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Answer 1

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My guess (since I can't access your image) is that when you install as an administrator, your installed files are not setup with permission correctly for other "normal" users.

So you probably need to set read and/or write access to *\users on your files.

Magnus Johansson 2009-10-06 14:08:15

Answer 2

+2 A:

Several things to note:

First, the command line you gave is not for installing; if the app is already installed, it will re-install. The "/qb!" option makes the "Next" and "Finish" dialogs show up. And the "ALLUSERS=1" option tells it to put shortcuts in the All Users' Start Menu (but doesn't change how it installs Registry keys--more on that in a sec.) I would recommend something like this:

msiexec /i "solution.msi" ALLUSERS=1 /qn

Secondly, your snap of the Registry shows that the app requires HKEY_CURRENT_USER entries. These, as the name suggests, are separate for each user who logs onto the machine. (This explains why if users install it themselves it works.) If you install it as the Administrator account, than that account will have the Registry entries it needs--but not necessarily any other accounts that login. Your MSI has to be specially designed to push the HKCU entries for each new user who logs on.

For tips on how to design an MSI so that it puts the HKCU Registry entries in for you, see one of the following:

ewall 2009-10-06 14:08:58

You were right, I fixed the problem by moving the registry settings to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and adding a Count key at the addin source folder location (see http://www.box.net/shared/3mzzmam4i6).The following url's were a valuable resource while finding the solution to the problemhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc136646.aspx#AutoDeployVSTOse_InstallingtheAddinforAllUsershttp://blogs.msdn.com/mshneer/archive/2007/09/04/deploying-your-vsto-add-in-to-all-users-part-i.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/mshneer/archive/2007/09/05/deploying-your-vsto-add-in-to-all-users-part-ii.aspx

armannvg 2009-10-09 15:09:05

Ah, yes. Good stuff. Thanks for sharing the links!

ewall 2009-10-09 17:22:57

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