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KanBo Installation
- Creating a Linux Based Virtual Machine on Azure for Elastic Search
- Creating a Windows Virtual Machine on Azure for Elastic Search
- Creating and Updating the Elastic Cloud Deployment
- How to Create a X.509 High-Trust Certificate
- Installing and Configuring Elastic Search on Debian
- Installing and Configuring Elastic Search on Windows
- KanBo Installation on Office 365 and Azure
- KanBo Installation On-Premise SharePoint 2013/2016/2019
- KanBo Modern Webpart Installation
- KanBo On-Premises Installation Requirements and Prerequisites
- KanBo Setup
- Uninstall KanBo from Office 365
- KanBo Installation on Office 365 and Azure (KanBo Installer)
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KanBo Updates
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Additional Components
- Configuring Power Automate with Your KanBo
- Enabling Email a Card Message
- Installation of KanBo MyBoard Synchronization with Outlook Calendar and Outlook Tasks
- Installation of the Autodesk BIM Plugin for KanBo
- KanBo and Microsoft Power Automate Integration: Activation
- KanBo and Microsoft Power Automate integration: Installation
- KanBo and UiPath Integration: Configuration
- KanBo API for Developers
- KanBo External User Groups (Active Directory Integration)
- KanBo Mini Application Installation
- KanBo Outlook Add-in Installation (O365 & On-Premise)
- Nintex Integration Installation
- Plugin for Adding Users to KanBo / Sharepoint When They First Enter it
- Send Email to KanBo - Installation (Cloud)
- Send Email to KanBo - Installation (On-Premise)
- Setting Up KanBo Email Notifications (On-Premise)
- Setting Up KanBo Email Notifications on Azure
- SharePoint Profiles Synchronization
- SharePoint Site Collection Balancing and Admin Warnings
- Sync Targets
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Tips & Tricks
- Configure How Documents Should Be Opened from KanBo
- Customize KanBo Background Images and KanBo Colors
- Define Board Features to Be Enabled or Disabled by Default
- Disable Sleeping Tabs in Browsers
- Disable/Enable Public Boards Creation
- Find Out the Certificate Expiration Dates On-Premise
- Get KanBo ID
- How to Change the Help URL in Your KanBo
- Import Users to KanBo
- Renew Certificate for KanBo Graph Installation
- Show KanBo Version
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Troubleshooting
Setting Up KanBo Email Notifications (On-Premise)
Following article describes configuration of KanBo email notifications. Only unread notifications are sent by email. Each user can tun it on or off individually and specify sending intervals. Contact us at support@kanboapp.com to receive most recent KanBo installation package.
Prerequisites
- Having a Virtual Machine on which you can deploy the Email Notifications component.
- Having a special service account with Exchange or Exchange Online license to use it for sending emails.
- Connectivity to KanBo Database (server firewall should be unlocked for the Virtual Machine address).
1. Prepare the Email Notifications package
Unzip the KanBo.EmailNotifications (it can be called also KanBo.ConsoleJobHostRunner.zip) to desired location. The location can be for example a folder named “Email Notifications”. In our case it is: C:\inetpub\Email Notifications.

2. Update KanBo.ConsoleJobHostRunner.exe.config file with your parameters
For detailed information about configuration follow attached readme.txt file.
- Copy the connection string from the KanBo web.config and put them to the KanBo.ConsoleJobHostRunner.exe.config into <connectionStrings> section.
<connectionStrings> <add name="KanBoContentConnectionString" connectionString="Data Source=Server,1433;Database=KanBoContentName;User ID=UserID;Password=UserPassword;MultipleActiveResultSets=True" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /> </connectionStrings>

