The new Outlook for Windows

The new Outlook for Windows is now available for customers who are opted into the Office Insiders Beta Channel.

If you are a paid customer with a commercial or education mailbox as your default sender account in classic Outlook for Windows and are in Beta Channel, you will see a “Try the new Outlook” toggle in the top right corner of that Outlook for Windows app.

You can switch that toggle to try the new Outlook for Windows:

This is an early preview of the new Outlook and hence, not all functionality from the classic Outlook for Windows is available in this version yet. Currently the new Outlook is an overlay to Outlook Web Access.

There are known limitations with this version of Outlook which have been detailed here: New Outlook for Windows & Getting started with the new Outlook for Windows

Does it work with DMS?

Currently MacroView DMS is not available in this version of Outlook due to the latter's lack of support for COM/VSTO Add-ins and no future plans to do so. This means that from a third-party vendor perspective (i.e., MacroView) there is no option to integrate with it.

Does this mean the end for the classic version of Outlook?

Quite simply, No! The New Outlook for Windows is not the end of the Classic Outlook for Windows, but rather a complementary and alternative option for users who prefer a simpler and more modern email and calendar app.  

Head to this blog for more detail on why the classic version of Outlook is not going away any time soon: New Outlook for Windows – Is this the end of the Classic version? (macroview365.com)

What alternatives do MacroView provide for new Outlook?

MacroView Mail is available today and works with new Outlook, Outlook Web Access and any other device running Outlook.  It is an alternative to MacroView DMS for saving emails to SharePoint, Teams and OneDrive and also supports inserting files from SharePoint as attachments when composing or replying to emails.

MacroView Mail supports pinning the navigation pane and saving up to 100 emails at a time. Further updates are planned for Q2 2024 to provide the tree view navigation you are familiar with in MacroView DMS. 

To add MacroView Mail to your existing MacroView DMS licenses, contact our Services Team.

What's Next?

MacroView are also working on an exciting new product that will provide the familiar tree view navigation, powerful document and email search and other functionality currently available in MacroView DMS to Microsoft Teams, new Outlook and other Office applications. The first release is scheduled for Q3 2024.

To stay up to date with what is happening with this new product, you can subscribe to this article by following the instructions contained here: Set up email alerts for MacroView news and announcements

Summary

Classic Outlook will not be going anywhere anytime soon so, if MacroView DMS is critical for your work, we recommend you opt to stay with the classic Outlook for now. You can switch the toggle to go between classic and new version as often as you want, or you can use MacroView Mail in the new Outlook as an alternative for email filing. 

Also, remember to keep your eye out for the release of our exciting new products that will provide key MacroView DMS functionality to new Outlook as well as Microsoft Teams.