Distribute Decisions for Outlook, Word and PowerPoint
This guide will show what options you have and how to distribute the Decisions add-ins for Office 365
Decisions has two add-ins for Office 365, in addition to the Teams app
- Decisions Meeting Secretary: for easy creation and sharing of agendas from Outlook
- Decisions Meeting Documents Manager: for easy creation of Meeting Minutes and Meeting Books from Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
Distribution options
- Centralized deployment For most organizations, we recommend you distribute the add-ins on behalf of your users. This allows for an easier roll-out and onboarding. You can also use centralized deployment for a subset of your users with "security groups"
- Opt-in Users can also download these themselves following the links above or adding the apps from "Get Add-ins" in Word or Outlook
Using Office 365 centralized deployment to distribute the add-ins
- Open the Office 365 Admin Center
- Click Settings > Select Integrated Apps > Select Get Apps
- Search for Decisions
- Select the Decisions app for Teams and click Get it now
- In the "Integrated apps" sidepanel for Decisions select Configuration
- Select Deploy to distribute the Word and Outlook add-ins
- Click Accept Permissions for both add-ins
- Click Deploy
Distribute add-ins to a subset of users
- In the "Integrated apps" sidepanel for Decisions select Users
- Choose Specific users/groups
- Find and add the groups you have configured for Decisions users
- Click Update
Note The Decisions Office add-ins are modern web-based add-ins that run in their own sandbox inside of Outlook and Word, hence there is a risk of conflicts with other add-ins you may already have. Please refer to the Microsoft documentation for details on the security model.
More Information
- Distributing Decisions for Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft's documentation on Privacy and Security for Office Add-ins
- Does centralized deployment work for my organization?
- Microsoft's in-depth guide on Office 365 centralized deployment