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[QUOTE="Jim Black, post: 6925142"]
My problem is that I turn the MSI file over to my customers' IT people, and
then it's up to them how they use the MSI file.  I need to be able to support
all the standard ways in which they may want to install software for
non-admin users, including running with elevated privileges.    From what I
understand, the "advertised install" is a standard way to do this type of
install: the admininstrator "advertises" the Add-In to the non-admin user.
Then when the non-admin user acts on the advertisement (i.e. by launching
MS-Excel) the install is completed under that user's account, putting
everything in HKCU for that user.   The trouble is that the standard
advertised MSI file does not put the hooks into the registry that MS Office
needs to find the Add-In in the first place, so the advertise process does
not work.   To me this seems like a major oversight on the part of Visual
Studio, and I'm surprised that only you and I are struggling with it!
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--- Jim Black
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