Re: Outlook Application Destribution Problem

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From: Michael Bauer (mib00_at_t-online.de)
Date: 11/27/04

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    Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 08:33:30 +0100

    Hi Ilan,

    two possibilities:

    1) Many users are allowed to install a normal DLL. If your project also
    needs third party components (e.g. MDAC), for which admin rights are
    necessary, then maybe you could split your project into two setups. a)
    One admin setup, which includes almost all components and b) one user
    setup, which includes the add-in dll only.

    2) Add the user account temporarily to the admins. Logon as the user,
    install the add-in and then remove the account from the admins again. 

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Viele Grüße
Michael Bauer
"Ilan Krayn" <ilanp@krayn.net> wrote in message
news:23b0893e.0411260956.284d68b7@posting.google.com...
> Hello
>
> I created an application with a toolbar in Outlook for my users. The
> application needs to run at outlook start so the toolbar will always
> be there. The application begins runs on Application_Startup().I have
> a code signing certificate from a certificate authority.
>
> I tried to distribute the code as a signed VBAProject.OTM file. It
> does not work since on other users machines the code does not run on
> outlook load.
> If the user manually opens the VBA editor, the certificate approval
> dialog is displayed, and from now on the code will run. I can not ask
> my users to do that, and could not find a way to make my code run
> automatically. I was expecting the code to run automatically and that
> the certificate approval dialog will show on outlook load, but it does
> not.
>
> I then created the application as COM add-in. My users all have
> regular user permissions to their machines - no one is an
> administrator. This means that users can not register the add-in
> themselves. Using an administrator account to register the add-in
> results in the add-in failure to load for he users.
>
> Right now I have an application but no way to distribute. How can I
> distribute an outlook application to my users?
>
> This is my first outlook application. Any help will be highly
> welcomes.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ilan Krayn
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