{"id":352,"date":"2017-05-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officedevblogs.wpengine.com\/?p=352"},"modified":"2017-05-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T08:00:00","slug":"scale-your-office-solutions-across-customer-organizations-with-office-365-centralized-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/scale-your-office-solutions-across-customer-organizations-with-office-365-centralized-deployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Scale your Office solutions across customer organizations with Office 365 Centralized Deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-content\">\n<p>Late last year we announced the Centralized Deployment service in preview, that allows administrators to deploy Office add-ins and today we are excited to announce general availability of Centralized Deployment.<\/p>\n<p>Office add-ins help Office users to personalize their work experience and streamline data access. For developers building Office add-ins, there have been multiple options to make those add-ins available to users but until now, none have automatically deployed add-ins with minimal interaction.<\/p>\n<p>Now, using the Centralized Deployment service, IT administrators can deploy Office web add-ins to individual users, groups or an organization, directly from the Office 365 Admin Center or using PowerShell scripts.<\/p>\n<p>Users can simply open their Office applications such as Word, Excel or PowerPoint on Windows, Mac or Office Online and they will automatically see the add-in installed on their ribbon. This allows organizations large and small to easily extend Office with high-value services across all platforms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"740\" height=\"489\" alt=\"Centralized Deployment Screenshot\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2018\/05\/Centralised20Deployment20Service2.png\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Upload add-ins with Centralized Deployment in Office 365 Admin Center<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>The good news is that as a developer you need not make any changes to your Office add-ins to use Centralized Deployment. As long as you are using the same great functionality such as Add-in Commands, your users will continue to have the best experience with their deployments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Centralized Deployment offers the following functionality:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Windows, Mac and Office Online support for Word, Excel and PowerPoint<\/strong>  \n<ul>\n<li>The Add-Ins are automatically deployed on client boot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Store Add-Ins or Line of Business Add-Ins<\/strong>  \n<ul>\n<li>Add-Ins can either be acquired and assigned to users from the Office Store or a manifest can be uploaded for Line Of Business applications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Office Admin Center or PowerShell<\/strong>  \n<ul>\n<li>Use either Office 365 Admin Center or Powershell to deploy, assign and modify Add-Ins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eligibility documentation and Compatibility script<\/strong>  \n<ul>\n<li>Documentation has been provided to help organizations determine if centralized deployment will work as expected<\/li>\n<li>An Administrator can run a script to determine if their organization has the correct configuration to use Centralized Deployment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISV analytics<\/strong>  \n<ul>\n<li>Via Seller Dashboard we will soon display analytics of how many users have been assigned an Add-In per tenant ID. This can be tied into licensing recommendations for upsell, for more information <span><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.office.com\/officestore\/docs\/implement-licensing-for-add-in-services\">see here<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Several Office 365 customers are already using Centralized Deployment today. See how <a href=\"http:\/\/betterwith.office.com\/qorus-for-office-365-lets-you-instantly-connect-your-content-to-the-places-you-work-with\">Genetec Inc., solved their organizations needs<\/a> with the Qorus Office 365 add-ins, using Centralized Deployment.<\/p>\n<p><h3><strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Access the Centralized Deployment feature from Office 365 Admin Center<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Log into your Office 365 account. On the Office 365 portal, from the app launcher, select the Admin tile from the list of web apps and services.<\/li>\n<li>Once you are in the admin portal, select from the left navigation, Settings -&gt; Services &amp; add-ins, from the drop-down menu.<\/li>\n<li>In the Services &amp; add-ins page, select Upload add-in, to launch the Centralized Deployment dialog and follow instructions to upload your add-ins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"740\" height=\"644\" alt=\"Services add-in page\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2018\/05\/Services20add-in20image2.png\"><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Learn more and help enable your customers today!<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.office.com\/article\/Deploy-Office-Add-ins-in-the-Office-365-admin-center-737e8c86-be63-44d7-bf02-492fa7cd9c3f\">Centralized Deployment Admin Center documentation<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.office.com\/article\/Determine-if-Centralized-Deployment-of-add-ins-works-for-your-Office-365-organization-b4527d49-4073-4b43-8274-31b7a3166f92\">Determine if Centralized Deployment of add-ins works for your Office 365 organization<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.office.com\/docs\/add-ins\/publish\/centralized-deployment\">How to publish, developer documentation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=55267\">PowerShell documentation <\/a><\/li>\n<li>Watch the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/watch?v=p3aeO9muEI8&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Intro to Centralized Deployment video<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>\n<p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last year we announced the Centralized Deployment service in preview, that allows administrators to deploy Office add-ins and today we are excited to announce general availability of Centralized<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69076,"featured_media":353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[18,12],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-office-add-ins","tag-excel","tag-outlook"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Late last year we announced the Centralized Deployment service in preview, that allows administrators to deploy Office add-ins and today we are excited to announce general availability of Centralized<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}