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OutlookTemplateAddIn

A simple Outlook AddIn that makes it easy to create custom ribbons and categories.

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This plugin allows to add files and links to your menu, without any complicated programming or configuration. Just plain and simple. To get Files to appear in your Menu, you just put them into a specific folder.

How to setup

  1. Install the AddIn
  2. Create a folder in %appdata% with the name OutlookTemplates
  3. Any folder directly below that will create a new Tab with the same name
  4. Any folder inside a Tab folder will create a category with the same name
  5. Put the files you want in your menu inside a category folder

Supported Filetypes:

.msg .oft .txt .html .lnk .url
Depending on the filetype a icon will be chosen.

Custom Icons

If you want a file to have a custom icon, just add a .png file with the same name as the original file. So if you have My Template.msg the icon needs to be named My Template.msg.png for it to appear.

Example

Folder structure

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A folder structure like this will result in two tabs named Dev and Online.
Dev will have one category called Mailcow with two clickable buttons. Those will open the default webbrowser with their containing links. The WebMail url will have a custom icon as well. Online will have two categories called Entertainment and Search Engines.

Result in Outlook

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Is it compatible with GPO?

Yes, just copy the folder structure to your users home folder and it will automatically load all the required data.
Because its in the AppData folder, it will make sure that users will have the templates available even when offline or not connected to a central storage server.

Silent Install

"C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\VSTO\10.0\VSTOInstaller.exe" /install OutlookTemplateAddIn.vsto /silent

Certificate Issues

As it's a self signed certificate, you might need to trust the certificate before installing it silently. Otherwise you might not get it installed without a popup dialog or it will exit with error code -300. Just export the certificate to a folder and trust it. After the installation you can remove it again, the AddIn will work anyways.

Trust certificate

certutil -addstore ROOT "path_to_cert"
certutil -addstore TRUSTEDPUBLISHER "path_to_cert"

Remove trusted certificate

certutil -delstore ROOT "adamite.de"
certutil -delstore TRUSTEDPUBLISHER "adamite.de"

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