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Deploy ArcGIS for Office add-ins in Microsoft 365 Admin Center

Last Published: January 17, 2025

Summary

The ArcGIS for Office App Bundle is a default for all user types in ArcGIS Online (Viewer, Editor, Mobile Worker, Creator and GIS Professional). These apps are part of ArcGIS for Microsoft 365, which is intended to bring an innovative and consistent mapping experience and to deliver new insights and spatial capabilities to Microsoft apps. The ArcGIS for Microsoft 365 solution includes the add-ins: ArcGIS for Excel, ArcGIS for Power BI, ArcGIS for SharePoint, ArcGIS for Teams and ArcGIS Connectors for Power Automate.

To deploy these add-ins in an Office 365 environment, users must (1) Have access to the Office store as part of their Microsoft Centralized Deployment as described in the article: Manage add-in downloads by turning on/off the Office store across all apps - Microsoft Documentation, or alternatively, (2) The specific apps, can be deployed by their administrator through the Microsoft 365 admin center. This article describes how to deploy ArcGIS for Office add-ins in the Microsoft 365 admin center and understand their setup using the examples of ArcGIS for Excel and ArcGIS for Teams. 

Procedure

Deployment of ArcGIS for Excel in the Microsoft admin center

  1. Log in to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center and navigate to Home > Add-Ins. Select the Deploy Add-In option and search for the desired add-in. In this case, ArcGIS for Excel, and click Add.

deploying the Excel add-in

  1. Select if the add-in is to be deployed for Everyone or only for Specific users/Groups. Ensure that the Status of the add-in is toggled on. 

 selecting users or groups

  1. After clicking in Save, the add-in is deployed successfully, and the end-users can proceed to Excel for the setup. 

Deployment of ArcGIS for Teams in the Microsoft Admin Center 

  1. Log in to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center and navigate to Teams apps > Manage apps, from there, browse for ArcGIS and toggle on the Status of the app.

log in and navigate to the apps

  1. In the Permission policies tab, the administrator can select an existing team in Teams and deploy the app for that specific group. 
  2. Additionally, in the Permission policies tab, ArcGIS for Teams must be added as a third-party app and allowed Organization-wide.

setting permissions

  1. After this, the add-in is deployed successfully, and the end-users can proceed to Teams for the setup. 

Setup of ArcGIS for Excel

  1. In Excel, use the search bar and type Add-Ins.  Select Insert Add-In and in the Office Add-ins dialog box, if there are no add-ins, click Refresh.

inserting the add-in

  1. After selecting ArcGIS for Excel, follow the steps on screen (right pane of Excel), and when prompted, sign in with ArcGIS Online credentials.

signing in with Online credentials

Setup of ArcGIS for Teams 

  1. In Microsoft Teams > click the three-dot menu and search for ArcGIS.

setting up Teams

  1. Select the ArcGIS app and ArcGIS for Teams is added successfully.

Teams has been added successfully.

Article ID: 000031772

Software:
  • ArcGIS Online
  • ArcGIS for Teams
  • ArcGIS for Excel

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