- Configure the plugins section. In the first part, you can configure:
<job.email-notifications name="mail" link="{https://Your KanBo Address.domain}" title="myname" template="template.html" limit="100" repeat="10s"> <sender email="{sender@YOURDOMAIN.COM}" type="SmtpClient"> <smtpclient deliverymethod="Network" username="{sender@YOURDOMAIN.COM}" password="{PASSWORD}" enablessl="True" host="{mail.YOUR_DOMAIN.COM}" port="587" pickupdirectorylocation="{YourKanBoDirectory}" /> </sender> </job.email-notifications>
Sometimes relative paths does not work on certain environments. You can try to provide full path to the Email Notifications package instead of ".".
<plugin alias="plugin-loader.directory" path="." />
- Configure the second part of plugins section.
a) With SSL
Change the following values:
- https://YourKanBoAddress - to your KanBo Address
- YourTitle - choose a title, i.e.:KanBo
- sender@YOURDOMAIN.com in sender email and username - the email account to send emails from
- Password to password this email account password
- mail.YOUR_DOMAIN.COM in Host to your email hosting address. In case of Office 365 installation, it can be smtp.office365.com.
- Your KanBo path in Your KanBo Directory value
<job.email-notifications name="mail" link="{https://Your KanBo Address.domain}" title="myname" template="template.html" limit="100" repeat="10s"> <sender email="{sender@YOURDOMAIN.COM}" type="SmtpClient"> <smtpclient deliverymethod="Network" username="{sender@YOURDOMAIN.COM}" password="{PASSWORD}" enablessl="True" host="{mail.YOUR_DOMAIN.COM}" port="587" pickupdirectorylocation="{YourKanBoDirectory}"></smtpclient> </sender> </job.email-notifications>

b) Without SSL
<job.email-notifications name="mail" link="{https://Your KanBo Address.domain}" title="myname" template="template.html" limit="100" repeat="10s"> <sender email="{sender@YOURDOMAIN.COM}" type="SmtpClient"> <smtpclient deliverymethod="Network" username="{sender@YOURDOMAIN.COM}" password="{PASSWORD}" host="{mail.YOUR_DOMAIN.COM}" port="587" pickupdirectorylocation="{YourKanBoDirectory}"></smtpclient> </sender> </job.email-notifications>
3. Create a Task in the Task Scheduler (On-Premise)
Here is the simple example how to add KanBo Notification Task to the Windows Task Scheduler. Full manual for Windows Scheduled Tasks you can find in the Microsoft web site: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766428.aspx
- Execute Task Scheduler. Type a name and select user with proper privileges to execute task. We recommnd also to select "Run with highest priviledges".

- If connection string to the KanBo database is Integrated Security=true, please be sure that typed user has read/write permissions to the KanBo database. Select Triggers tab and create a new trigger and use the following configuration:
- Begin the task - On a Schedule
- Settings: Daily
- Advanced settings: Repeat task every 15 minutes for a duration of Indefinitely
- Stop task if it runs longer than 30 minutes
- Select "Enabled"

- Select Actions tab and add new action pointing to the KanBo.ConsoleJobHostRunner.exe file within the folder where you unpacked the MailNotificationWebJob.zip file.
- After this action is completed, select "OK" and confirm your administrator credentials.
- Enter your email notifications package location in the Start In (optional) field.
Example: C:\inetpub\Email Notifications\KanBo.EmailNotifications

- Enable Email notifications in KanBo web.config.
- Open KanBo web.config and find “<add key="KanBoEmailNotifications" value="true" />” and ensure value is set to true and save the web.config.
- After that clear your browser cache.

4. Recommendation: Set an Outlook retention policy to remove old messages
In order to not allow your Email Notifications mailbox to clog up, set a simple rule to clean messages older than a week.
- As Exchange Administrator, got to Exchange Admin Center -> Compliance Management -> Retention Tags. Create a new rule "applied automatically to a default folder.

- Find out a name, select this tag to apply to Sent items only and choose retention period to 7 days.

- Go to retention policies and create a new Retention policy with this retention tag assigned.

- Go to recipients, select your Email Notifications account and then in Mailbox features select your newly created Retention Policy.

Troubleshooting
"Something bad happened with AddtoGroup" error in email notifications.
It means that these notifications are very old and not compatible with the new version of Kanbo your organization now has and, since the email notifications has been enabled recently, these old notifications are being sent to people which haven't entered KanBo before. There is a solution to fix it:
- Please open the Content Database of KanBo in SQL Manager.
- Then please execute the following script on this database:
UPDATE NotificationUsers SET WasMailed = 1
It will resen all MailNotification Counters to 0 and you should not be getting any errors with the email notifications.
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