Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Robert Charles Ward

Murli D Satagopan

Rolando Jimenez Salgado

Yi Li

Xiao Wu

Humberto Lezama Guadarrama

Gabriel J Hall

Anandhi Somasekaran

Jay R Rathi

Erik R Ashby

Dorrene Elizabeth Brown

Edward Wu

Mauricio Ordonez

Shreedhar Thirugnanasambantham

Dmitry Pugachev

Ananda Sinha

Vineeth Madhusudanan

Thane David Peterson

Richard William Meadows

An interface mechanism is provided for developers to bundle together a set of extensions (or add-ins) to a productivity suite allowing end users and system administrators to manage their lifecycle in a unified way. Aspects such as discovery, acquisition, authorization deployment, management, updates, and similar ones may be addressed for the bundle as opposed to each of the different extensions (for example extensions for different versions of the same application such as desktop version, web application version, mobile version, etc.). Bundles may also provide a means to match specific functional sets or commercial offerings to specific user or customer profiles.

Extensibility bundles for a cloud and devices suite

Coexistence tools are described for synchronizing properties between on-premises customer locations and remote hosting services. These tools may provide methods that send the tools for installation onto on-premises infrastructure located at customer sites, execute the tools to manage the customer infrastructure remotely via a hosted service, and synchronize properties at the customer site with the hosted service. Other methods may include receiving the tools from the hosted service, communicating configuration parameters related to operating the tools, and executing the tools in response to the configuration parameters. The tools may also provide systems that include on-premises servers associated with the customer infrastructure, with the on-premises servers including on-premises coexistence components for maintaining the property at the customer site. These systems may also include administrative servers associated with the hosted service. The administrative servers may include hosted-side coexistence components for maintaining and synchronizing counterparts of the on-premises properties.

Coexistence tools for synchronizing properties between on-premises customer locations and remote hosting services

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