Is it possible for Outlook addins to be only disabled from the Outlook Com Addins dialog by those users with administrative permissions and not by normal users?

• Moved by Fei XueMicrosoft contingent staff 2 hours 21 minutes ago

Hello Deepak,

No, it is not. The HKCU hive can be used for disabling add-ins by regular users. Moreover, the add-in can be disabled by Office applications. Here is what the How to: Re-enable an Add-in That Has Been Disabled page in MSDN states:

Microsoft Office applications can disable add-ins that behave unexpectedly. If an application does not load your add-in, the application might have hard disabled or soft disabled your add-in.

Hard disabling can occur when an add-in causes the application to close unexpectedly. It might also occur on your development computer if you stop the debugger while the Startup event handler in your add-in is executing.

Soft disabling can occur when an add-in produces an error that does not cause the application to unexpectedly close. For example, an application might soft disable an add-in if it throws an unhandled exception while the Startup event handler is executing.

When you re-enable a soft-disabled add-in, the application immediately attempts to load the add-in. If the problem that initially caused the application to soft disable the add-in has not been fixed, the application will soft disable the add-in again.

• Edited by Eugene Astafiev 3 hours 49 minutes ago

Hi Deepak,

The suggestion provided by Eugene is helpful and I also would to move it to Outlook IT Pro Discussions to discuss end-user issue.

The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us.

Thanks for your understanding.

Regards &am