is the third of a three-part series where we’re aiming to be able to save an email (as an EML … more

Building an MS Outlook Add-In: Part Two – Building an Add-In with the Microsoft Graph API

By Nick McKenna | 13th December 2023
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Welcome back to part two of our series, where we’re aiming to be able to save an email (as an EML file) from a user’s inbox into a CRM system (or any other system for that matter!) via an Outlook add-in. This is the second … more

Enhancing CRM Integration: Building an MS Outlook Add-In with the Microsoft Graph API

By Nick McKenna | 6th December 2023

In these articles, I will focus on integrating an Outlook add-in with a CRM system using the Graph API. The task we are aiming to complete is being able to save an email (as an EML file) from a user’s inbox into a CRM system … more

Integrate WOPI with your Microsoft Cloud Storage Partner Program

By Nick McKenna | 28th November 2023
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Implementing WOPI with the Cloud Storage Partner Program may seem daunting at first. One of the key mistakes we see being made is a failure to prepare adequately before commencing programming. A WOPI integration with your system will likely be very different from any other … more

What Is WOPI? Exploring Web Application Open Platform Interface

By Nick McKenna | 14th July 2023
Overhead view of two men working on laptops.

In today’s interconnected world, seamless collaboration and document sharing are vital for productivity and efficiency in the workplace. One powerful solution that has revolutionised the way we work with office documents is the Web Application Open Platform Interface protocol, otherwise known as WOPI. WOPI integration … more

CSPP WOPI Login Update

By Nick McKenna | 20th February 2023
An open padlock on a gate.

Last year, Microsoft announced that they were removing the login box from the “business flow” for Cloud Storage Partner Program (CSPP) WOPI. Over the course of a few weeks, the login box slowly disappeared from all the test and production WOPI nodes, and now it … more

Add-Ins and CSPP WOPI Changes

By Nick McKenna | 27th January 2023
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In December 2022, many WOPI implementors around the world who were also using Microsoft Add-Ins in their WOPI implementation suddenly started experiencing errors, and their Add-Ins would not load. Over the course of a couple of weeks, it transpired that a security update had occurred … more