I will follow up on this when I get to the office tomorrow. I pinged the VSTO team for guidance and I haven't heard back from them yet. I believe the answer is that the VSTO installer component that ships with VSTO runtime only performs per user installs. I'm trying to confirm this. Anyone wishing to install their solution per machine must write their own installer that does so. Remember the assemblies installed have to have caspol run on them to give them proper permissions. The VSTO installer I *think* does this for you, but your custom installer would have to do that explicitly. If you are consistently seeing an Excel crash on Win 2008 installing that KB patch, this is something I would have to direct you to MS support for so it can be raised through the proper channels (perhaps it is a known issue that I am not aware of, they would know). If you don't already have a support agreement with MS, let me know. I have a way of helping you get the issue elevated without having to pay for the support call if it is a reproducable bug.
When you say Excel doesn't boot, what precisely are the symptoms you are seeing? How are you trying to launch Excel? Have you tried any alternate methods? Are you seeing any UI at all before Excel shuts back down? If you open task manager, does the excel.exe process start when you attempt to launch it? If so, does it go away again, or does it just remaining as a running process but never show any UI? That patch should not have modified the registry or critical functionality at all, it just updates the core Office component that manages add-ins to start loading VSTO add-ins registered under HKLM. On the machines you are seeing this, do you have the add-in registered both under HKLM and HKCU, or does this repro even if you don't have a VSTO solution installed at all? Any info you can provide on specifics of machine state will help. -- Bryan ________________________________________ From: rahul.ekb...@sungard.com [rahul.ekb...@sungard.com] Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 10:01 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] VSTO excel Add in for all users Is there any solution? its really urgent. Thanks, Rahul ________________________________ From: rahul.ekb...@sungard.com [mailto:rahul.ekb...@sungard.com] Sent: Fri 5/28/2010 3:07 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] VSTO excel Add in for all users I am using Office 2007. We found problem on Windows 2008 server after installing patch KB976477 excel not starts. I also created separate installer but it not installs the add in for all user. I am going to try HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\General\EnableLocalMachineVST O = 1. Option Why the .vsto (Clickone deployment) not asks me the target dir? It directly installs in appdata\user\... Thanks, Rahul -----Original Message----- From: Bryan Reich [mailto:bryan.re...@microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 2:26 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] VSTO excel Add in for all users Which version of Office are you targeting? If it is Office 2003, it won't work. If it is Office 2007, HKLM VSTO add-ins were not supported when RTM shipped but were enabled later via an update (KB976477). Even if you have the update you have to explicitly enable HKLM registered VSTO add-ins by writing a registry key: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\General\EnableLocalMachineVST O = 1. Office 2010 supports them out-of-the-box. -- Bryan -----Original Message----- From: rahul.ekb...@sungard.com [mailto:rahul.ekb...@sungard.com] Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 11:04 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] VSTO excel Add in for all users Hi, We are facing installation problem for VSTO excel add in on Windows 2008 server The addin we are registering is available only for admin user and not for non admin user. We changed the registration key from HKCU to HKLM still the add ins are not available. Is any one faced same problem? Also when I double click on .VSTO deployment file from non admin login it installs the addin into appdata\currentuser folder due this the applicaiton installed files are not available to this addin. I tried lots of option s - Import registry key - Changed wix script from HKCU to HKLM - Used .vsto deployment file. - And many other solutions from net So please let me know how to install my excel addin for all users. Thanks, Rahul ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
