Native Exchange / Office 365 support

ljt · January 21, 2018, 1:39pm

My company uses Office 365 in a way that is not compatible with macOS’s implementation, so my work calendars don’t show up in Calendar.app’s list, making Agenda quite less useful to me.

Some apps, like Fantastical for Mac, have written their own native implementation of Exchange, which supports SSO and other features macOS doesn’t, thus alleviating the issue.

Is a native Exchange client something you have planned on your roadmap?
(Or does anybody know a workaround?)

Thanks!

mekentosj · January 21, 2018, 10:50pm

Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately writing your own Exchange implementation is not an easy feat, it’s not planned at the moment but obviously depends on how many users are facing the same issues. Perhaps somebody else can indeed chime in with a workaround?

ljt · January 23, 2018, 11:49am

Thanks Alexander. I’ll try and see if I can add the Exchange calendar through automated exports / sharing.

ast · February 23, 2018, 10:26pm

I’d be keen to see Exchange support as well, just to add to any numbers the Agenda team are keeping on this. I access my work’s exchange/Office 365 server using Fantastical and would love to have a way to see the respective calendar entries in Agenda.

By the way, I’m very new to Agenda, but it feels like a really nice approach to note taking.

scottcar · March 13, 2018, 3:19am

+1 for Exchange support. Would be similar support as Fantastical has in terms of being able to use the Exchange calendar in Agenda. Thank you!

umesh.lakshman · June 5, 2018, 8:30pm

+1 exchange support

vaporboy · July 9, 2018, 1:38pm

+1 on exchange support, I cannot use Agenda until that happens!

robert.long · July 17, 2018, 4:46pm

+1 for Exchange support!

privacyguard · July 28, 2018, 9:28pm

+1 for Exchange support

Untrusted99 · July 29, 2018, 3:06am

Me as well. I hate exchange, but I’d certainly appreciate being able to use Agenda with it.

Gary_Zeiss · August 14, 2018, 3:33pm

1 on exchange. Hate it. Gotta use it unfortunately.

tlarvenz · August 27, 2018, 2:30pm

+1 for Exchange. I can’t really use Agenda without it. The Exchange APIs aren’t too bad to wade through. Not simple for sure, but not insurmountable. Thank you!

bloemkool · September 5, 2018, 10:45am

Same here…Office 365 Exchange support is highly requested and required.

micha.hamann · September 29, 2018, 3:38pm

+1 for Exchange

nnewbill · October 3, 2018, 4:02pm

I have this issue and I what I have done as a work around was to setup a flow within Office 365 to sync my exchange calendar with my Google calendar. For apps that leverage the Mac accounts (like Things as well) this has worked quite well.

fritzdesir · December 29, 2018, 2:13am

+1 on Exchange support. Will unfortunately have to seek refund as it was not made clear upon Reg. Can someone at Agenda help?

mekentosj · January 4, 2019, 12:18am

I’ve sent you a message on how to request a refund.

ljt · February 22, 2019, 2:38pm

(OP here.) My company has finally allowed updating to Mojave, and I was pleased to discover that Exchange installations relying on Microsoft’s SSO feature are now supported by the OS.

My work calendars now appear in Calendar.app and in Agenda!

mekentosj · January 23, 2020, 10:05am

For those experiencing Exchange/Office265 issues, we were recently told that this might be related to MDM profiles installed by your workplace:

Dates, Events, and Reminders

My work calendars and reminder lists don’t appear in Agenda

If your Mac, iPhone or iPad is managed by your work through so-called mobile device management (MDM) profiles, it might prevent Agenda from accessing your work calendars (e.g. from Office365 or Exchange). To verify whether this is the case, go to Settings > General > Profiles to check if you have indeed an MDM profile installed and other it has the following specific restriction listed: “Opening documents from managed to unmanaged apps not allowed”. If you have an MDM profile with this restriction installed by default it will not allow sharing of your calendars with Agenda.

To resolve this, you will need to speak with your workplace’s administrator, who will be able to grant Agenda the necessary clearance it needs to access your managed calendars. Specifically, Agenda either needs to be added as a managed app in the MDM profile, which allows it to access iOS’s calendar data, or the “Opening documents from managed to unmanaged apps not allowed” restriction needs to be removed from the MDM profile.

freewizard · February 16, 2020, 7:36am

The MDM is somewhat but not the same thing. Basically iOS and OS X native client is still on an old Exchange protocol and may get disabled by certain MDM config.

Most modern apps like Outlook/WebEx/Fantasical rely on new Outlook API to access Office365, which is much easier to support than old Exchange protocol.

You may test out those new API in Microsoft Graph Explorer.