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We have Office 2010 (32 bit) locally installed into our standard Windows 7 (64 bit) desktop image. We are using App-V 4.6 to deliver our other applications. Many of these virtualised applications need to install plug-ins to Word 2010. As Word 2010 is locally installed and the application concerned (together with its Word 2010 plug-in) are virtualised, the plug-ins do not appear when Word is run. Is there a solution to this?

If you launch Word 2010 on the sequencer whilst you are sequencing an application, the relevant plug-ins DO appear in Word, but only whilst the application is being sequenced. Once the sequencer is finished, the Word plug-ins are no longer available. I guess this means that as far as the application itself is concerned, it is installing the plug-in correctly. The problem is due to the 2 different environments - local and virtual.

I imagine this must be a common problem. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Thursday, January 27, 2011 2:49 PM

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What shortcuts are you creating when you sequence your plugins? During sequencing create a shortcut for Word (call it your plugin or something like) so when you launch this shortcut, Word loads within the virtual environment thus seeing the virtual plugin.

Thursday, January 27, 2011 3:57 PM
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See these threads:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/appvgeneralsequencing/thread/5c237cb2-ceed-4070-a08a-6559603854ff

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/appvgeneralsequencing/thread/ac5dec3f-ded7-4681-8930-b2254c1b2742

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/appvgeneralsequencing/thread/52f7751e-f575-43b8-a21d-c61532d4fd58

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/appvgeneralsequencing/thread/160a0a5c-ad59-48a3-aefc-7d440033b745

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-us/appvgeneralsequencing/thread/5305E39C-15BE-42DA-A8E7-3755096E5ECA

You'll need to provide App-V shortcuts to the installed versions of Office that run those applications inside the App-V bubble for the plug-ins/add-ins. Because you are virtualising the add-ins, Office running outside the package has no knowledge of them.
This forum post is my own opinion and does not necessarily reflect the opinion or view of Microsoft, its employees, or other MVPs.

Thursday, January 27, 2011 3:59 PM

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Further to what the two guys said I just posted this on another similar thread:

There would be different ways to approach this. Typically I would browse to Word or Excel or whatever the plug-in is for and then rename the shortcut to something more descriptive like Generic Add-in or whatever. As Aaron alluded to though when you do this you unfortunately have a shortcut for every plug-in you create so things can get messy. What if a user just wants all his plug-ins to appear whenever he opens the application?

If you want that behaviour you would have to either have 1 virtual package which has all your plug-ins installed and have that browsed to you local application. That way you could have a shortcut Excel with Add-ins or whatever. Or you could use DSC, virtualize your local application be it Excel or whatever and then DSC each of your desired add-ins with it.

Monday, January 31, 2011 10:45 AM