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Update absence status to your Microsoft Exchange / Outlook calendar.

Ulrik Baadsgaard Christensen avatar
Written by Ulrik Baadsgaard Christensen
Updated over 4 months ago

Update absence status to your Microsoft Exchange / Outlook calendar.

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To setup the Exchange integration, our BitaBIZ Azure enterprise application needs to be added to your Azure Active Directory. If it is not allready installed follow this guide

Configure Exchange integration in the BitaBIZ enterprise application

1. In the Azure portal, on the left navigation panel, click Azure Active Directory icon

2. Select App registrations from the Manage section.

3. Do the follwing steps:

  1. Select All applications,

  2. In the search box, type BitaBIZ (or the name of your BitaBIZ enterprise application)

  3. select the application from result panel.

4. Select API permissions from the Manage section and click the + Add a permission button.

5. Select Microsoft APIs and then click Microsoft Graph.

6. Do the following steps:

  1. Click Application permissions,

  2. In the search box, type Calendars,

  3. Select Calendars.ReadWrite

  4. Click Add permissions

7. click the + Add a permission button again.

8. Select Microsoft APIs and then click Microsoft Graph.

9. Do the following steps:

  1. Click Application permissions

  2. In the search box, type MailboxSettings

  3. Select MailboxSettings.ReadWrite

  4. Click Add permission

10. Select Grant admin consent for bitabiz and click Yes.

💁 The 2 API permissions have now been configured!

11. Add new Client secret:

  1. Select Certificate & secrets from the Manage section

  2. Click the + New client secret button

  3. Type a description for the new client secret ie. "BitaBIZ Exchange integration client secret"

  4. Select the expiring period for the client secret
    ​💁 We recommend that an expiration period of 24 months is chosen.

  5. click Add

💁 The client secret has now been created!

12. Copy the Value text string from the newly created Client secret, which needs to be inserted into your BitaBIZ account later.

13. Do the following steps:

  1. Select Overview

  2. copy the Application (client) ID

  3. copy the Directory (tenant) ID

Application (client) ID and Directory (tenant) ID needs to be inserted into your BitaBIZ account later.

Log in to your BitaBIZ account

Click: Setup admin -> Integration -> Microsoft integrations.

Under the section "Microsoft Exchange Integration".

click on the link: "Access Modern Exchange authentication settings"

To configure the Exchange integration in BitaBIZ, perform the following steps:

  1. Copy and paste Application (client) ID into Client Id

  2. Copy and paste Directory (tenant) ID into TenantId

  3. Copy and paste Client secret Value into Client secret

  4. Activate the Exchange integration by turning button to ON

  5. Click Save Exchange

💁 The integration is now ACTIVE. Test the integration by registering a sick day. The sick leave event will within a maximum of 4 minuts be synchronized and updated to your Outlook calendar.

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