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Microsoft Exchange integration to BitaBIZ

Let BitaBIZ do more for your employees: Activate unified communication (Synchronize employee leave & absence status to Outlook & Teams)

Esben Hedegaard avatar
Written by Esben Hedegaard
Updated over a week ago

BitaBIZ Exchange integration offers the following bennefits:

  • In the modern workplace, unified communication plays an important role. Updated and shared availability status improves productivity.

  • When leave & absence status is automatically shared via Outlook and Teams calendar employees actually register and request via BitaBIZ. Hence, more time registrations are delivered in due time and shared in the organization.

  • When employess request vacation or register a sick day, BitaBIZ can activate Out of Office e-mail auto reply. Hence, giving your company a total Out of Office management solution that automate all processes related to leave & absence into óne click from BitaBIZ.

How to set-up the unified communication integration?

When the BitaBIZ Azure app is installed and configured - your employees leave & absence status in BitaBIZ is synchronized to their Outlook and Teams calendar.

When the event is in sync with Outlook this is shown:

Exchange PLUS service: Out of Office e-mail auto reply

Let BitaBIZ do more for your employees and customers!

1. You have setup the unified communication integration
(Leave & absence status in BitaBIZ is synchronized to the employees Outlook & Teams calendar).

2. When employees request vacation or check out sick let them activate Out of Office e-mail auto reply directly from BitaBIZ.

FAQ

How to Renew the Client Secret Value for the Exchange Integration

Our Client Secret Value for the Exchange integration is about to expire or has expired and needs to be renewed.

Step-by-step guide to new client secret:

1. Open the Azure portal

2. Go to App registrations

  • Under the Manage section

  • Click App registrations

3. Find your BitaBIZ application

  • Select All applications

  • Type BitaBIZ (or the name of your BitaBIZ enterprise application) in the search field

  • Select the application from the results list

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4. Create a new Client Secret

  • Select Certificates & secrets under Manage

  • Click + New client secret

  • Enter a description, e.g. “BitaBIZ Exchange integration client secret”

  • Choose an expiration period (we recommend 24 months)

  • Click Add

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Your new Client Secret has now been created.

ℹ️ Create a reminder or change request so that you are notified well in advance before it expires.

5. Copy the Client Secret Value

  • Copy the Value field from the new client secret

  • It is important that you copy the Value — not the Secret ID

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6. Update BitaBIZ with the new Client Secret Value

  1. Log in to your BitaBIZ account

  2. Go to Setup admin → Integration → Microsoft integrations

  3. Under Microsoft Exchange integration:

    • Paste your copied Client Secret Value into the Client secret (Value) field

    • Click Save Exchange

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Your Client Secret Value has now been updated for the Exchange integration.

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