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How Microsoft Outlook + Shipday Integrations Work. Step 1: Authenticate Microsoft Outlook + Shipday. Step 2: Pick one of the apps as a trigger, which will kick off your automation. Step 4: Select the data you want to send from one app to the other. Microsoft Outlook Integrations Connect Microsoft Outlook with your favourite apps Microsoft Outlook is an Email Service available as a part of the Microsoft Office Suite. It helps you manage work at one place & stay organized with multiple functionalities like email, calendar, task & contact management, file sharing, and note-taking.

Synchronize your Outlook email communications with Nutshell.

Do you have an Office 365 account? If so, learn more about the Nutshell for Outlook add-in here. Our standard integration for on-premises Outlook users lets you send emails from Nutshell with your company domain.

Benefits

  • Get organized: Centralize your Outlook email communications in Nutshell.
  • Work where you work: Conduct all your sales activities in the software of your choice.

What it does

Nutshell’s Outlook integration allows you to send emails from Nutshell using your company domain. Outgoing emails are automatically saved to your sent folder.

Requirements

  • Microsoft Outlook account
  • You’ll also need to know your SMTP settings to send outbound email from Nutshell

Requirements

You need a Nutshell account and a Microsoft Outlook account (starting at $5 per user, per month). You also need to know your SMTP settings to send outbound email from Nutshell.

Learn more about configuring the Outlook email integration here.

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If your organization uses Exchange Server or Exchange Online (alone or part of Microsoft 365), Business Central includes integration with Outlook that enable users to complete Business Central business tasks from their Outlook inbox.

Overview

Business Central includes the following capabilities for Outlook:

  • Contact Insights

    The add-in provides users with Business Central customer or vendor information in Outlook emails and calendar appointments. It also enables users to create and send Business Central business documents, such a sales quotes and invoices to a contact. To support these task, the add-in adds actions to the Outlook ribbon, in the Business Central group.

  • Create and view documents

    When a business document is sent as an email, the add-in provides a direct link from email to the actual business document in Business Central. The add-in adds a Document Links action in the email header, which a user can select to display the document.

Setting up the add-in involves two procedures. First, you configure the Business Central Server instance to work with the add-ins. Then, you deploy the add-ins from the Business Central client to users' Outlook. Before you begin, make sure that the deployment environment meets the prerequisites.

Prerequisites

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  1. Business Central deployment prerequisites

    1. Business Central Web Server installed and configured to use SSL (https).

    2. NavUserPassword, Azure Access Control Service (ACS), or Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication is used to authenticate users.

      The Business Central Server instance, clients, and users must be configured for NavUserPassword, Azure Access Control Service (ACS), or Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication, as determined by the credential type configured for each component. These credential types require the use of security certificates. For more information, see the following articles:

  2. Exchange prerequisites

    If you are using Exchange Server, configure it to allow access to Exchange Web Services (EWS). For more information, see Control access to EWS in Exchange.

  3. Some browser versions, such as Google Chrome 80, include changes to how cookies are handled. To ensure that the Outlook add-in works with these browser versions, make sure that the Business Central platform has been upgraded to a recommended update version as described in Preparing Dynamics NAV or Dynamics 365 Business Central for Upcoming Changes to Browser Cookie Policy.

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Configure the Business Central Server instance to work with the Office Add-ins

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You can use either the Business Central Server Administration tool or the Set-NAVServerConfiguration cmdlet in the Dynamics NAV Administration Shell.

  1. In the Business Central Server Administration tool, in the Client Services section, set the Exchange Auth. Metadata Location setting to the URL for the Exchange authentication metadata document of the authority that is allowed to sign the Exchange identity token.

    Alternatively, with the Set-NAVServerConfiguration cmdlet, set the ExchangeAuthenticationMetadataLocation key.

    This setting is used to confirm the identity of the signing authority when using Exchange authentication. In part, this includes the URL of the Exchange mail server. The field accepts a wild card URL. So for example, if the URL of the Exchange mail server is https://mail.cronus.com, then you can set this to https://mail.cronus.com*. The default value is https://outlook.office365.com/.

  2. Set the Web Client Base URL setting to the base URL of the Business Central Web client.

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This is the root portion of all URLs that are used to access pages in the web client. This must have the format https://[hostname:port]/[instance], such as such as https://MyNavWebServer:443/BC130.

With the Set-NAVServerConfiguration cmdlet, set the PublicWebBaseUrl key.

Deploy the Office Add-ins to Outlook accounts

The Outlook add-ins can be deployed by the users themselves to their own Outlook accounts. Or the Exchange administrator can deploy the add-ins to Outlook for all users in the organization or tenant.

Individual user deployment

To deploy both the Contact Insight and Document View add-ins, users run the Outlook for Business Central assisted setup in their Business Central and choose the My Mailbox option. Depending on the user authentication method used by Business Central, users will have to provide their email address and password:

  • If Business Central is configured for NavUserPassword or Access Control Service authentication, users must provide their Exchange email address and password.
  • If Business Central is configured for Azure AD authentication, users are not prompted for their email credentials because authentication against the Exchange or Exchange Online is done using an authentication token.

Organization deployment as an Exchange administrator

With an Exchange Server or Exchange Online administrator account, you can deploy the add-ins for the entire organization. There are two ways to deploy the add-ins:

  • Run the Outlook for Business Central assisted setup in Business Central and choose the My Organization option. This method deploys both the Contact Insights and Document View add-ins.
  • Use the Office Add-ins Management page. The Office Add-ins Management page lets deploy the Contact Insights and Document View add-ins individually.
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Both methods will lead you through the deployment. The information that you must provide depends on whether you are using Exchange Online (or Microsoft 365) or Exchange Server, and the user authentication method that is used by Business Central:

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  • For Exchange Online or Microsoft 365

    If Business Central is configured for NavUserPassword or Access Control Service authentication, you must provide an email address and password for an Exchange administrator account. If Business Central is configured for Azure AD authentication, you are not prompted for these credentials because authentication against the Exchange or Exchange Online is done using an authentication token.

  • For Exchange Server

    Exchange Web Services (EWS) and Autodiscover will try to find the local Exchange Server:

    • If EWS is not set up, you will receive an error message.
    • If Autodiscover cannot find the Exchange Server, you are prompted for an Exchange administrator email and password, and the local Exchange PowerShell endpoint. The Exchange PowerShell endpoint is a URI that has the format https://<ExchangeMailboxServer>/PowerShell. <ExchangeMailboxServer> is the fully qualified domain name of the Exchange Server, such as https://mail.cronus.com/PowerShell.

See Also

Deploying Business Central
Using Business Central as your Business Inbox in Outlook

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