Verify that Centralized Deployment will work for your organization.To learn about preventing users from downloading from the Office store, see Manage add-ins in the admin center. To help you with Centralized Deployment, Business Central includes the Excel Add-in Centralized Deployment assisted setup. Deploy the add-in by using Centralized DeploymentĬentralized Deployment is a feature in Microsoft 365 admin center that you use to automatically install add-ins in users' Office apps, like Excel. For more information, see Setting up the Excel Add-In for Editing Business Central Data in the Developer and IT Pro help. If not, the Edit in Excel action won't be available to users. Preparation (on-premises only)īusiness Central on-premises requires that your environment is configured for the add-in. In the transition to or from Centralized Deployment, a different ID is assigned, so the earlier ID becomes blocked. This condition is caused by the fact that each Excel file gets assigned an "add-in" identifier. But they can't update the data in the file from Business Central or push updates to Business Central After the transition, users can still open any Excel worksheets previously created using the Edit in Excel action or created manually by configuring the Excel add-in. When you change from individual acquisition of the add-in to Centralized Deployment, or vice versa, Excel files that users created before the transition are affected. With this option, users will need to configure the add-in to connect to Business Central Switching from individual acquisition to Centralized Deployment or the other way around With both these deployment options, the add-in is automatically configured to connect to Business Central.A third deployment option is a manual installation of the add-in directly from Excel. The only thing users have to do is sign in to Business Central With Centralized Deployment, the first time users choose the Edit in Excel action, the add-in is automatically installed in Excel from Centralized Deployment not the Office Store. Users then sign in to Business Central using their user name and password. To install the add-in, the user chooses Trust this add-in, which in turn installs the add-in directly from the Office Store. With individual acquisition, the first time users choose the Edit in Excel action, the New Office Add-in pane opens in Excel. Centralized Deployment provides a way to get the add-in to users if your organization doesn't give users access to the Office Store.įor the end-user, the installation experience is different for the two deployment scenarios: Another option is to set up Centralized Deployment in the Microsoft 365 admin center to automatically deploy the add-in to your entire organization, groups, or specific users. With this option, users must have access to downloading files from the Office Store. One option is individual acquisition, where you let users install the add-in themselves. With Business Central online, there are a few deployment options for getting the add-in to users. The add-in works on Windows only not macOS.
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