Get to Know the New harmon.ie Sidebar

New harmon.ie is a sidebar for Outlook that allows you to interact with Microsoft 365 files and locations directly from your email. This guide introduces the interface and explains how to use its features effectively.

New harmon.ie offers two main views:

  1. ALL LOCATIONS – shows a tree view of your SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive locations, favorites, recent, and shared with me.
  2. DRILL-DOWN – shows a list view of a group or a single Microsoft 365 location, including all sub-locations and files, and with document metadata.

Comparison of the harmon.ie views

Feature All Locations View Drill-down View
Purpose Browse and manage all SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive locations in one tree view Explore a specific location in detail, including files and metadata
Layout Tree view with expandable/collapsible locations Flat list of sub-locations and files within one selected location
Navigation Quick jump between multiple Microsoft 365 locations Focused navigation within a single location
Metadata Display Limited metadata (hover-based) Full document metadata is visible
Quick Actions Hover over locations or files for actions like share, favorite, save email Full action menu available for each item
Search Search across all Microsoft 365 files Search within the current location only
Best For High-level browsing and switching between locations Detailed work within a specific SharePoint, Teams, or OneDrive folder

Each view lets you: save emails and attachments, upload documents to SharePoint, Teams, or OneDrive; view and manage files; share locations and files; search across Microsoft 365; and more.

Feature comparison: All Locations vs. drill-down view

Feature All Locations View Drill-down View
Browse Microsoft 365 locations Yes – Tree view of SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Favorites, Recent. Expand (Expand icon) to view all sub-locations and 5 recent files, or collapse (Collapse icon) No – Focuses on a single location, including all sub-locations and all files
Open folder or location Yes – Double-click to open the selected location in drill-down view, or use More actions > Open (Open folder icon in harmonie) Yes – Double-click to open the selected location in drill-down view, or use More actions > Open (Open folder icon in harmonie)
Open Microsoft 365 file Yes – Double-click to open file, or use More actions > Open in browser app (Open in browser icon in harmonie) or Open in desktop app Yes – Double-click to open file, or use More actions > Open in browser app (Open in browser icon in harmonie) or Open in desktop app
View full metadata Limited – Available on hover Yes – Displayed in full list view. Tip: Pop out harmon.ie for a wider display that shows more metadata columns without scrolling.
Save email or attachments Yes – Hover and click Save email (Save email icon) or drag and drop Yes – Use New (Click to add new content) > Save email (Save email icon) or drag and drop
Upload files from desktop Yes – Drag and drop onto location or use More actions > Upload files (Upload icon) Yes – Drag and drop or use New (Click to add new content) > Upload files (Upload icon)
Create new folders/files/links Yes – Via More actions on hover > New (New icon) > Choose item type Yes – New (Click to add new content) > Choose item type
Search for files Yes – Global Microsoft 365 search Yes – Search within current location
Share files or folders Yes – Hover over item > Share (Share icon) > Copy link (Ctrl+L) (Copy link icon), Email with link (Ctrl+E) (Email with link icon), or Share to Teams (Ctrl+T) (Share to Teams icon) Yes – More actions > Share (Share icon) > Copy link (Ctrl+L) (Copy link icon), Email with link (Ctrl+E) (Email with link icon), or Share to Teams (Ctrl+T) (Share to Teams icon)
Mark/unmark as favorite Yes – Hover and click Favorite (Click to add to favorites) or Unfavorite (Click to remove from favorites) location or file from favorites Yes – More actions > Favorite (Click to add to favorites) or Unfavorite (Click to remove from favorites) location, or hover over file and click favorite or unfavorite icon
Rename / delete Yes – Via More actions > Rename (Rename icon) / Delete (Delete icon) on hover Yes – Via More actions > Rename (Rename icon) / Delete (Delete icon) on hover
Edit details Yes – Via More actions > Edit details (Edit details icon) on hover Yes – Via More actions > Edit details (Edit details icon) on hover
Select SharePoint or Email view No Yes – Advanced options (Advanced options icon) > Views (Views icon)
Sort files No Yes – Advanced options (Advanced options icon) > Sort (Sort icon)
Open in browser / Teams Yes – From More actions > Open in browser (Open in browser icon) / Open in Teams (Open in Team app icon) on hover Yes – From More actions > Open in browser (Open in browser icon) / Open in Teams (Open in Team app icon) menu
Pin/unpin sidebar Yes – Pin (Pin icon) / unpin (Unpin icon) Yes – Pin (Pin icon) / unpin (Unpin icon)
New content indicator Yes – New content or actions are indicated with a blue dot (New content indicator) Yes – New content or actions are indicated with a blue dot (New content indicator)
Open settings, manage Teams and SharePoint sites Yes – Settings (The manage icon) No
Return to All Locations Not applicable Yes – Click Home icon (Home icon)
Refresh Yes – Refresh all (Refresh icon) reloads content of expanded locations from Microsoft 365, and also syncs changes from pop-out to sidebar and vice versa Yes – Refresh (Refresh icon) from More actions reloads content from Microsoft 365
Pop-out harmon.ie Yes – Pop out (Pop-out icon in harmonie) – available in Outlook for Windows (new) and Outlook for Web No
Screenshot All locations view of harmonie Drill-down view of harmonie

All locations – Groups

harmon.ie displays all your Microsoft 365 locations in a single tree view that includes:

  • Favorites – locations and files that you use frequently can be saved as favorites for easy navigation
  • Recent – recent locations you uploaded files to using harmon.ie and recent documents you worked on with Microsoft 365 apps
  • Shared with me – files and folders that your colleagues shared with you
  • Teams – Teams locations and recent files, as well as files shared in Chats and meetings
  • SharePoint – your SharePoint locations and recent files; You may include team sites here, see How to add SharePoint sites to New harmon.ie? for more details
  • OneDrive – all locations and recent files you saved to your OneDrive

All locations view

How to switch between All locations and drill-down harmon.ie views?

double-click a location in the All locations view to open it in the location drill-down-view.

Click the Home icon (Home icon) in the drill-down view to open the All locations view.

Popped-out harmon.ie sidebar

You can pop-out or detach New harmon.ie from Outlook for Windows (new) or Outlook for Web. This allows you to:

  • Drag and drop emails and attachments to save them to Microsoft 365.
  • Browse and explore Microsoft 365 locations with all document metadata in one expanded view.

How to pop-out New harmon.ie

  1. Open New harmon.ie in Outlook for Windows (new) or Outlook for Web.
  2. Click the pop-out icon (Pop-out icon in harmonie) in the All Locations view.

Changes made in one harmon.ie window (Outlook sidebar or pop-out) don’t automatically sync to the other.

To sync changes between harmon.ie windows, click the Refresh all icon (Refresh all icon in harmonie).