Manage Outlook Add-Ins Programatically
We publish Outlook in a Citrix XenApp environment. The installation is shared by users with different needs. One of our departments would like to make use of a vendor supplied Outlook Add-In, but that add-in is only relevant to members of that department,
and in fact will cause grief for non members as they will be prompted to log in to a system to which they have no access. I can enable or disable the add-in in question by manually going in to Outlook "Tools>Trust Center>Add-ins>Manage COM
Add-ins" by simply checking or unchecking a box. What I need to figure out is how to do this programatically by script (or possibly GPO) so that the add-in is enabled for members of the department in question and disabled for everyone else. So far I have had
no luck. I have compared the HKCU registry hive with the Add-In enabled and Disabled. There is one key that changes consistently when I do so, but changing that key programatically does not cause the add-in to become either enabled or disabled. What happens
when I check or uncheck the box? Where is that information stored? How can I manipulate it?
LoadBehavior only has an effect before Outlook is started. Changing it to 2 will set it to load on demand, to 3 is load on startup, 0 is don't show it. There are other settings but those are the important ones.
Outlook.Application.ComAddins.Item(<addinProgId>).Connect can be set to False to disconnect the addin after Outlook startup, where <addinProgId>.is the ProgID for the addin.
You can iterate the ComAddins collection to find the correct ProgId string to use in a script. The ProgId property is exposed in the Office.ComAddins.ComAddin object.
Ken Slovak
MVP - Outlook
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
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We publish Outlook in a Citrix XenApp environment. The installation is shared by users with different needs. One of our departments would like to make use of a vendor supplied Outlook Add-In, but that add-in is only relevant to members of that department, and
in fact will cause grief for non members as they will be prompted to log in to a system to which they have no access. I can enable or disable the add-in in question by manually going in to Outlook "Tools>Trust Center>Add-ins>Manage COM Add-ins"
by simply checking or unchecking a box. What I need to figure out is how to do this programatically by script (or possibly GPO) so that the add-in is enabled for members of the department in question and disabled for everyone else. So far I have had no luck.
I have compared the HKCU registry hive with the Add-In enabled and Disabled. There is one key that changes consistently when I do so, but changing that key programatically does not cause the add-in to become either enabled or disabled. What happens when I
check or uncheck the box? Where is that information stored? How can I manipulate it?
Ken Slovak MVP - Outlook
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