Can't install OneNote Power Toys

[Patty MacDuffie]

Ole, perhaps you could ask your IT guys to install it for you, and let them
know what you need in order to do that. As for IE, they may have something
locked down on that as well. I would certainly consult with them on that
also.

 

[D Devlin]

What version of WebPageToOneNote did you have this
problem with? The latest (1.0.0.5) fixes an issue that is
extemely similar to the one that you have.

 

[Hanc]

That "mysterious" msi file is zipped in the exe setup file - just extract it
with winzip or something similar and point the installation process at the
extracted msi file (you might as well install from the msi file right away,
but I didnt try this).

But I agree, getting the powertoys to run can be a painstaking progress (no
problem on one system, on the other I had to reinstall outlook and do it
again).
I guess the most important thing is to make sure onenote sp1 is installed
and outlook is already set up with a working account and can send/receive
mails.
And the .net framework and programmability of course...
And for once it really DOES pay off to close ALL applications, especially
onenote and outlook or ie... when running the installation.

Getting the email function working in onenote was another lengthy process.
again, on one system it worked right away, on the other I tried a lot of
things to enable it (i had no icon in onenote). Now I am left with 3 email
icons in onenote and cant get rid of the excess two, but at least it works
now

 

[David Rasmussen [MS]]

Sorry about not responding to this sooner. I'm glad that Patty seems to have
resolved this, but I'll respond here for reference for others.

This problem is generally caused by not having the Office ".NET
Programmability" components installed before attempting to install the
PowerToys. Unfortunately, these are not installed by default with Office so
you need to go into the Office installer and add them. The general procedure
is as follows:

1. First make sure you have .NET runtime installed (this can be installed
from Windows Update)
2. Install the ".NET Programmability Components" for Office. You will need
your Office install disks around for this to work.
- go to Control Panel - Add Remove Programs and choose Office Professional
2003 and click change
- click add/or remove features
- then click "choose advanced customization of applications" checkbox
- Click next
- Click to expand "Microsoft Office Outlook" - then on the next line click
".NET Programmability Support" and choose "Run from my computer"
- Click to expand "Office Shared Features" - scroll down and click to expand
Office 2003 Web Components - then click ".NET Programmability Support" choose
"Run from my computer"

3. After doing all this, install the PowerToys. Generally this will work
fine if done in this order. If you already installed the PowerToys you will
need to fully uninstall them (uninstall from the Control Panel - Add Remove
Programs) before doing the above steps. This is less predictable though. It's
best to install the above before installing the PowerToys. These steps are
actually explained on the PowerToys download page. The order is unfortunately
very important.

Ole - unfortunately because your IT department has locked down your Office
installation you will not be able to do this because you will not be able to
install the Office ".NET Programmability Components". You will have to ask
your IT department to install these ".NET Programmability Components" before
you will be able to install these PowerToys.

For anyone who's interested, here's an explanation of why you're seeing this
problem. Outlook is designed to sort of attempt to install these ".NET
Programmability Components" on demand when it detects you're attempting to
install an add-in that needs them (if they aren't already installed).
Unfortunately, when it does this it needs to refer back to your add-in
installer to get the rest of the install process to work. It expects that
this installer is a .msi installer. However, office download site requires us
to wrap the MSI installers in an EXE to display the license requirements etc.
This then breaks this model because Outlook can't find the MSIs inside the
installer.

I'm sorry this is so painful. We're looking at ways to improve this on
demand install in future versions of Office and for now we're discussing
whether we can enable downloads of just MSIs not wrapped in .exes.

In the meantime, hopefully following these steps will solve most people's
problems.

Thanks,
David

 

[Guest]

Darron,
I was trying to install an earlier version, but
experienced the same problem after downloadong and
installing 1.0.0.5. I wonder if the problem could have
something to do with my IE installation since I receive
an IE error message saying: "Unable to import web page"
when I right-click and try the meny option
WebPageToOneNote.

Thanks for your efforts in producing the PowerToys: I'm
happily using the ImageWriter.

regards,
Ole

 

[Patty MacDuffie]

David,

Thank you very much for the explanation. It makes totaly sense to me now!

 

[Ole]

Weird: I installed IE2OneNote Powertoy which did not
function, but then WebPageToOne functions after reinstall!
Ole

 

[Nick Hill]

I got the same problem exactly on 2 pcs I installed the OneNote-Outlook power
toy. IE to Onenote worked fine.

The simple fix is to click CANCEL when it asks for the location of the MSI
file.

Regards
Nick

System Win XP Pro SP2, Outlook 2003 SP1, OneNote 2003 SP1, .Net installed &
patched. McAfee Virusscan Enterprise v8.0i, pc logged onto SBS2000.