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Save/attach from emails in MS Outlook 2016 to SharePoint site
Hi there
Appreciate this has been discussed before, but are there any updates planned to the interaction between Outlook and SharePoint?
We're rolling out SharePoint as a file store for o...
- This is now possible using the Outlook Desktop and modern browsers - take a look: https://jonasbjerke.wordpress.com/2019/09/06/you-can-now-drag-e-mails-from-outlook-directly-to-sharepoint/
There are already quite some tools in this space. See e.g. https://directory.collab365.community/office365-sharepoint/sharepoint-email-management-software/
The tools range from Outlook Add-ins (e.g. https://www.colligo.com/) to SharePoint Add-ins (e.g. https://www.slimapplications.com/product/email-manager/) to SharePoint apps (e.g. https://www.slimapplications.com/product/explorer/).
Many organisations are not aware that they can drag and drop emails and/or attachments directly to SharePoint (or OneDrive for Business) when they use Chrome or Edge. This only provides basic functionality though and they need a tool when they want to control the naming, extract email metadata, ...
Paul
One thing to note is the new ability to add a link to a SharePoint document library to your OneDrive. It appears as a link folder in OneDrive. So you can now use the Outlook/OneDrive integration for SharePoint as well.
Not suggesting this is a full answer by any means but it may be useful to some people.
Not suggesting this is a full answer by any means but it may be useful to some people.