Video Interview: Mary Lee on Deploying Multiple Office Solutions (Kathleen McGrath)

Staff — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:35:12 +0000

Mary Lee recently posted a blog entry that describes Deploying Multiple Office Solutions in a Single Installer , complete with graphics to help you visualize the process. I recently interviewed Mary to learn more about this topic, and to have her give a demonstration of some of the tasks described in this post.

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Video Interview: Mary Lee on Deploying Multiple Office Solutions (Kathleen McGrath)

Use a path that resolves anywhere your VSTO solution could be deployed (Christin Boyd)

Staff — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:29:27 +0000

One of the VSTO MVPs pointed out that in some cases his customers were unable to resolve UNC paths consistently. When he investigated further, he found that some branch offices of an enterprise were unable to resolve the UNC path ( \myservermyvstoappsinstallpath ) because of the way they setup their network infrastructure. The only workaround he could find was to use a fully qualified web URL instead of a UNC path. The resolution was to create a web server internal to the corporation which is still accessible by people in the branch office. The other option would be to negotiate with the IT staff to change the way the branch office resolves server names, but apparently that was not an option.

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Use a path that resolves anywhere your VSTO solution could be deployed (Christin Boyd)

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Video Interview: Mary Lee on Deploying Multiple Office Solutions (Kathleen McGrath)

Use a path that resolves anywhere your VSTO solution could be deployed (Christin Boyd)