Excel Add-In with Terminal Services

Hello Everyone<BR><BR>Does anyone have any experience using the Excel Add-In with a terminal services session (remote desktop)? Local box administrators have no issues but when a non admin user starts MS Excel, they get a VBA runtime error (essexcln.xll not found) Closing that window and attempting to install the add-in via Tools >> Add-Ins >> and browsing to the essexcln.xll file returns the error "essexcln.xll is not a valid add-in"<BR><BR>Seems to be a rights issue but the users have full rights to the folder where the add-in is located (Hyperion\AS\bin\) .<BR><BR>Thanks in advance for any tips.

Check the file permissions on c:\winnt\system32\msvcr71.dll. This needs to be 'Read/Execute' for 'everyone'. The add-in installation only gives permissions to the User who is installing the add-in. Which causes problems when other users need to access the Add-in. (Similar problem on Citrix / TS). <BR><BR>James Archer

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