Add-in deployment email alerts

When you deploy Office Add-ins from the Integrated Apps page, you can now notify the assigned users about the newly deployed add-in by email. To send out the email notification, you need to consent to sending the email notification at the time of add-in deployment or user assignment updates.

As of now, email notifications can be sent for deployment of Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word add-ins. Moreover, these emails are only for add-in assignments to specific users and groups.

The following sections provide more information about what the email alert would look like for the users the add-in is deployed to.

Email sample for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word add-ins

The following are some key capabilities available to users as part of the email alert sent for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word add-in deployment.

• Email provides details about the add-in such as brief description, deployment date, and supported Microsoft 365 apps and respective versions.
• Email provides buttons to launch the add-in in the respective Microsoft 365 apps on the web, on Windows, and on Mac platforms to help make the add-in easier to discover. Note: The launch buttons are currently not supported for iPad clients.

Email sample for Outlook add-ins

The following are some key capabilities available to users as part of the email alert sent for Outlook add-in deployment.

• Email provides details about the add-in such as brief description, deployment date, supported Outlook versions.
• Email provides instructions about where to discover the deployed add-in across supported platforms: Windows, Mac, and web browser.