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Community Apps Dependencies ks_office365_base
Technical Name ks_office365_contacts
License OPL-1
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Technical Name ks_office365_contacts
License OPL-1

Introduction

The Office365 Contacts Integration module enables smooth two-way synchronization of contact data between Odoo and Outlook (Office365). Users can choose whether to sync from Outlook to Odoo or from Odoo to Outlook, ensuring both systems always remain aligned. With configurable synchronization direction and deletion handling, the module ensures centralized, error-free contact management and consistent data across platforms.

Key Features

  • Two-way synchronization between Odoo contacts and Outlook contacts

  • Option to sync deletions, ensuring contacts removed in one system are also deleted in the other

  • Manual synchronization or scheduled automatic sync with cron jobs

  • Detailed synchronization logs including success, failure, and error messages

  • Ability to resume synchronization from the last processed record or reset for a full resync

  • Global contact sync feature for bulk synchronization across users

Benefits

  • Eliminates duplicate data entry between Odoo and Outlook

  • Keeps contact information accurate and always up to date

  • Enhances productivity through automated and reliable synchronization

  • Improves communication and CRM operations with consistent data

  • Enables administrators to monitor synchronization health and troubleshoot with ease

Compatibility & Technical Details

Required modules: Office365 Base Connector

Technical name: ks_office365_contacts

License: Odoo Proprietary License (OPL-1)

Installation steps:

  1. Place the module into the Odoo addons directory

  2. Enable developer mode in Odoo

  3. Update the Apps list from the Apps menu

  4. Search and install the module by its technical name

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Community Enterprise

Odoo Office 365 Contacts Connector

Ksolves Office 365 Contacts makes your life a lot simpler by enabling two way synchronization of your Odoo and Office 365 contacts. It lets you choose through simple click to sync contacts either from Odoo to Outlook or the other way round. Combined with Ksolves Office 365 Base features, it provides a way to comprehensively manage your contacts from both worlds.

Free 90 Days Support

Workflow

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Key Features

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    Ability to select which way to sync through a simple click.
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    Manageable through a single console along with other Ksolves Office 365 apps.
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    Makes use of powerful features of Office 365 Base.
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    Ability to sync only latest contacts.
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    User can sync according to their choice with the help of filters.
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    Detailed logs available for syncing operations done
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    Advanced search and filter mechanisms for logs analysis
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    Configure and restrict syncing options
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    Ability to continue the sync process where you left last time.

Setup

Authentication
arrow Visit portal.azure.com and login with your Microsoft account
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arrow Click on Microsoft Entra ID
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arrow Click on App registrations > New Registration
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arrow Now, you will be asked to enter name, redirect uri for you App. Redirect uri must be http://your-base-url/office365/callback ( this will be used for authentication ) and now click Register
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arrow Now, Go to Certificate & secret and create a new client secret. Copy the value of the Client Secret ( this will be used for authentication ).
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arrow Go to Overview and copy value of Application ID ( this will be used for authentication ).
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arrow Click on View API Permissions > Microsoft Graph > Delegated Permissions and choose required permissions and then click on Add permissions at the bottom, as shown below
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Provide ReadWrite permission for Calendar
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This is how the permissions will look like:
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arrow Once you installed the Office 365 Contact module, now go to Settings > Users & Companies > your-admin-account . In Access Rights set ‘Office365 Rights’ to ‘Office365 Manager’ and refresh the page. (Only manager has the right to authenticate the connector, other users will just sync their record)
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Access Rights must be given according to the User access. Manager level access can access Office 365 settings and authentication.
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User with office365 User can only allowed for syncing.
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arrow Go to Users & Companies > Office365 Settings and set Client ID , Client Secret and Redirect URL ( all these are already generated from the azure portal just paste them here ) and click save.
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arrow Manager level access(Odoo Admin) can access the office 365 utilities from settings as well as from the side menu.
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arrow Click on the Generate Token button as shown below -
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Users will be asked to give permission to read and write to Microsoft Calendar. Click on the Yes button in order to proceed further.
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Click on the office365 menu > Logs menu , It will display as Token generated successfully.
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Office 365 Contacts Features and Working
arrow Click on the Office 365 menu

arrow Click on Office365 Contacts tab
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arrow You will have multiple filters to sync the contacts, there will be two options to sync contacts on both sides. Firstly you have to choose the key fields to sync, it is highly recommended to choose those fields that uniquely identify each contact and should not be empty
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arrow If you wish to sync only latest contacts, then you need to input the days in order to sync those contacts
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arrow Further, if you wish to filter your contacts then you can choose a domain filter to view your results. This is only applicable from Odoo to Office 365
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arrow You have an option to sync deleted contacts from Odoo and Outlook Contacts, this will deleted any contact from Odoo if its deleted in Outlook Contacts and vice-versa
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arrow Next you can choose appropriate syncing direction
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Syncing Odoo - Outlook Contacts
arrow If you click on 'Sync Office365 contacts to Odoo', your office 365 contacts will be synced with odoo contacts, as shown below arrow
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Now, you will be redirected to the logs with details of all the contacts that are synced
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If you click on 'Sync Odoo contacts to Office365', your Odoo contacts will be synced with Office 365, as shown below arrow arrow arrow
arrow Now, you will be redirected to the logs with details of all the contacts that are synced arrow
Job Processes Working
arrow User can keep an eye of their previously successful or unsuccessful jobs by visiting Jobs menu on the top
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arrow For any unsuccessful job, you can see how many records are processed and the corresponding reasons for the failures
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arrow Syncing will resume from the last record processed, and if you want to sync all over again you can delete the entry and start syncing
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Automatic Syncing
arrow You can manually sync your contacts or you can activate cron to do syncing automatically
To activate cron follow the following steps -
Go to Settings, and then Activate the developer mode
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arrow Now go to Technical > Scheduled Actions
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arrow You will see two crons 'Run Office 365 Contact Import Cron' and 'Run Office 365 Contact Export Cron' for importing and exporting respectively.
If you wish to export Odoo Contacts to Outlook Contacts automatically, click on 'Run Office 365 Contact Export Cron'
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arrow You can activate the cron by clicking the Off button, as shown below
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arrow If you wish to import Outlook Contacts to Odoo Contacts automatically, click on 'Run Office 365 Contact Import Cron'
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You can activate the cron by clicking the Off button, as shown below
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Now syncing for all the users will be performed after the given interval

Our Releases

11th February, 2025

Latest Release 17.0.1.0.2

Fix - Fixed issues during import.

17th December, 2024

Release 17.0.1.0.1

Fix - Fixed duplicate contacts issue during import.

29th Novemeber, 2023

Release 17.0.1.0.0

Initial Release of Office Connector V17

Frequently Asked Question

Yes, our app works with Odoo Enterprise as well as Community.

Please drop email at [email protected] or raise a ticket through Odoo store itself.

Yes, we do provide free support for 90 days for any queries or any bug/issue fixing.

FREE 90 DAYS SUPPORT

Ksolves will provide FREE 90 days support for any doubt, queries, and bug fixing (excluding data recovery) or any type of issues related to this module. This is applicable from the date of purchase.

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Extensively Tested on Odoo Vanilla with Ubuntu OS

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