Set Default Add-ins for Outlook 2003 Installation

[DeanWilliams]

Hello,

Not sure if this is the right forum for this.

We are migrating from Novell Groupwise to Outlook 2003. We have over 1000 pc's to do, which are having standard images put on them.

I have created a Phone Message form as an add-in. Is there an easy way to set the default Com Add-ins for Outlook 2003? We obviously would rather have the dll selected as an Add-in automatically rather than having to manually open Outlook on each PC and select it as a COM add-in.

Any ideas for doing this automatically would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dean

 

[jimp56]

sorry if this sounds contrite, but why dont you build the images with the plugin already installed/configured within outlook? is that possible?

 

[DeanWilliams]

Thanks for replying, but we have tried, and not managed to do that. There is a default user template which when a new user logs in to the PC they get their settings copied from this profile. We have managed to get as far as having the add-in in the correct folder:

UserFolder$\Documents And Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Addins\

or whatever it is, so when a new user goes into Outlook they can see the Addin from the COM Add-in area of the options menu, but it is not selected.

We don't want users to have to do this themselves as most of them wouldn't be able to.

 

[DeanWilliams]

Think I have got it working with RegSvr32. Created a VBScript file to register the dll using wscript.shell

Thanks.

 

[DeanWilliams]

I spoke too soon. It does not work as users would need Admin rights for this script to run. Bit of an oversite by me!

I have seen scripts to automate the RunAs.exe. I cannot do this as it would mean the Admin password would be hard coded into the script.

Any other ideas?

I have doubled this thread on here as well. Sorry. Please answer here:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1082339&page=1