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Deploy VXL-Live Excel add-in

VXL Live Add-in can be deployed to users via Microsoft 365, with manual or guided options. Supports staging and production.

You can deploy the VXL Live Add-in to single users, user groups or all of your organization in various ways if done via Microsoft 365.

For alternative methods, see Alternative deployment methods

Office (Excel)

Please see the following document for Excel versions compatible with Vince Live:

Excel versions compatible with VXL Live

Access

The following administrator roles grant access to deploy the Add-in:

  • Global Admins
  • Exchange admins
  • Azure Application Admins

Additionally, you will be need the following information before deploying:

  • Your tenant URL **(provided by your Vince AS contact)
  • Add-in manifest URLs (provided further down in this guide)

Administrator deployment steps

  1. Go to https://admin.microsoft.com
  2. Open Settings > Integrated apps
  3. Click Upload custom app

  4. Select Office Add-in and enter the manifest URL:

  5. Click Validate and after successful validation, continue the guide to select which users to deploy to.

  6. Now finish the guided setup to deploy.

  7. You can now see the deployment(s) in the listing.


User setup steps (if needed)

Normally, this is done automatically but it can take a while before the add-in is deployed within your organisation.

For users to manually add the add-in in their Excel client, they can do the following.

  1. Open any Excel sheet, or create a new one

  2. On the Insert tab, click My Add-ins

  3. Go to the Admin Managed tab, and click Refresh to see all available add-ins.

  4. Select any add-in, and select Add

  5. All your add-ins are now added into Excel.

    The first time the user starts the add-in, they need to enter the tenant alias provided.

You can also run both staging and production environments side by side within the same sheet.

Alternative deployment methods

Excel versions compatible with VXL-Live Excel Add-in

Side loading VXL Live Excel Add-in

Deploy VXL Live Excel Add-in (Sharepoint Online)