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Add Outlook as an App in Teams?
Hi folks, I am quite new here but have not found yet what I seek. I want my team to use Teams as their main hub for communication and one of the things I would like is to add an app in the left b...
- Hi NerdyBen
See here
https://tomtalks.blog/2019/11/adding-outlook-email-and-calendar-app-to-microsoft-teams-a-proof-of-concept/
This was a POC done recently. Note this isn’t officially supported but you can follow and reproduce the steps.
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
Unfortunately, this wasn’t a feature announced at Ignite. The integration they announced was pulling an email into a Teams channel or pushing a Teams conversation into an email.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/What-s-New-in-Microsoft-Teams-Microsoft-Ignite-2019/ba-p/937025
It wasn’t the integration of the outlook or outlook on the web experience into Teams, making it an app, pinning it to the app bar etc. The only full app experience which was announced was Yammer.
It remains to be seen if the full Outlook experience will follow the POC. Lots of people want to see that but Microsoft haven’t committed to that.
As you can see here that is still under review
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/16925707-access-to-email-from-left-tab-panel
Best, Chris
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/What-s-New-in-Microsoft-Teams-Microsoft-Ignite-2019/ba-p/937025
It wasn’t the integration of the outlook or outlook on the web experience into Teams, making it an app, pinning it to the app bar etc. The only full app experience which was announced was Yammer.
It remains to be seen if the full Outlook experience will follow the POC. Lots of people want to see that but Microsoft haven’t committed to that.
As you can see here that is still under review
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/16925707-access-to-email-from-left-tab-panel
Best, Chris
ChrisHoardMVP I stand corrected. I thought I had seen the Outlook icon on the left-hand rail in one of the sessions.
- Haha no doubt they had probably just done that POC themselves!
Best, Chris