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Congratulations and thank you for all the blog content!
In contrast to the documentation, where we go to find help on the next task we have, your blog is always a good place to follow on your findings of how we might have misunderstood the documentation or where really relevant information is missing or a big change is coming up. Such topics with some deeper background explanation in your blog help to spread the news more quickly and increase our knowledge how to do the right thing.
Like Kristy I would like more On-Prem content.
E.g. how will Office-Addins, especially Mail-Apps for Exchange, evolve On-Prem vs. Online. Will you invest in keeping the APIs and the authentication methods on par?
If I understood correctly, we cannot have Outlook for Android and iOS use an On-Prem Mail-App. Could that change in the future?
- Thanks! We've got some stuff about on-prem auth coming up fairly soon... so don't go too far...
Outlook for iOS and Android can connect to an on-prem Exchange mailbox, so not sure what you mean there. Can you explain?
- Thank you for answering and sorry, I was not clear enough: I would like to use Office-Add-ins (Mail-Apps, which we develop) in Outlook for Android and iOS, when those are connected to an On-Prem mailbox. The documentation of "Add-ins for Outlook Mobile" (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/add-ins/outlook-mobile-addins) states that Add-Ins can only be used when connection to O365 mailboxes. One technical reason could be that Add-ins for Outlook Mobile need to use REST and cannot use EWS, especially makeEwsRequestAsync. The documentation is from mid 2017, so maybe something changed already for later CUs of Exchange 2016 or Exchange 2019? We have mixed On-Prem and O365 customers and would like our Mail-Apps (which work fine in Outlook PC/Mac and OWA in all cases) to work in Outlook Mobile for On-Prem mailboxes as well. Would be so great!
- Ah, got it. Correct, that's O365 mailboxes only - we have no plans to add this to on-prem currently. Sorry.