Microsoft is releasing a new integration of Adobe Acrobat into Microsoft Teams to help streamline the PDF experience in the company’s collaboration app.
According to Microsoft, the new experience helps remove the friction of switching between apps for organizations that work with PDFs in Adobe Acrobat and can result in better efficiency, security and cost benefit.
The integration allows Acrobat to be set as the default app for PDFs in Teams, allowing users to stay in the work of flow by securely accessing and collaboration on PDFs directly from within the Acrobat viewer in Teams. Users will have the ability to share and review PDFs, collaborate in real time with comments and annotations, get notifications of comments and easily access PDFs that are stored in SharePoint and OneDrive.
To access the integration, IT administrators must set Acrobat as the default PDF app through the Teams admin center. Then, all PDF files from chat, channels and files will open directly in the Acrobat app within Teams.
Users don’t need an Acrobat subscription or Adobe ID to view PDF files but will need at Acrobat Standard or Pro accounts for premium features, such as exporting PDFS and converting them into other Microsoft file formats, organizing pages in PDFs, compressing PDFs, and adding password protections.
According to Microsoft, PDFs collaborated on will be sent to Adobe Document Cloud servers in the region in which the user is located for transient processing. Documents are then deleted within 24 hours and will remain encrypted both in transit and at rest during this process.
In separate blogs, both companies say they are further collaborating to make the Acrobat app easier for admins to deploy through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center.
According to Adobe, the new integration comes after it announced earlier this year new advances for Acrobat for Teams.
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