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Bryan Linton
We use a spreadsheet that requires the ODBC add-in. Since it isn't included
with Office 2003, I've pulled the files from Office XP and deployed the
files to the correct location on all our client computers via a script, in
preparation for Office 2003. I'm testing deployment of Office 2003 via GPO
and an MST, but I haven't found a way to install the add-in automatically.
I thought I'd identified the registry key and value that correspond to this,
but my attempts to add this registry entry via scripts or the CIW fail. I
can successfully assign Office 2003 to computers without the registry entry
and the install works fine. After installation, when I select Add-Ins..
from the Tools menu in Excel, the ODBC Add-In is listed (since the files
have already been copied to the correct location via other means), but not
selected. If I manually select it, it works fine, but I'd rather find a way
to have it installed/selected automatically so an IT staffer doesn't have to
configure each machine.
Since I've had trouble with the direct-registry-mod approach, I thought I'd
ask if there is some other way to automate the installation of an Add-In.
The only other thing I can think of is an using the Profile Wizard to
capture that setting and let the CIW add it to the MST that way. But I
don't want to capture *any* other settings but that one, and I'm not sure I
can get that granular with the Profile Wizard.
As always, thanks in advance.
Bryan
with Office 2003, I've pulled the files from Office XP and deployed the
files to the correct location on all our client computers via a script, in
preparation for Office 2003. I'm testing deployment of Office 2003 via GPO
and an MST, but I haven't found a way to install the add-in automatically.
I thought I'd identified the registry key and value that correspond to this,
but my attempts to add this registry entry via scripts or the CIW fail. I
can successfully assign Office 2003 to computers without the registry entry
and the install works fine. After installation, when I select Add-Ins..
from the Tools menu in Excel, the ODBC Add-In is listed (since the files
have already been copied to the correct location via other means), but not
selected. If I manually select it, it works fine, but I'd rather find a way
to have it installed/selected automatically so an IT staffer doesn't have to
configure each machine.
Since I've had trouble with the direct-registry-mod approach, I thought I'd
ask if there is some other way to automate the installation of an Add-In.
The only other thing I can think of is an using the Profile Wizard to
capture that setting and let the CIW add it to the MST that way. But I
don't want to capture *any* other settings but that one, and I'm not sure I
can get that granular with the Profile Wizard.
As always, thanks in advance.
Bryan