Oulook Add-in deployment

[aric_wallner]

Hey folks, I'm looking for the best way to get an outlook add-in deployed/installed on all our macs. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 

[jpeters21]

unfortunately when talking packaging and application deployments you really have to try the different methods till you find what works for your scenario.. even more so for an un-named add-in. Couple of my common options below

If  .pkg you could just upload it and make a smart group for computers with outlook.app (just to ensure that installs before the add-in).

You could use a snapshot in composer to roll the outlook and add-in installation into a single deployment package. 

certain installations with references outside of installation package you are copying a whole folder into the client's tmp folder and then using a script to run the installation from there 

[sdagley]

@aric_wallner You might want to check out this KB article from Microsoft regarding changes in support for injection based Outlook plugins if you have haven't already seen it: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/outlook-for-mac-planned-update-for-injection-based-plugin...

[Tribruin · Accepted solution]

If you are using O365, then you can handle this through the Exchange admin console. It is much easier than trying to deploy via a package. 

[aric_wallner]

Thats what I figured we would have to do. I just like to try to keep as much in Jamf as I can. Thanks!