MSO.DLL not installed with "office home and small business 2013"

Question

Hello,
In my 32 bits application, I use the IInPlacePrintPreview interface on a "word.document" OLE object to show a preview of a word document.
That's work fine with Office 2013 Standard Edition (32 bits) on a Windows 7 x64 Edition, but my application crash with "office home and small business 2013" (32 bits).
I have noticed that the call to query the IInPlacePrintPreview interface on the OLE object load the mso.dll of Office into memory.
The mso.dll is installed with the Office 2013 Standard Edition, but not with the "office home and small business 2013" Edition.
I guess the problem is the lack of
mso.dll.
Do you know why the mso.dll is necessary for the preview of a word document ?
How do I install and configure mso.dll on a
"office home and small business 2013" edition ?
Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Hi,
You may try the ODT (Office Deployment Tool) to configure the Configuration.xml file and install the Office 2013 Home and Business edition.
Please refer to the following steps:
1. Downloading ODT from: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36778
2. After downloading the ODT, there will be a Configuration.xml file ODT installed folder. Modify the Configuration.xml file as below so that we can download home business package. 
<Configuration>
   <Add SourcePath="D:\Office\" OfficeClientEdition="32" >
    <Product ID="HomeBusinessRetail">
      <Language ID="en-us" />
    </Product>
  </Add>  
   <Updates Enabled="TRUE" UpdatePath="D:\Office\" /> 
   <Display Level="None" AcceptEULA="TRUE" /> 
   <Logging Path="%temp%" /> 
   <Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="1" />  
</Configuration>
For more information regarding to the ODT, you can refer to the following link:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219422(v=office.15).aspx
Should you have any questions, please feel free to let me know. many thanks!
Michael Bai
Office Client Support