Overview
Egnyte is launching the capability to setup up Multi-Domain Co-Editing on Desktop. Previously only one domain could be setup on the Microsoft Office Applications at a time. Now you are able to add multiple domains at time of setup. Once that is setup you can open from any of the domains that you have added from either the Egnyte Desktop App or the WebUI in co-editing mode and the file will automatically save back to that same domain.
Standard Enablement
Users are able to set up multi-domain co-editing by importing all associated credentials that are connected in a respective Egnyte Desktop App to their Microsoft Office application. This is accessible when the user tries and connect to Egnyte from Microsoft.
Choose Import to start the process.
More information about importing credentials can be found here.
Manual Enablement
If the end users do not have Desktop App or would like to configure their primary domain, users will still be able to manually enable multi-domain.
For this enablement, admins will need to fill out the provided form by entering your Egnyte domains to enable this feature.
Once whitelisted, users will need to re-authenticate to those domains through the Microsoft Application by signing out and signing back into Egnyte. This only needs to be done once for Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, or Word. Afterwards, select Add Manually.
After adding the first domain there will be confirmation that you are successful then you can continue adding other domains.
If you need re-setup this integration and add more domains in the future you will have to sign out of Egnyte from the Microsoft apps.
Launching Co-Editing Sessions from Different Domains
Now that the Microsoft Application has all your domains linked in the configuration you are now available to launch from those domains from either the WebUI or Desktop App to initiate a "Co-edit in Desktop" session.
The Primary Domain in Microsoft
The first domain that you sign in to will be your primary domain. That means these actions in Microsoft are only available for the primary domain. To re-setup the primary domain log out from Egnyte on the Microsoft app and sign in first with the domain that you would like to be the primary domain. The primary domain can do the following:
Traverse the Domain in Microsoft Apps and Open
Access the Recent
Save new files to in the Cloud
Desktop Applications
In order to launch a Co-editing from the Desktop App, you will have to have this version or newer of the Desktop Application. Click here install the latest version for Windows and Mac.
Limitations
- Only one device can be logged into multi-domain at a time (If you have multiple devices setup for co-editing signing into one will invalidate the token of the other device)
- Desktop App for Mac is not supported