Why does my Outlook 2003 .Com Add-In disappears after reboot!

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Hi

I am trying to rollout a .Com add-in for Outlook 2003 which links Outlook to

a third party application (Gifts - www.microedge.com). The add-in installs

fine and the icon appears on the standard outlook toolbar. The link works and

does as it is supposed to.

However when the user logs off and logs back on again the icon no longer

appears, the .Com add-in does not show on the Help > About Outlook > Disabled

Items and also is not shown on Tools > Options > Other > Advanced > Com

Add-ins ..

I have tried installing the add-in as Local Admin, Domain Admin and

Administrator all with the same result. I have also added a standard user to

the local admin group and installed the add-in on their login but this also

failed on reboot.

I get no errors and no

My Setup:

Exchange Server 2007 SP1

Windows Server 2003 x64 Service Pack 2

Windows XP SP3

Outlook 2003 SP3

Any help would be great

Thanks in advance David
 
Where is the addin registered, in HKCU or HKLM? If it's in HKLM then on

Outlook 2003 you would never see it in the COM Add-Ins dialog since it was

registered as an administrative installation. If that's the case then I'd

look into the registry and see if LoadBehavior has been changed to 2.

That can happen even without disabling the addin if you have unhandled

exceptions that aren't crashing Outlook. It can also happen if Outlook is

not exiting and on restart you are working with a hung session. I'd check in

Task Manager to verify that Outlook is actually exiting.

If it's an unhandled exception it seems to have worse effects if you are

using managed code as opposed to using unmanaged code. In addition, if you

are using managed code then you have to suspect possible load errors,

although the fact that the addin loaded once tends to discount that

possibility.

"DavidA" <DavidA> wrote in message

news:4400AEE7-0F8D-425C-AC85-FBD537A31AFD@microsoft.com...
> Hi

> I am trying to rollout a .Com add-in for Outlook 2003 which links Outlook
> to
> a third party application (Gifts - www.microedge.com). The add-in installs
> fine and the icon appears on the standard outlook toolbar. The link works
> and
> does as it is supposed to.

> However when the user logs off and logs back on again the icon no longer
> appears, the .Com add-in does not show on the Help > About Outlook

> Disabled
> Items and also is not shown on Tools > Options > Other > Advanced > Com
> Add-ins ..

> I have tried installing the add-in as Local Admin, Domain Admin and
> Administrator all with the same result. I have also added a standard user
> to
> the local admin group and installed the add-in on their login but this
> also
> failed on reboot.

> I get no errors and no

> My Setup:

> Exchange Server 2007 SP1
> Windows Server 2003 x64 Service Pack 2
> Windows XP SP3
> Outlook 2003 SP3

> Any help would be great

> Thanks in advance David
 
Thanks Ken,

The Add-in is registered HKCU and I have checked the task manager and

Outlook seems to be exiting fine.

I have since found the following warning in the event viewer but I'm not

sure if this is relevant:

The COM+ Event System failed to create an instance of the subscriber

partition:{41E90F3E-56C1-4633-81C3-6E8BAC8BDD70}!new:{6295DF2D-35EE-11D1-8707-00C04FD93327}. CoGetObject returned HRESULT 8000401A.

Thanks
wrote:


> Where is the addin registered, in HKCU or HKLM? If it's in HKLM then on
> Outlook 2003 you would never see it in the COM Add-Ins dialog since it was
> registered as an administrative installation. If that's the case then I'd
> look into the registry and see if LoadBehavior has been changed to 2.

> That can happen even without disabling the addin if you have unhandled
> exceptions that aren't crashing Outlook. It can also happen if Outlook is
> not exiting and on restart you are working with a hung session. I'd check in
> Task Manager to verify that Outlook is actually exiting.

> If it's an unhandled exception it seems to have worse effects if you are
> using managed code as opposed to using unmanaged code. In addition, if you
> are using managed code then you have to suspect possible load errors,
> although the fact that the addin loaded once tends to discount that
> possibility.

> >

>

> "DavidA" <DavidA> wrote in message
> news:4400AEE7-0F8D-425C-AC85-FBD537A31AFD@microsoft.com...
> > Hi
> > I am trying to rollout a .Com add-in for Outlook 2003 which links Outlook
> > to
> > a third party application (Gifts - www.microedge.com). The add-in installs
> > fine and the icon appears on the standard outlook toolbar. The link works
> > and
> > does as it is supposed to.
> > However when the user logs off and logs back on again the icon no longer
> > appears, the .Com add-in does not show on the Help > About Outlook

> > Disabled
> > Items and also is not shown on Tools > Options > Other > Advanced > Com
> > Add-ins ..
> > I have tried installing the add-in as Local Admin, Domain Admin and
> > Administrator all with the same result. I have also added a standard user
> > to
> > the local admin group and installed the add-in on their login but this
> > also
> > failed on reboot.
> > I get no errors and no
> > My Setup:
> > Exchange Server 2007 SP1
> > Windows Server 2003 x64 Service Pack 2
> > Windows XP SP3
> > Outlook 2003 SP3
> > Any help would be great
> > Thanks in advance David

>
 
There's really no way to tell what's going on from that information. If your

LoadBehavior is still 3 and you are registered in HKCU there shouldn't be a

reason for the addin to not at least show up in the COM Add-Ins dialog.

Do you do any error logging? I'd suggest heavily logging everything to see

if the addin is at least loading.

Are you handling all exceptions? You have to with a COM addin.

You didn't say if this was managed or unmanaged code, so I can't really

offer any other advice.

"DavidA" <DavidA> wrote in message

news:6B98756A-E89D-4020-9A88-23DE482C470B@microsoft.com...
> Thanks Ken,

> The Add-in is registered HKCU and I have checked the task manager and
> Outlook seems to be exiting fine.

> I have since found the following warning in the event viewer but I'm not
> sure if this is relevant:

> The COM+ Event System failed to create an instance of the subscriber
> partition:{41E90F3E-56C1-4633-81C3-6E8BAC8BDD70}!new:{6295DF2D-35EE-11D1-8707-00C04FD93327}.
> CoGetObject returned HRESULT 8000401A.

> Thanks
 
Thanks for your help Ken, sorry I'm not that clued up with this type of

problem.

David
wrote:


> There's really no way to tell what's going on from that information. If your
> LoadBehavior is still 3 and you are registered in HKCU there shouldn't be a
> reason for the addin to not at least show up in the COM Add-Ins dialog.

> Do you do any error logging? I'd suggest heavily logging everything to see
> if the addin is at least loading.

> Are you handling all exceptions? You have to with a COM addin.

> You didn't say if this was managed or unmanaged code, so I can't really
> offer any other advice.

> >

>

> "DavidA" <DavidA> wrote in message
> news:6B98756A-E89D-4020-9A88-23DE482C470B@microsoft.com...
> > Thanks Ken,
> > The Add-in is registered HKCU and I have checked the task manager and
> > Outlook seems to be exiting fine.
> > I have since found the following warning in the event viewer but I'm not
> > sure if this is relevant:
> > The COM+ Event System failed to create an instance of the subscriber
> > partition:{41E90F3E-56C1-4633-81C3-6E8BAC8BDD70}!new:{6295DF2D-35EE-11D1-8707-00C04FD93327}.
> > CoGetObject returned HRESULT 8000401A.
> > Thanks

>
 
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