Excel Add-In for ALL users in a Citrix Xenapp 6.0 Environment
We are using Citrix Xenapp 6.0 on Windows Server 2008 R2 to publish Excel to our Citrix users. We also have a 3rd party Excel Add-In by Event 1 named "Office Connector". I installed this under my user account (which is part of the Domain Admin) and everything worked fine.
I then logged in as a regular user and the add-in was not present. I was able to manually add it by opening up Excel-->Options-->Add-ins-
Is there a way to add this add-in to ALL excel users globally without having to manually add it per user? Any help and advice is greatly appreciated!
I then logged in as a regular user and the add-in was not present. I was able to manually add it by opening up Excel-->Options-->Add-ins-
Is there a way to add this add-in to ALL excel users globally without having to manually add it per user? Any help and advice is greatly appreciated!
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That's how i originally installed it. It did not add the add-in to all Excel users though.
This is an Office issue more than a Citrix issue, however you could create a Group Policy Preference that sets the Add-in to "load" in the registry. Take a look at this MSDN article: that describes the LoadBehavior entry for each Add-in in the registry in that specific applications registry hive: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386106.aspx#LoadBehavior
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Thanks jmarti80. This worked for me
copying the add-in to this folder also worked for me
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\XLSTART\
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\XLSTART\
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None of the answers above helped. I did happen to find a solution though. In case anyone else comes across this and needs the solution here it is:
Excel has an XLStart folder which will automatically start an application if it is located inside the folder. In my case I copied the .xla add-in file to the XLSTART folder located here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14
After copying it over the add-in appeared for ALL users that log into Citrix
Excel has an XLStart folder which will automatically start an application if it is located inside the folder. In my case I copied the .xla add-in file to the XLSTART folder located here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14
After copying it over the add-in appeared for ALL users that log into Citrix
Put the Server in install mode by running "change user /install"
Add the Add-on
Put the server in execute mode by running "change user /execute"
After this the Add-on should be available to all users.