Information about Outlook

[JC Martel (JCMartell)]

Feedback similar to Merbin J Anselm (@anselm94). I would like to have information on Outlook URI scheme, but this page has been written in 2016 and hasn't been updated yet... I was able to get some information by reverse engineering the app myself, but I think this is something that should be documented by the Office team.

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• Content: Office URI Schemes
• Content Source: docs/office-uri-schemes.md
• Product: office365
• GitHub Login: office 365 dev account (@o365devx)
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[Linda Cannon (lindalu-MSFT)]

Here's a tech article than might help:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/4ec93560-c9a7-407b-83d5-77ba9736260b/trusting-custom-uri-scheme-from-outlook

[Ky (KyNorthstar)]

Linda Cannon (@lindalu-MSFT) That seems unrelated. The question you linked is about the asker wanting to use a URI scheme that they invented, somewhere in the body of the email. They likely want to do this so they can send some email about their app, and have the user click a Magic Link to open some part of their app.

This question is about URI schemes that control Microsoft Outlook, presumably for automation, just like the "Content Source" part of JC Martel (@JCMartell)'s question says. What this question is looking for would probably look something like this: ms-outlook:encrypt|u|F10A0D55-0C24-400D-93E9-6D66C9C65E86. It would request that Outlook perform some action, like opening an email, showing the Calendar, creating a task, toggling encryption on an email, etc.

[Linda Cannon (lindalu-MSFT)]

I put in a request to our writers to work with the SMEs and update the content. I was able to repro myself. This is on the backlog and we're waiting to assign resources to it.

[Ky (KyNorthstar)]

Linda Cannon (@lindalu-MSFT) any updates on this?