topic Re: Office Integration Plugin fails without adminstrator rights in Alfresco Archive

Office Integration Plugin fails without adminstrator rights

nicof — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:50:23 GMT

Hello everyone,I am currently evaluating Alfcresco for the use in our organisation. One of the main reasons making it attractive is the great MS Office integration. This is, where I am still facing problems.1. The plugin only works with administrative rights.After having installed the plugins with t

Re: Office Integration Plugin fails without adminstrator rights

mikeh — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:43:51 GMT

Hi

Which version of Alfresco are you using?

Also which O/S (client) do you have.

finally, which version of Office are you using?

The Excel opening in MSIE is a problem with v2.1 Community when using WebDAV. You can either upgrade the server to v2.9B (or nightly) or use CIFS to access the files instead.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Office Integration Plugin fails without adminstrator rights

nicof — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:47:50 GMT

Hi Mike,

thank you for your answer, sorry for not providing all needed information.

I use Alfresco 2.1 Enterprise (Trial) on CentOS 5.1. The client uses Windows XP (Pro), Office 2003 and version 2.9 of the Office Plugins.

How can I make the plugin use CIFS? Just leave the WebDAB-field blank?

Kind regards

Nico

Re: Office Integration Plugin fails without adminstrator rights

mikeh — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:23:25 GMT

How can I make the plugin use CIFS? Just leave the WebDAB-field blank?

If you populate the CIFS field, the add-ins will try to use CIFS over WebDAV. The WebDAV fields needs to be populated (although the client doesn't actively enforce this at the moment).

I'm not sure why the add-in isn't appearing for the normal user. You could try reinstalling for just that user now that the system-wide components have been installed (the ones that actually need admin privs).

We are about to release 2.1.2E which should contain the WebDAV fixes for Excel (and PowerPoint).

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Office Integration Plugin fails without adminstrator rights

nicof — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:30:52 GMT

Hi Mike,

thanks for your help. If I start the addins-setup as a normal user, i get this error message:

Prerequisite check for system component Microsoft Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies failed with the following error message:
"Administrator permissions are required to install Microsoft Office 2003 primary interop assemblies. Contact your administrator."

So I am only able to install it as administrator. 😕

Currently, I am installing the community 2.9 to try, if it makes a difference.

Kind regards

Nico

Re: Office Integration Plugin fails without adminstrator rights

tonytony — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:29:16 GMT

We are about to release 2.1.2E which should contain the WebDAV fixes for Excel (and PowerPoint).

Thanks,
Mike

Are these changes in the add-in or on the webscript?

Re: Office Integration Plugin fails without adminstrator rights

mikeh — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:05:59 GMT

Prerequisite check for system component Microsoft Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies failed with the following error message:
"Administrator permissions are required to install Microsoft Office 2003 primary interop assemblies. Contact your administrator."

So I am only able to install it as administrator. 😕

I'm not sure why this is happening - other people have had success installing the add-ins (and it seems to work here). Is there anything odd about your installation?

The only other thing I can suggest is to right-click "install" the .msi file, which should bypass the PIA installer check.

Mike

Re: Office Integration Plugin fails without adminstrator rights

mikeh — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:06:30 GMT

Are these changes in the add-in or on the webscript?

Just the webscripts.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Office Integration Plugin fails without adminstrator rights

tonytony — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:38:44 GMT

I'm not sure why this is happening - other people have had success installing the add-ins (and it seems to work here). Is there anything odd about your installation?

The only other thing I can suggest is to right-click "install" the .msi file, which should bypass the PIA installer check.

Mike

Mike:

I still can't get the add-in to work in a non-administrator account. Installation works either installing as administrator or using the "run-as" command. But the user has to be administrator. Probably some security setting somewere.

Re: Office Integration Plugin fails without adminstrator rights

airjaja — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:21:25 GMT

Hi,

I have the same problem.
For our project, we use Alfresco 2.1.3.
I install the Office 2003 SP3 plugin as administrator and check in "for everyone" check box.
I launch MS Word or Excel or Power Point, I see the add in panel and I can configure it.
But if I switch with an user without administrator rights, I can't see the add in panel.

I search on Alfresco issue, I find a similar problem in bug AWC-1505 witch has been fixed on release 2.1.0E (CHK-1095)
but I can't access to the correction details (CHK-1095)

Someone has any Idea ?
Haja RAKOTOVOALAVO

Re: Office Integration Plugin fails without adminstrator rights

fschnell — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:36:18 GMT

Hello,

we had exactly the same problem. Installed as admin, check flag 'install for all' and result, only the administrator, or better the person who installed it, can use.

The problem is that there are 2 registry keys with each five values which are created inside the HKCU hive. They are only created for the account which installed the plugin, but for no-one else, whether you select the option or not. To fix this you need to manipulate the registry.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: Only do this if you are experienced in manipulating the registry !!! Worst case, nothing on this computer works anymore ! Be warned.
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Just search the registry when logged in as the user who installed the plugin for the keyword AlfrescoWord2003 in the HKCU hive. You should find it within
HKCU\Software\Alfresco and HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Office11\…\AddIns\ Each of them should have 5 values listed.

In principle you need to copy these to the registry of the user for which things fail. Make sure to reset the UserID and Password values to nothing before doing so.

This works for us and I scripted it and started testing it today. It is meant to become part of the plugin installation process.

Good luck
Frank

Re: Office Integration Plugin fails without adminstrator rights

mikeh — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:31:42 GMT

Hi Frank

You should only need the Microsoft Office keys - the Alfresco ones will be created when the add-in is first run. The advantage of copying the Alfresco ones is that the URLs will be pre-populated.

By the way, the reason this is all a bit confused is that Microsoft insist on local admin rights to install certain .NET Programmability pieces for Office and to register our components with the registry. However, in order for us to be compatible with Office 2007, the add-in keys have to be in HKCU - the Office 2003-compatible ones in HKLM are ignored completely. This precludes the "install once" solution we'd hoped for. Apparently this is "by design" :roll: The official Microsoft response(on the MSDN forums) to people like Alfresco hitting these problems is to "push the config out using Group Policy distribution". The simpler way is to copy the registry keys!

Cheers,
Mike