Harmon.ie is a free sidebar for Microsoft® Outlook® that eliminates the need to use e-mail attachments. The beta release transforms Microsoft Outlook into a powerful collaboration console, with full-featured access to your documents. There are two Harmon.ie sidebars; one for Google Docs, and one for SharePoint. Both allow you to locate, share, and work on your documents quickly and easily, directly from your e-mail.

Harmonie shares linked Google documents with recipients as you send them. Recipients who don’t have a Google Account are prompted to create an account to access the documents.

We’ve tested Harmon.ie for compatibility with a large array of Outlook add-ins. If you run Harmon.ie and Xobni together, you should be aware of the following limitations in Harmon.ie:

• The option to minimize the Harmon.ie sidebar is not available.
• Sending e-mail messages from Office applications, with Outlook closed, does not work.

If despite this testing, you run into issues using Harmon.ie with other add-ins, please use the forum to let us know what the issue is, and we’ll take care of it.

Yes, we support Lotus Notes integration with Microsoft SharePoint. Built for IBM Lotus customers, Harmon.ie for Lotus Notes delivers the same document-sharing, calendaring, and social experience in Lotus Notes that you get using Outlook and Harmon.ie.

Currently, we support SharePoint and Google Docs exclusively. We’ll evaluate integration with additional back-end systems, based on your feedback.

Harmon.ie is a free sidebar for Microsoft Outlook that gives you full-featured access to documents, spreadsheets, and presentations stored on Google Docs. The sidebar enables you share Google documents, from the convenience of your email. Here are the product features.
We’ll add additional features, based on your feedback.

Harmon.ie for SharePoint is a free sidebar for Microsoft^® Outlook^® that eliminates the need to use e-mail attachments. The sidebar makes it easy to find, access, and share documents using Microsoft SharePoint. Check the product features page for a list of capabilities.
We’ll add additional features, based on your feedback.

Harmon.ie is our passion and our vision. We believe e-mail and collaboration tools should work together harmoniously, regardless of whether these tools are built by competing giants – such as Microsoft and Google. Our focus is delivering an integrated end user experience that’s second to none.

Harmon.ie is designed using Web Services and open protocols to communicate with the document servers to facilitate the collaboration effort.

With the free version, everyone needs to download and install the software. It only takes a minute or two. We made the installation process so easy that the rocket scientists are not required.

We’re in the process of evaluating an enterprise version of Harmon.ie for SharePoint, which will enable your Outlook administrator to provision the software and default user settings, as well as offer e integration with enterprise systems such as Microsoft Office Communication Server and SharePoint 2010 social features. We’ll keep you posted on our progress.

Harmon.ie supports Outlook 2010 and 2007 (SP2 is recommended). You’ll also need a Google Docs account. If you don’t have one, Harmon.ie will direct you to Google’s sign-up page, where you can create an account.

Harmon.ie for SharePoint supports Outlook 2010 and 2007 (SP2 is recommended).

In addition, Harmon.ie for SharePoint supports Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS 3.0), and any cloud-based solution running any of these SharePoint versions, such as SharePoint Online.

Recipients don’t need Harmon.ie to open the links. For Google documents, the simply click the link in the message to open the document in their browser. For SharePoint document, they need to have access to the SharePoint site.

We are still waiting for Google Docs to provide programmatic access to upload all file types to Google Docs. Once this is available, we’ll include it in a future update to Harmon.ie for Google Docs.

Google Docs uses different links to the same shared document, depending on whether you are accessing it from a free Google account or a paid Google Apps account. If you send a document link to someone outside your domain, the link is automatically modified so that the recipient can open it from their email. This makes the link in your Sent Items folder work for the recipient, but not for you. You can still see and access your document from the sidebar and from Google Docs on the Web.

Yes, Harmon.ie for SharePoint provides access to all hosted SharePoint services.

The Harmon.ie discussion forums are a great way to get help if you get stuck. Our community of users and Harmon.ie development team will get you going in case you encounter a problem.

The Harmon.ie sidebar panel can be shown, hidden, or minimized. Click the X in the upper right corner of the sidebar to close the sidebar. To open the sidebar, click the Click the Harmon.ie icon in the Outlook toolbar, or select View > Harmon.ie Sidebar from the Outlook main menu. Click the Click the » to minimize the sidebar. Clicking anywhere on the minimized sidebar opens it again.

The principle of Harmon.ie is to eliminate the need for document attachments — hence our tagline, “No Attachment”. But we realize that there are cases when you want to send an attachment. Therefore, to attach a document, hold down the Alt key while dragging the document from the sidebar to a new message. If you want to use attachments as the default behavior of the drag-and-drop operations, you can change this Harmon.ie Option.

Simply start typing the document title or a string that you know exists inside the document or title. The list of available documents displays only those files that match your search term.

Yes. Harmon.ie uses the built-in search engines of Google Docs and SharePoint. You can search text inside documents, as well as document properties, such as the document owner.

No, Harmon.ie requires Internet connectivity with the document server.

Yes, please read the Harmon.ie for Google Docs help, and the Harmon.ie for SharePoint help.

The Harmon.ie discussion forums are a great way to get help if you are stuck. Our community of users and Harmon.ie development team will get you going in case of problems.

We’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions to improve the product. Just head over to the forums and let us know what you think!

Harmon.ie can access SharePoint sites using basic authentication, forms authentication, NTLM authentication and Kerberos authentication. For custom authentication methods, contact support@mainsoft.com