Excel Add-in - How to automate installation
Automatic Approach
The best way to automate the adding of the Sharperlight Excel add-in is to call the Sharperlight Excel Add-in Intaller Application found in the installation folder in C:Program Files (x86)phiLightSharperLightinmd.InstallExcelAddin.exe
The application will create the correct Excel Add-in registry keys given that it has enough permissions to do so. If you are using Critrix you may want to call this Application when user sign-on scripts are run to ensure that the Sharperlight Add-in is present. Another appoarch would be to have a Desktop Shortcut so that the user can click the icon to have the Add-in reinstalled if for whatever reason the Add-in had disappeared or had dropped out.
Manual Approach
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Installing the Excel Add-in You can manually add the Sharperlight Excel Add-in by using Excel selecting FileOptionsAdd-InsManage and clicking the Go button and browsing for the add-in file 32bit Office C:Program FilesphiLightSharperLightinmd.XLAddin.xll 64bit Offce C:Program FilesphiLightSharperLightinmd.XLAddin64.dll It is also possible have the add-in open by setting the Windows Registry Key Installing the Excel Add-in on Citrix The link below is an example of using a batch file to auto set the user Excel registry settings to have Excel open the add-in when the user starts Excel. The batch file is run when the user logs onto Citrix. In this way the user does not have to manually add the add-in themselves in Excel. The batch file can be later removed when everyone has logged on at least once. You could take this method a step further and only run the batch for the few users that require the add-in or have the batch determine which users it creates the reg key for You need to get the office version of the reg key matched with the version on Critix, 14.0 is for Office 2010 Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice14.0ExcelOptions]
"OPEN"="/R "C:\Program Files (x86)\phiLight\SharperLight\bin\md.XLAddin.xll""
If more than one add-in is present then OPEN1 OPEN2 etc may have to be used.
http://www.network54.com/Forum/58296/thread/992552834/Issues+with+Excel+Add-In+on+Citrix
Permissions Because someone may try and add the add-in manually you can prevent them from using the Add-in in the following way The link below explains that specific users can be given access to run the Add-in by setting permissions on the add-in DLL 32bit Office C:Program FilesphiLightSharperLightinmd.XLAddin.xll 64bit Offce C:Program FilesphiLightSharperLightinmd.XLAddin64.dll http://forums.citrix.com/message.jspa?messageID=1398432 Trouble Shooting Excel creates registry keys when an add-in is added. The follow are reasons are why the add-in may disappear.
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