Why does the Office Adapter for MS Word/Excel get deployed for the current user only and not per machine (i.e., All Users)?

Quark uses ClickOnce for deployment to ease the update process and to eliminate the need of administrator permissions to install the Office Add-Ins.

• ClickOnce deployed applications, by principle, are installed per user and not per machine (i.e. all users), which enables Add-Ins to isolate and not affect other Add-Ins.

• Installation and updates can be pushed via a web share or a network, however the admin chooses to.

Despite the above benefits, if you still want to install the office Add-In for all users:

• You can use an alternate installer technology such as Windows Installer, and obviously the installer will require administrator privileges.

• You will lose the automatic update benefits and would have to consider an alternative process or implementation

• There are caveats of deploying Office Add-Ins for all users, such as, end users running with standard user privileges cannot install/uninstall or disable an Add-In.

If such an Add-In fails/crashes unexpectedly resulting in the host Office application crashing, the end user cannot do anything to stop the Office application from crashing because they cannot disable the Add-In causing the crash.