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by ripley12 1036 days ago
The app store / Office admin stuff. When I was dealing with this stuff 2 years ago, it was insanely difficult to deploy a web add-in internally (something involving the "Microsoft 365 admin center"), let alone deploy it to customers (gotta get approval to deploy it in the special Office app store, and hope+pray that your customers' IT departments don't block that).

Compare to VSTO, where IIRC installation just involves editing a registry value to let Office know where your add-in can be found on disk.

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You just reminded me I tried to make an office addin a few years back and distribute it on the office store. Terrible experience trying to get Microsoft’s admin/business center (whatever it is/was called) to verify I was actually a real human/owner of the domain as a sole proprietor. Terrible.