I have developed add in for outlook 2013.
Now i want to deploy it to client computer.
I have created setup file and in result, i got one executable file.
Now my question is, if my client have 100 employee and he wants it for all his employee,
then do he has to install it in all of his employee's computer or is there any other alternative.?
Yes, it has to be installed on all computers. An Outlook add-in is no different than any other kind of software that requires installation. Your client can use any of the numerous software deployment tools that are available to automate the distribution and installation of your solution.
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I have written a VSTO for Outlook with a formregion for meeting/appointmentitems in VS 2015.
I deploy this to our desktop computers using ClickOnce.
I would like to use the Windows Installer to install the VSTO for laptops because when I use ClickOnce and the laptop uses Outlook when not connected to the corporate network, the add-in is disabled.
I assume this is because it cannot reach the internal ClickOnce publish location, eventhough the deployment should not check for updates.
I have followed this article to create an installer for the addin.
I followed the all-users steps and the files are installed to the local computer and the registry keys are being created but the Add-in is not loaded in Outlook and it even is not showing up in the list of Addins in Outlook.
Anyone who has had similar issues and knows how to solve this problem? It's driving me crazy for the past 2 days.
There is no such central repository. Your addin most likely gets disabled on startup because of a run-time error.
We have windows application in which we distribute whole MSI package to the client in zip form. We are now up for licensing feature and we want to allow users to work in thin setup just like if you download Visual Studio to install, it will download the files from the server and install it rather than we download whole 20GB VS setup from the server.
We want to use the web-based installer in which we can manage the licensing features too.
Can anyone help or redirect to useful links? It will be a pleasure.
The solution is very simple but impossible.
I have office 2010 and office 2012 installed, VB6 fails to create a Word application object giving me no more than just a message saying that the DLL is not registered.
All attempts to remove and restore the DLL using the installer or third party DLL fails.
After removing everything office related and only installing office 2010, the application object gets created successfully. But this is not a viable solutions for our customers: we can't have them removing their Office suites for this.
Is there any other way?
I had a similar issue on my dev machine with two versions of office. Cast your eye over this article from Microsoft support they mention the /regserver command line option. The article is Office automation when multiple versions of Office are installed. By the looks of it I don't think you can force it to pick one version or the other but the /regserver will help you in your dev environment.
Our IT-department wants a script for everything that should be installed on any of our servers. They don't want to use installation wizards and click next-next-next (don't ask me why)
We need to install Office Web Apps Server to be used with our SharePoint 2013 solution.
Is it possible to install this without having to use the wizard? (with a script)
in Office Web Apps server folders, there is a folder called Files\setupsilent\ where you will find config.xml. this file contain information about silent installation of Office Web Apps Server.
call the installer like this (if your Office Web Apps server installer is extracted in c:\OWA)
setup.exe /config files\setupsilent\config.xml
this will be complete silent setup. You will not see any screens. If you like to see wizard and progress bar proceeding automatically (passive), you can change the
"Display Level="none" in this config.xml
to
Display Level="basic"
hope it helps.
I'm currently using ClickOnce to install myapp.exe. But now I've added Outlook 2007 addin support, myaddin.dll.
So, how can I install both exe and addin with ClickOnce.
I don't think you can package them together per se. That's not supported (yet). But what you CAN do is deploy them to the webserver separately, and then have the desktop application invoke the install link for the Outlook Add-In when it runs. Just do a Process.Start("iexplore.exe", "http://myapp.com/myaddin.vsto")
It might get complicated depending on which version of Office you're deploying for.
I think it can be done by adding the .exe project as a dependency of the addin project. I read a little that said that's the way it's done, but haven't tried it personally.