What switches or options can be used to uncheck JPG and PNG files from the default app association during the install process? Building an SCCM deployment and need those options unchecked as part of the install.
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I have Outlook 365 and I would like to update it manually to a specific version to check the installation of an add-in for a specific Outlook version.
Is there any place where I can download it and then install it manually? Is it possible?
I need to install manually Outlook update to version 2201 Build 16.0.14827.20198 for x64.
By default, installations of Microsoft Office are configured to automatically update your Office installation when new updates are made publicly available. Occasionally, you may have to revert to an earlier version or build of an Office installation. The same applies to updates to specific Office versions as well.
You can use the Office Deployment Tool for that. So, download and run the self-extracting executable file from the following Download Center link. This file contains the Office Deployment Tool executable (Setup.exe) and a sample configuration file (Configuration.xml):
<Configuration>
<Updates Enabled="TRUE" TargetVersion="16.0.xxxxx.yyyyy" />
</Configuration>
In the configuration XML, 16.0.xxxxx.yyyyy represents the full version number that you need to update your Office.
Open an elevated Command Prompt window. To do this, click Start, type cmd in the Start Search box, right-click cmd.exe, and then click Run as administrator. Switch to the file location for the Setup.exe and Config.xml files. Run the following command:
setup.exe /configure config.xml
Start any Office application (such as Excel), and then select File > Account.
In the Product Information section, select Update Options > Update Now. Viola!
Finally, you may find the Update history for Microsoft 365 Apps (listed by date) and How to revert to an earlier version of Office helpful.
Is it possible to get pug in project for Outlook that is depend on NuGet packages to be installed with Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Installer Projects? I’m trying to create an installation file for a plug in for Outlook that have a drag and drop functionality dependent on the Easyhook Nuget package. That the plugin have a taskPane with a webbrowser there are drop Outlook e-mail messages as .msg files.
It works to install the plug in but the drag and drop functionality that is dependent on the NuGet package doesn’t work. That I can drop the message but the webpage doesn’t recognize the drop mails as .msg files or even as uploadable files. While if I try with the trial version of InstallShield 2018 Express Edition everything works including the drag and drop functionality.
I tried to do the same thing with Installer Project as with InstallShield. To output I added content files, debug symbols and primary output. Files I added was the manifest and vsto files for the Plugin and the .dll file for the NuGet Package, Easyhook32.dll. I got an error because the content file included the 64bit for the NuGet Package files, and I’m doing a 32bit installation, and also that the Easyhook32.dll file was duplicate, that it seems that the dll file also was added with the content files.
So, I excluded the 64bit files in the plug In project that should be installed and in the installation project I removed Easyhook32.dll files from the files that should be include in the installation. Also then it worked to install the plugin but the drag and drop functionality didn’t work. I also tried to for example not add the content files and just add the Easyhook32.dll and that also made the installation work except the drag and drop functionality.
I can of course also try other installation programs that is able to add NuGet but also are able to be installed from the Internet and also add registry keys and values. That I also have tried Microsoft Click Once installations program and it was easy to create an installation files but it seems like you need a valid certification if you want users to download the installation file from the Internet.
Also, this is the first time I working with type of installation like this ones and with Outlook Add In so I can have missed some obvious solutions. That at the same time english is not my first language so I can also have missed using the correct terminology.
NuGet is a build-time package manager. You'll need to redistribute any required binaries in your installer package by adding them manually. Typically, required binaries from NuGet packages will be copied to your output folder, so you could add them from those paths just like your project output.
On Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 I would like to create a installer for a solution I created.
I created it by menu way (File > New project... > Other Project Types > Setup and Deployment > Visual Studio Installer > Setup Project), added files to their correct destinations etc., and all works fine, except for prerequisites...
The problem is that my solution depends on .Net 3.5 and I would like to install it automatically together with the installer, in some offline way - no internet downloads on installation time.
If on installer project properties I mark "create setup to install install prerequisite components" and mark "download prerequisites from the same location as my application"...
... when I try to run, it shows messages like that:
Error 7 The install location for prerequisites has not been set to 'component vendor's web site' and the file 'DotNetFX35SP1\dotNetFX20\aspnet.msp' in item '.NET Framework 3.5 SP1' can not be located on disk. See Help for more information. D:\Projetos\Eletronica\M013-Moura\HG-V6-release1\VidaCiclada-semTemperatura\VidaCiclada_Installer\VidaCiclada_Installer.vdproj VidaCiclada_Installer
Well, I put my offline installer of .Net 3.5 on the same folder EXE output of my solution is. What am I doing wrong?
Although I could not completely finished my installer package, I found the issue:
I clicked on properties panel
I clicked on the setup project
On property named "Localization", I changed the value to "English (United States)"
So I could build the project and execute the installer normally (except for SQL Server Express, that I would like to install with that package too, but although it is executed with setup, it does not create the Windows services for it...).
I.e., the issue was that my VS2010 doesn't have the files needed for the setup on my native language, "Portuguese (Brazil)", but it has for English language. The final setup will install prerequisites on English language...
How do I make .NET Setup Project install program to something other than Microsoft? I've tried modifying the Assembly Information, but that didn't do it. Is there a settings file of some kind that will force the setup project to install to a folder that I specify?
Select the deployment project in VS. Choose View → Editor → File System → Application Folder. Choose Properties. The DefaultLocation property is where the app gets installed by default.
Desktop apps should be installed to the user's Program Files folder, there is a Windows Installer property value [ProgramFilesFolder] for this.
when I build solutions in Visual Studio, that generates installer files as .exe and .msi, .exe files are useful for what?
The .EXE file that is created by the installer project is a bootstrapper for the .MSI setup file. It is used to launch the .MSI setup file.
Generally, both will launch the setup program and allow the user to install the application. However, sometimes the setup.exe file will run a custom validation routine to determine if the user's computer meets the minimum requirements for installing the software.
For example, if the user does not have Windows Installer, they will not be able to launch the .MSI file, but the .EXE application will still run and inform them that they need to install Windows Installer first. For .NET applications specifically, the .EXE file verifies the presence of the appropriate version of the .NET Framework, and if it is not present, it prompts the user to download and install it.
You can customize the prerequisites that are required for your application in your installer project using Visual Studio. See these MSDN articles for details on how to do that:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165429(v=VS.100).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7eh4aaa5(v=VS.100).aspx
Others have commented on the how (.exe bootstraps the .msi) but part of the reason why is that users know that .exe files are the things you run. I don't think your average user knows that .msi files are something that you can click on to install an application.
The .exe file is made for installing the prerequisites of your application.
Let's say your application uses the .Net 3.5 framework, you can tell the installer project to include the installation of the needed libraries if they're not already installed.
You may also deactivate it, so only the .msi is being created.
This page shows how to activate and configure the prerequisites setup, just uncheck the checkbox in order to deactivate it.
You also find more details on the process of Bootstrapping on MSDN:
the capability to automatically detect
the existence of components during
installation and install a
predetermined set of prerequisites
.exe files are useful for executing your programs that you've just built in Visual Studio, assuming you're not doing web applications.
Pretty much every Windows program out there is executed using files with an .exe suffix.
Installer exe files are normally just the msi wrapped in a bootstrapper. The bootstrapper can do anything, but normally its purpose is to ensure the user is running a sufficient version of Windows Installer, then extract the msi and invoke msiexec.exe to start installing the msi. Generating installers as exe's is deprecated these days, but some still do it.