+1 for exchange
+1 for office 365
+1 for Office 365. I have not found any workaround that is acceptable to our company enterprise security team (e.g., calendar syncing).
+1
This is definitely a must. Please consider the following use case:
I freelance and I use my own equipment for work. Connecting my device to an Exchange server gives control to that Exchange server admin over my device. I don’t want that.
Instead, I want to be able to connect Agenda to an Exchange server via in-app sign-in to see my calendar’s events and avoid the above scenario.
Indeed, apps like Fantastical allow one to connect to Exchange, and other services, not exposing the device identifier and not giving an admin control over a private device (from my understanding).
When I think of it, the current settings of Agenda are a bit counterproductive. See, Agenda primarily uses iCloud, while Dropbox (I think) is an option.
Many users like myself use either iCloud or another cloud storage, not necessarily Dropbox, which for me personally is a big NO considering they’ve been mishandling user data in the past.
Most work devices only use Exchange, not iCloud (at least I haven’t encountered a single environment where iCloud would be used for business). Therefore, syncing notes is only possible via iCloud (in such cases). This means that if you want to sync your notes you must use iCloud and ideally involve a private device.
Now, if you want to connect your device, you must be okay with the fact that an admin can control your (private) device remotely. That, in my view, is not acceptable. Agenda doesn’t enable me to sign in to Exchange without potentially compromising my device.
I hope you can see where the two concepts clash and just don’t work well together. Adding Exchange sign-in could remedy that partially at least. Adding OneDrive next to Dropbox and iCloud could solve the problem of syncing notes via OneDrive and enable business cloud syncing, and that’s the most common case since most businesses still use Microsoft.
On a personal note, I would appreciate if many more FSPs were added. I don’t trust Apple with my data, but I don’t really have that much choice with Agenda.
Are you able just to connect the Calendar app of Apple to exchange? If you can do that, Agenda can see the events. We have deliberately integrated with Apple’s calendar store, because it is available to all apps in the system. If another app is using it, it too will work with Agenda.
We’ll take on board the request for Microsoft sync. The problem is really that everyone has their own preference here. We get requests for Google Drive and Amazon Drive too. Before you know it, you have to support every service out there. (Most apps I know of don’t bother with more than iCloud.)
We’ll see what we can do. Thanks for the feedback!
I am able to connect the way you described, but that also presents the risk I mentioned. Connecting to an org this way gives them access to my device. It’s also written in system settings as a warning just before connecting the device to an Exchange server and allowing system-wide access to company resources.
I understand it’s all about prioritisation. Please consider though, that MS is really possibly the most widely used solution for companies. I think I’m correct to say Google Workspace falls just behind, but I’m not sure as I haven’t done research in this regard. Speaking from experience, most companies use MS 365 as it’s called nowadays, they get the full suite and don’t need anything else, which is why enabling the connection to Exchange makes sense.
We’ll keep it all in mind. We would like to add more services, but there are so, so many.
We will also be adding e2e encryption via iCloud soon. The other services would presumably not be encrypted, which would be a bit of downer.
It is true that MS is probably most popular at the workplace, but so is Windows 
So maybe there isn’t as much to gain there as it seems for an “Apple app shop”.
We’ll see what we can do…
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