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Integrating Outlook into SharePoint site
- Fairly certain this isn't possible Tim. There are no Outlook webparts for instance available for SharePoint pages. Only possible solution I can think of would be a Flow that took emails to a mailbox and created them as list items, that you then displayed on a SharePoint page. But they wouldn't be 'emails', they'd just be text messges, you'd still need to open Outlook to actually do anything with them. Is there a specific reason someone at your place wants to do this?
Hi Paul,
Thanks for your response. We are currently building our company intranet on SharePoint Online since we already are using Office 365 for Outlook, etc. We are hoping to have as much as possible included in our SharePoint site so the user only need to access one place for everything. Trying to think of ideas of how to do this. We plan on linking documents, and software applications (where possible), also we are starting to integrate Microsoft Teams.
- Hey, good luck with the new Intranet. Funny enough we launched our own new Intranet yesterday, going well (so far)! We used modern pages with various embedded Yammer groups for conversations. Plus lots of links (of different types) to key content.
Obviously in 365 you will have the waffle menu (top left) with a shortcut to Outlook, but I guess you could also use a URL link to Outlook (https://outlook.office.com/owa/) and stick it behind a big shiny image link on your Intranet homepage (plus in your top level nav) so at least it is one less click away. :)
Good luck with the project!Thanks Paul! That is a good idea to make like a Quick Link or something on the Intranet homepage for Outlook. Right now just throwing around ideas for layout possibilities.
What kind of layouts did you use for your intranet?
Tim HunterWe're no design gurus so we've gone with a fairly vanilla setup (I've attached a screenshot of the top of the homepage if you are interested). We're using modern pages as the base with the standard news posts + yammer for different types of organisation news. Then we use a mix of hero webparts and quick links for different navigation elements. We have links to Forms too so people can notify us of lateness or sickness, or log support calls, that kind of thing.
We've also made our intranet a hub site and associated various other team site collections with it to make it easier for staff to move between the relevant SharePoint sites. Worth checking out if you haven't already.
None of this is rocket science from our side of things, but I've been impressed with how relatively simple it is to make a pretty good looking site. And using modern pages means that the SharePoint mobile app really starts to come into itself as an intranet in your pocket.
