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Microsoft integration capabilities
Nextcloud Enterprise is designed to integrate well in Microsoft environments, with file storage, user directory, Outlook, Sharepoint, Windows Desktop, MS Office online server and Teams integrations available.
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Secure File Sharing by email
The Sendent Outlook Add-in enables Nextcloud customers to easily and securely send files, folders or upload links to others from within Microsoft Outlook.
The Add-in can replace attachments, automatically uploading files to Nextcloud and insert a secure link in the email. It also makes it easy for users to provide others with a secure file upload link.
Sendent Outlook Add-in
The Sendent Outlook Add-in turns email attachments into Nextcloud links, manually or automatically. It can insert upload links where the recipient of the email can upload files to. Users can add passwords and expiration dates, the admin can enforce these settings if needed.
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Free for home users
Nextcloud strives to provide private cloud solution for everyone so we worked with our partner to provide a free version of the Secure Outlook Add-in. Note that the free version is only meant for home users and small organizations and lacks many of the features of the enterprise version.
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Mozilla Thunderbird
Users of Mozilla Thunderbird will be delighted to hear that there is a Thunderbird Filelink Addon!
This Thunderbird extension makes it easy to send large attachments with Thunderbird by automatically uploading them first to a Nextcloud server and by then inserting the link into the body of your email.
Thunderbird Filelink Addon
Microsoft integration capabilities
Nextcloud Enterprise is designed to integrate well in Microsoft environments, with file storage, user directory, Outlook, Sharepoint, Windows Desktop, MS Office online server and Teams integrations available.
Any storage technology you need
Some of the storage technologies supported in Nextcloud include NFS and local storage as well as scalable, multi-bucket capable object storage like S3 and SWIFT compatible and CIFS/Windows Shares. Nextcloud can also seamlessly access files on (s)FTP, SharePoint systems and more.
- Automated or manual provisioning
- Multi-factor authentication
- Single-sign-on
- Machine learning based suspicious login detection
- sync files with the desktop (virtual drive)
- share with other users & public links
- Instant notifications & server activity view
- end-to-end encryption & remote wipe
- Word Online
- Excel Online
- PowerPoint Online
- OneNote Online
- Collaborative editing supported
Automatically upload files to replace large attachments or integrate Calendars and Contacts in Microsoft Outlook.
Nextcloud features integration with external user directories like LDAP, Active Directory or others as well as built-in account management, two-factor authentication and Single-sign-on support.
Nextcloud Enterprise offers optional integration with Microsoft Teams, providing file sharing and more. Contact sales to learn more!
The Nextcloud desktop client keeps photos and documents always up to date, enabling you to work like you always did.
With the release of the Office Online Integration app, enterprises can use a self-hosted Microsoft Office Online Server to view and edit documents from within Nextcloud. This enables companies to operate an Office environment on a private, secure server with a familiar user interface and full compatibility with Microsoft Office formats.
Sendent Outlook Add-in
Automatically upload files to replace large attachments
or integrate Calendars and Contacts in Microsoft Outlook
The Sendent Outlook Add-in turns email attachments into Nextcloud links, manually or automatically. It can insert upload links where the recipient of the email can upload files to. Users can add passwords and expiration dates, the admin can enforce these settings if needed.
New users can enjoy the user-friendly setup dialog to get going, and the Upload Files / Share Public Folder option is directly available in the ‘message’ tab.
The Add-in can be configured to automatically upload all attachments the user added to an email starting from a configurable size, for example, all files over 200kb.
Users can also use the easy file selection dialog to insert links to files on their Nextcloud storage.
Secure data and lower costs
The Sendent Outlook Add-in takes away the IT headache caused by risky attachments.
Storing and sharing files securely through Nextcloud ensures company policies on data availability, retention and safety can be enforced. This enables system administrators for example to make sure attachments are run through the virus scanner, certain file types are protected from being shared outside the company or that retention policies are followed.
