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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
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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

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

Microsoft Office Add-Ins And Internet Explorer 11

By Nick McKenna | 6th July 2022
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As you may be aware from the global celebrations, Microsoft brought Internet Explorer 11 to the end of its life on June 15th 2022. Well, sort of. There are exceptions, and if you have an MS Office Add-In, Internet Explorer’s end-of-life is not necessarily its … more

Microsoft Office Add-Ins and WOPI Update

By Nick McKenna | 21st March 2022
Microsoft Office Add-Ins and WOPI Update

Since late last year, the Microsoft Cloud Storage Partner Program (CSPP) has officially supported Microsoft Office add-ins for WOPI. The process for getting an add-in working in WOPI is not as simple as getting an add-in working in standard MS Office, so this blog post … more

What Are Microsoft Outlook Add-Ins and How Do They Work?

By Nick McKenna | 14th March 2022
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An Outlook Add-In is a small piece of App-like software that runs inside Microsoft Outlook. An Outlook Add-In is most commonly used to provide a limited but useful set of features when a user is viewing or composing an email. Microsoft permits developers to create … more