DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT FROM ADOBE SHAREPOINT INTEGRATION

This article is mainly for those End Users who are daily getting involved with PDF documents creation and looking more on to the Adobe Tool for Editing their PDF files etc. They mainly deal with conversion of Word or Excel or PowerPoint File to PDF or editing the PDF whether to submit the proposal or to share the files in PDF format within their organisation such as like Comparison Sheets, BattleCards of various products with different customers all these usually end users share in PDF format. For those users Microsoft and Adobe brought a tighter integration with O365 Services where you get the Sharepoint, Teams, OneDrive for Sharing, Communication and Collaboration respectively.

Adobe has built up their own tool named as "Adobe Document Cloud For O365" which will help in integrating this tool with O365 Services mainly to SharePoint and OneDrive.

SHAREPOINT WITH PDF FILES:

SharePoint might gave you to modify the documents based on the services provided by Microsoft O365 such as like OneNote, Word, Excel, PowerPoint Online version where you can modify the document and it will be saved automatically within SharePoint Documents just the term says Version Control as you may heard of one feature in it. But What about PDF Files?? How you gonna edit the PDF within SharePoint and save the modified PDF Document within it. That's where users are keen to understand how to overcome when it comes to PDF files.

SHAREPOINT WITH MICROSOFT FLOW FOR PDF FILES:

I might recall on to one of my article for Word to PDF conversion which I created via Microsoft Flow and it reflected to SharePoint Homepage!! But this one we did only for conversion of Word or Excel or PowerPoint to PDF. Note that we are not doing any editable thing with PDF in SharePoint using Microsoft Flow and that's where we lack as this is a traditional method to first modify the PDF document locally by taking out from SharePoint and then upload the modified one back again!

If you would like to understand on Microsoft Flow for Conversion please check it out with this article on How to Convert Word To PDF using Microsoft Flow in SharePoint

Convert Word to PDF Microsoft Logical Flow in SharePoint

SHAREPOINT ADOBE INTEGRATION

Now with the Adobe Cloud Document for O365, we can integrate this tool with SharePoint and do all sorts of editing, in-lining, highlighting within the SharePoint as we don't have to download the PDF file locally to modify. Let's check it out how to configure this Adobe Tool with Microsoft O365.

For Every third party Applications to add with Microsoft usually we go to AppSource where you get all the Apps as in the form of MarketPlace so to add the Adobe Cloud Document please visit this page: Adobe Document Cloud For O365

Adobe Document Cloud for O365 from AppSource

Just you need to click on to the Adobe Cloud for O365 as "Get it Now" and then put up your details for the same as given below:

Sign-in from your Global admin to add this App into O365 (Adobe Document Cloud PDF Experience for O365)

Fill in the details for getting this Adobe Document Cloud App

Permission requested for accessing your Global O365 Tenant

If you notice the above checkbox is for accepting these permission where you are allowing this app to use your data and it will be available for all users but no users will have permission to set any policy for this App.

Deploy as an Administrator for Adobe Document Cloud For PDF Experience

Install the File Handler for setting up the Microsoft account admin credentials

Installed File Handler taking time to revert on SharePoint and OneDrive 24-36 Hours

After installing the File Handler you need to verify the installation by clearing the cache Button to be selected and the other optional items can be done or you can even go for the final installation and then the steps will get completed.

Optional Steps to be performed for successful verification of Adobe Document Cloud (Not Mandatory)

Once you are done with all the steps it will guide you to open your Microsoft O365 Account.

SHAREPOINT TEST OUTPUT FROM O365 ACCOUNT

So here it goes with the O365 where you just open the SharePoint App then go to the Documents page where you store all the files and folders 📁 and then see the magic you will be able to modify the PDF Files with Adobe Cloud Document which appears as a separate option in SharePoint Tab.

Adobe Document Cloud For PDF files appearing in SharePoint

Opening in Adobe Document Cloud from SharePoint

If you can notice, I have edited this PDF file from Adobe Cloud Document and it works fine and if you have an Adobe ID then you can fetch for more editable options!!