Another significant advantage for IT departments is the savings in storage space for email servers. The add-in negates the need for storing large amounts of attachments in multiple email boxes and decreases network traffic.
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Key benefits
Keep inbox growth under control
Sent files of any size
Easily share file upload links
Protect the content and attachments of mails with Secure Mail
Use File Access Control to limit access by unauthorized users
Use Workflow to automatically remove attachments after a set time
Secure Mail
The Secure Mail feature protects the content as well as attachments from emails. It uploads the email body and can automatically create guest accounts for recipients. With account protections like 2-factor authentication, brute-force protection and suspicious login detection, this provides the level of security that banks, notaries or hospitals need to exchange confidential information with their clients or patients.
The add-in works with Microsoft Outlook 2010, 2013, 2016 and 365 for Windows.
Other features:
- Users can pick files from the local desktop or from the Nextcloud server
- Activity tracker notifies sender about file uploads/downloads
- App follows server policy enforcement options
- App features customizable upload path
- Domain whitelisting
- Multi Language support
- Branding
- Server app for configuration
Uploading files
Setting a password
Configuration in the Nextcloud app
Free for home users
Nextcloud strives to provide private cloud solution for everyone so we worked with our partner to provide a free version of the Secure Outlook Add-in. Note that the free version is only meant for home users and small organizations and lacks many of the features of the enterprise version.
The free Secure Outlook Add-in features the core capabilities: sharing from your Nextcloud instance instead of sending insecure large attachments, with an optional expiration date. Branding is limited and some other features for enterprise usage are not included.
Feature highlight
Secure Mail
Email as it will be sent to recipient
Recipient view in Secure Mail in Nextcloud
The Sendent Outlook Add-in includes a secure mailbox feature. This feature protects the contents (body) of email from interception by providing the recipient with a notification that a new email was received. The recipient then has to log in on their (guest) account to access the email and its attachments.
The body of the email is shown with the file attachments. Each email is a folder, linked to in the email notification.
In the screenshots below, the user sends the link and password to the recipient by email. The user can take out the password and send it through another channel. Alternatively, when a guest account is set up for the recipient, the Outlook add-in will detect this and instead share the message to the guest account and include an internal link in the email. The recipient will have to log into their guest account to access the email.
Version comparison
There are four versions of the Outlook Add-in: Free, Basic, Professional and Premium.
| Free | Basic | Professional | Premium | |
| Upload large files to your Nextcloud server | ||||
| Pausing uploads | ||||
| Set expiration date | ||||
| Automatically upload attachments | ||||
| Shared link custom password | ||||
| Enterprise deployment capabilities | ||||
| Activity tracker | ||||
| Nextcloud app for central configuration | ||||
| Custom look for shared links via HTML | ||||
| Secure mail (Create and send message through guest account) |
Sync Calendars and Contacts
with Microsoft Outlook
With the Outlook CalDav Synchronizer, Outlook users can easily sync their events, tasks and contacts between Microsoft Outlook and their Nextcloud server.
Full Outlook synchronization
The CalDAV and CardDAV plugin offers two-way sync for CalDAV calendars and tasks, CardDAV contacts and can also handle the Google native Contacts and Tasks API.
The plugin handles Outlook categories, mapping CalDAV server colors to Outlook category colors and syncing calendars and tasks to the categories. The plugin also handles timezones and recurring events with exceptions and can deal with Outlook custom properties.
Features
The Outlook CalDav Synchronizer supports:
SSL/TLS, also with self-signed certificates and proxy
Auto discovery of calendars and address books
Configurable sync time range filter
Time-triggered-sync and sync changes from Outlook immediately
And it can use server settings from an Outlook IMAP/POP3 account profile.
Teams integration
Nextcloud Enterprise offers optional integration with Microsoft Teams,
providing file sharing and more. Contact sales to learn more!
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Pricing for the Sendent Outlook Add-in starts at €6,48/user/year
with discounts for larger user numbers.
