Guided install · about 15 min

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Global administrator required SharePoint + Outlook licence

Your details

Tell us who you are

Global Administrator?

Do you have access?

Licence checker

Approve the licence app

MailConnect app

Approve integration

Deploy add-in

Roll out in Outlook

All done

Sit back and relax

Your details

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Insert your details to begin the installation

Takes about 15 minutes

Do you have access to a Global Administrator account?

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The next steps requires approval of 2 Microsoft applications in your tenant. This requires the Global Administrator role.

Not a Global Administrator?

Fill in your details above, then share the link below with your IT administrator. They can open it and complete the installation from here, no starting over.

Email my admin

Approve the licence checker

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The licence checker keeps an eye on how many Microsoft-licensed users are in your tenant, so we can warn you before you reach your limit, and MailConnect never stops working unexpectedly.

We store no licence or user data

Only the total count of licensed Microsoft 365 users in your tenant, never who they are or what they have.

Pinksky · licence verification app requests the following permissions:

LicenseAssignment.Read.All Lets the checker see which Microsoft licenses exist in your tenant.

User.Read.All Lets the checker read which users have assigned licenses.

The next Microsoft screen is branded "Pinksky": that's us. These are the apps MailConnect runs under the hood.

Approve with Microsoft Opens Microsoft sign-in.

Approve the MailConnect app

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This is the app that lets MailConnect work inside Microsoft 365. It works together with the signed-in user's own access, so MailConnect can only ever reach what that user can already reach.

Pinksky · MailConnect app requests the following permissions:

Files.ReadWrite.AppFolder Read & write files in a dedicated app folder in the user's OneDrive, used only to store that user's own MailConnect settings.

Mail.ReadWrite.Shared Read & write shared mailboxes on the user's behalf.

Sites.ReadWrite.All Read & write across the SharePoint sites the user already has access to.

profile Access the user's profile information.

User.Read Access the user's basic profile information.

The next Microsoft screen is branded "Pinksky": that's us. These are the apps MailConnect runs under the hood.

Approve with Microsoft Opens Microsoft sign-in.

Deploy the add-in

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Last step: add the MailConnect add-in to your tenant so it shows up in everyone's Outlook.

Download manifest

1 · Open the Microsoft 365 admin center

Go to the Integrated apps · add-ins page and sign in as an administrator.

2 · Upload the add-in

Click Deploy Add-in, then Next.
Choose Upload custom apps.
Select I have the manifest file (.xml) and upload the file you just downloaded.
Click Next.

3 · Who gets it?

You choose this under Assign users in the admin center.

Specific users / groupsRecommended

Available only to the users or groups you choose. Create an Entra ID security group and add the right people, easy to expand later.

Everyone

Available to every user in your tenant.

Just me

Only you, handy for a quick test before a wider rollout.

4 · Deployment method

Also set in the admin center under Deployment method.

FixedRecommended

Pushed automatically to the chosen users and pinned in their Outlook so it can't be removed by accident.

Available

Shows up in Outlook's "Get Add-ins" menu for users to add themselves.

Optional

Installed automatically, but users can remove it (tends to create more support tickets).

Click Next, then Finish to complete the rollout.

Thank you

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You're on your way!

Last step: add the MailConnect add-in to your tenant so it shows up in everyone's Outlook.

It appears within 24–72 hours

Microsoft typically takes 24–72 hours to roll a new add-in out to users in a tenant. There's nothing you need to do. It just shows up in Outlook automatically.

Your 21 days start at first use

The trial doesn't start today. It only begins when the first user opens MailConnect in Outlook, so you lose none of it waiting for the rollout.

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Something not working as it should? Or just want to double-check everything went smoothly? Don't hesitate to get in touch.