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How to Install Excel Add-ins upon deployment
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 |
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