How to deploy Outlook Web Addin Manifest on IIS so that users can add via their My add-ins > Custom add-ins? - outlook-web-addins

I have created an Outlook Web Add-in that runs great and all users can add it to their My add-ins > Custom add-ins from the Store icon on Outlook 365 when choosing to Add from file. However, when trying to load the same manifest from Add from URL Outlook is showing the following dialog.
I did download the validate-office-addin using npm. Here is the Validation "Passed" result:
All users who are trying to add the add-in from the URL have access to the web server and can browse the manifest file and see the XML Definition directly from a browser, such as Chrome.
Are there any steps that I am missing that should allow this to be available for adding the add-in from a URL?
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