Hoxhunt button: Special - Installing stand-alone Hoxhunt Outlook COM add-in

Introduction

Hoxhunt add-in is also available as a stand-alone COM add-in for users with Classic Desktop Outlook for Windows. This version can be used by Google Workspace users with the said Outlook client, and in highly secured and restricted environments where the use of Exchange Web Services API is forbidden.

COM or VSTO add-ins are earlier Office integration solutions that run only in Office on Windows.

DISCLAIMER: Please discuss this option with your Hoxhunt Onboarding Manager before installing the COM add-in. Hoxhunt is not actively developing this add-in type. It is lacking many features and is more simplistic in its design. Before installing this version, we highly recommend to consider our Officejs add-in which is based on Microsoft's modern Office add-in architecture.

 

There are two installer options available. Please select the one suitable to your purpose.

 

Install using InstallShield Installer (Setup.exe)

Setup executable is attached to the end of this article.


The Setup.exe package can be installed silently with the following switches:
/s /v"/qn"

 

Installing using SCCM (HoxHuntPluginInstaller.msi)

MSI installer is attached to the end of this article.

 

NOTE: HoxHuntPluginInstaller.msi doesn't include dependencies.
When installing .msi via SCCM make sure you add the following dependencies when installing:

  • .NET 3.5
  • VSTO 2010 runtime (Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime)

If you don't have access to these dependencies via other means, please contact Hoxhunt Support.


Notes for installing VSTO 2010

Microsoft hasn't officially provided an .MSI version of Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office runtime (vstor_redist.exe).

Sometimes .EXE files might refuse to run and install successfully via SCCM. SCCM works better with .MSI installers. However, you can try to extract the .MSI from the .EXE in a couple of ways:

  1. Download the vstor_redist.exe from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=105522
  2. Extract the vstor_redist.exe with 7-Zip and look for .MSI folder or files.
  3. Start vstor_redist.exe, don't proceed with the wizard, and look inside your %temp% folder for the MSI.
  4. Extract contents of vstor_redist.exe via command line and look for the MSI:
    <file.exe> /s /x /b"<target-folder>" /v"/qn"

NOTE: if VSTO is already installed on the machine you run this command, it will uninstall itself.

More info on the above methods can be found at: https://www.codetwo.com/kb/msi-from-exe/

 

 

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