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Mail & Calendar Apps Will Be Replaced with New Outlook for Windows December 2024
Teresa_Cyrus It appears that with the removal of com applications, multiple third party apps are going to break sadly. Personally we are noticing Boldon James classifier and Proofpoint's phish reporting application break.
Are there plans to eventually integrate add-ins back to the ribbon?
pantherfan69 I assume that you are a user of the desktop Outlook application? While the new Outlook can be accessed from the desktop Outlook application, I believe that it is a substitute for the Windows Mail application, and hopefully it will not be a replacement for the desktop application for at the moment, at least, it does not support any automation.
Victor_Ivanidze But not VBA and I'm too old to learn a new language and how to get it to integrate Excel, Word and Outlook in an application such as my MergeTools Add-in - https://mergetoolsaddin.com/
- Correct, the "new outlook" experience is also coming to office 365 users, so it impacts that as well. The issue that i was referring to seems to be related to the switch from com add-ins to web based add ins (as the new outlook is really an updated OWA imho).
I get why they are trying to slowly move everything to the OWA route, i predicted it 10 years ago lol, but sadly third party developers are far behind on the new add-in models, as in some cases like boldon james classifier it requires a new model for their backend architecture to support it.
For your automation issue, i expect the push will be to move that stuff to power platform, which has a lot of stuff already pre-configured for stuff like moving attachments to onedrive, etc.
