So we have a large environment of about 4500 Outlook users and about 5 of them every month have an Add-In crash causing Outlook to crash as well. When they start Outlook back up they receive the prompt to disable the Add-In that caused the crash and they select Yes to disable the Add-In. Unfortunately, they don't realize that the Add-In they disabled is needed for certain business functions. This causes a call to our service desk asking why they now cannot perform that function and the service desk has to spend 5 minutes or so to re-enable the Add-In. Long story short is there a way to either prevent users from disabling Add-Ins or does anyone know of an easy way to script turning Add-Ins back on? 

Thanks

HI,

Bases on your situation, I think we can modify the registry key and deploy it by GPO or startp script to accplish that. The LoadBehavior entry under

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins\addins

ID key contains a bitwise combination of values that specify the run time behavior of the add-in. The lowest order bit (values 0 and 1) indicates whether the add-in is currently unloaded or loaded. Other bits indicate when the application attempts to load the add-in.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/bb386106.aspx

Thanks.

Cheers,
Tony Chen
Forum Support
________________________________________
Come back and mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.
If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tnmff@microsoft.com.

Hi,

Just checking in to see if the information was helpful. Please let us know if you would like further assistance.

Cheers,
Tony Chen
Forum Support
________________________________________
Come back and mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.
If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tnmff@microsoft.com.

Hi,

I'm marking the reply as answer as there has been no update for a couple of days.

If you come back to find it doesn't work for you, please reply to us and unmark the answer.

Cheers,
Tony Chen
Forum Support
________________________________________
Come back and mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.
If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tnmff@microsoft.com.