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"Outlook for Windows: Signature cloud settings" - more detailed functionality description?
Pawel Jarosz Well, for a feature still being in development stage as per the roadmap I think that Mr Redmonds article pretty much gives you an idea about it. As for supported versions there's always "first versions supported" with more to follow.
For the record it's not only signatures
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/outlook-roaming-options-f5ed5b9b-2df8-4c2d-aed3-d90bb14e5a59?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
The roadmap
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=63037
When this will happen
- We will begin rolling this out to Microsoft 365 Monthly Channel, Targeted, in late May. (This is Insiders Slow Channel which will soon be called Microsoft Beta.)
- We expect to roll this out to the Monthly Channel, Production, in late June.
The API mentioned above (link) is actually an API into the Outlook client. A hook, to allow for the "new mail" event trigger a call for external content, in this case a signature hosted in the cloud. Technique use is Add-ins.
But the discussion here is for the Roaming signatures feature. These signatures will NOT be stored in the mailbox configuration area but rather on a completely new location, probably accessible through GRAPH API. MS intends to allow for many signatures to reflect Outlooks ability to handle several signatures, whereas OWA only supports 1 signature for both new/reply mails. I spoke to MS DEV a few days ago, and there is no news available on this.
- Great, still no sign of this much needed feature - yet they have found the time to develop an edge outlook extension that no-one has asked for.
- Well, they just released an update...July 2022, only 2 years late.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?rtc=1&searchterms=60371&filters=&searchterms=60371Well, its now practically May 2022 and its still "in development", so the Jul 2022 General Availability "prediction" looks not achievable..... pretty disappointing for what is really a pretty basic functionality. Unfortunately, this is becoming pretty usual for Microsoft, concentrate efforts on "new sexy" features and put basic functionality on the back burner. 😞
