How to add the Officetech toolbar for Microsoft Office 365

Created by Richard Lee, Modified on Tue, 16 Sep at 4:45 PM by Richard Lee

Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/publish/publish

Step 1. Add-ins Manifest download

Download the XMLs from the zip files provided.

Application	Manifest
Word	officetech-msword-manifest.xml
Excel	officetech-msexcel-manifest.xml
Powepoint	officetech-mspowerpoint-manifest.xml

Step 2. Office 365 Centralized Deployment for Word, Excel and PowerPoint

The following instructions can be referenced via Microsoft guidelines:

Verify your organization has enabled Centralized Deployment

Steps to verify
In case your organization has not enabled the Centralized Deployment, please upgrade the plan to use.

Deploy on Admin Center

Go to Admin Center
Log-in with the user has role Global Administrator
Go to menu Setting → Integrated apps
Click at Upload custom apps

Enter the required information to upload the apps to deploy with option “Upload manifest file (xml) from device” and select the downloaded manifest files from Step 1.

In Add users step, select the option to deploy the application to Just Me, Entire organization or Specific users/groups. Click Next button to start deployment step.

Select Next to Accept permission requests to go to next page.

From Review and Finish deployment step, select Finish deployment button.

System display “Deployment completed” page when the deployment progress finishes. Click “Done” button to complete the scenario to deploy new application from MS Office Centralized Deployment.

The new add-ins will install automatically on MS Office in your organization within 24 hours.

Step 3. Install Officetech add-in in Microsoft Outlook

Please download and install the OfficeTechNow Add-in for Outlook each user profile - download link

To view deployment details: Select “View this deployment” link to see the new uploaded app displaying in integrated apps page of Microsoft 365 admin center.

To update the add-in version: The MS Office 365 admin user can select to update the version of existing applications by selecting “Update add-in” link from application details to process.