Software Deployment

You will, of course, have extensively researched the best method for installing Office add-ins and hopefully discovered that the MSI uses the automation route for installation, as opposed to the brain-dead route of creating 'OPENx' entries directly in the registry.

During that research, you will have noticed that add-ins installed this way get installed per-user, i.e. in the user's profile. Thus, you will need to ensure that the relevant entries are linked to a feature with an advertised entry-point (e.g. a shortcut) and, if they're not, to re-jig the feature tree so that they are. If there are no advertised entry-points, you'll need to use ActiveSetup. Remember, though, that AS-driven installs (or at least the user profile parts) do NOT get repaired/self-healed.

Hi,

Thanks for your kind advice.Could you please breief me about active setup please as i am not so well versed in application packaging?

Kind Regards,
Yuvi.

http://itninja.com/blog/view/appdeploy:-articles:-activesetup

Active Setup

Thanks both.

....on this note, I've just updated the Excel Addin tutorial sticky here: http://itninja.com/question/faulttree-106311&mpage=1&key=יּ

Yes, you'll need active setup for each user if you dont have an advertised shortcut. The new version above also provides the *option* (not mandatory - set by a boolean) to delete the addin registry from each users profile. I've tested it in the limited time i have, but anybody is welcome to give it a go and pipe in with suggestions/bug fixes/whatever....