Using SharePoint to Deploy Office Add-Ins
I’ve been asked many times how to deploy office add-ins using SharePoint. If you go searching the web you’ll find some great resources on deploying document level add-ins via SharePoint, like this great post by Microsoft MVP Craig Bailey, complete with video walkthrough. However, what about add-ins that require an installation? Hw do you publish an Outlook add-in, or a PowerPoint add-in to SharePoint so that you can point your users to the SharePoint site for the installation and updates?
I decided to dig into this a little deeper a few months back and finally have gotten around to publishing a short screencast on how to accomplish this. For this screencast I used one of my previously create projects that adds functionality to PowerPoint allowing you to email 1 or more slides from a deck to someone as my starting point. You can catch the screencast on the add-in if you are interested as well.
Check out this screencast on Channel9 today and you too can begin publishing your Microsoft Office add-ins via SharePoint!
