Render Actionable Adaptive card in Outlook for recipients outside of your domain

In my last post, I mentioned how you can hide the cards and show a regular body if the rendering of the card failed or if the device did not support Actionable Adaptive cards. The rendering of Adaptive cards usually fails when you are sending emails to someone outside your domain.

In this post, I am gonna show you how you can enable Actionable Adaptive card to be able to render on the recipients outside of your domain.

Install Outlook Add-in for Debugging

First we will install an Outlook add-in that will help us debug any issues with the rendering of the Actionable Messages in Outlook. To install the add-in follow this guide from Microsoft and search for “Actionable Messages Debugger for Outlook“. This will come handy later.

Approval Process

In order to make sure your Actionable Messages render for recipients outside of your domain in the…