I am looking for ideas on how to make a Word Add-in work when hosted - and "manifest" managed by SharePoint / Office 365 Admin Centre.
Curiously deployment via the old management studio works for Word 365 online - under "My Organisation" tab, which has vanished from the desktop client version.
I asked on the Microsoft community, but haven't reached a workable solution, even though William Zeng has been immensely helpful, but hasn't resolved the problem, I simply cannot host under a non secure site, and I don't want to go about building a content repository, when SharePoint is an excellent tool for the purpose.
That thread is here (Edit URL corrected):
I have a successful SharePoint hosted add-in running via local file-share of the manifest, which is now used by a few hundred users (increasing daily).
But to really implement correctly I would like to host the manifest using the Office 365 management area (i.e. publish to all corporate machines which are running Office 365, and get away from the file-share model!
Office Admin Centre doesn't seem to understand - or be able to use SharePoint URLs, yet I chose SharePoint and 365 for the security of MFA and for useful, workflow managed hosting of approved content (which I serve via the add-in)
This worked for the online version of Word, but the online version of Word has performance problems, and search replace bugs, so is currently unworkable:
