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Actionable Messages for Emails
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Actionable Email Messages Overview
DeskDirector integrates with Microsoft's Actionable Messages, which allows a user to interact with their tickets directly in Outlook.
Configuring Actionable Email Messages
- Head to the Actionable Message developer dashboard and submit a new request to Microsoft for approval. The scope of the request should be global, unless you want to test the provider first within a smaller scope.Read more about the scopes here.
- After the provider is approved, find the provider GUID and copy it
- Head to your DeskDirector Admin Portal, then paste the GUID in the input under
Emails>Settings>Adaptive Card Provider, then update the settings:
Here is an example of what an actionable email may look like:

External Resources
Actionable messages in Outlook and Office 365 Groups
Register your service with the actionable email developer dashboard