Office 15: How to enable custom folder homepages in non-default stores

Question

I would like to ask you for a help with the issue I noticed on Office 15 bits.

We are developing Outlook add-in which displays data using custom folder homepages.
During the setup we used to set NonDefaultStoreScript registry value (HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Security\) which enabled custom folder homepages in a non-default stores.

Tried same with the new Outlook bits with no success. Is there any workaround for this issue? I guess there should be some alternative registry setting, but I didn’t manage to find it.

Any help would be great.

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Sasa Tomicic
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Answer 1

Hi Sasa,

Thanks for posting in the MSDN Forum.

I think you are able to create a add-in to handle your issue.

Have a good day,

Tom

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Tom Xu [MSFT]
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Answer 2

Hi Tom,

I already have an Add-In but don't see a solution for my issue.

As I can see Microsoft changed the way to enable scripting.

Regards,
Sasa

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Sasa Tomicic
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Answer 3

Hi Sasa,

This seems to be working fine for me in both Outlook 2010 and 2013. Did you change the reg key path from 12.0 to 15.0? Also, is there anything special about the stores you have in your account setup? In both versions I tested, I was using a single Exchange mailbox store with one or more PSTs loaded.

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Bill Jacob - Microsoft Customer Service & Support - Developer Messaging

Answer 4

Hi Bill,

yes, updated reg key path to 15.0. Outlook 2010 worked always as expected.
Test environment: 64-bit machine with installed VS 2012 + Office 2010 + Office 2013.

This is my standard dev machine, always worked as expected with Office/Outlook 2010.

Another issue I noticed is the fact that folder context menu events are never fired (and also store and item context menu events).

Regards,
Sasa

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Sasa Tomicic
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Answer 5

Sasa,

Item context menu functionality in the object model had a relatively short life since it was introduced in Outlook 2007 and deprecated in Outlook 2010 since this was transitioned over to ribbon. This is mentioned here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officedevdocs/archive/2009/12/11/preparing-your-existing-solutions-to-run-on-outlook-2010.aspx

Offhand, I'm not sure why the reg key is not working for you since it is working for me. Are you using 64-bit office, by chance? Can you try setting up a new MAPI profile with new accounts to see if there's perhaps something specific to your configuration in that area? If it still doesn't work, can you please provide details about exactly how you have your accounts set up, i.e., whether it's a plain old secondary PST or perhaps one receiving e-mail, etc. You can also try using a registry-monitoring tool like ProcMon to see if Outlook's actually hitting that registry key you set.

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Bill Jacob - Microsoft Customer Service & Support - Developer Messaging

Answer 6

Hi Bill,

I'm aware of all above mentioned tips related with the ribbons.

Anyway, starting with today I'm on 3 weeks long vacation. Once I'm back, I'll investigate reported issue more in detail and will provide additional information. Sorry for the delay, but at the moment my dev machine is not available to me.

Regards,

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Sasa Tomicic
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Answer 7

Sasa, Any update?

regards,

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Answer 8

Hi All,

sorry for the delay, I was on vacation until today.

Regarding the registry issue we found the solution - the registry key that manages custom folders has been changed!? Everything started to work when we updated it to this key:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Outlook\Security\ NonDefaultStoreScript

Ribbon issue will be investigated during this week.

Regards,

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Sasa Tomicic
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Answer 9

Hi Sasa,

Thanks for the update! If you have further issues with the context menu stuff, please start a new thread on that so we can keep these separate.

Thanks!

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Bill Jacob - Microsoft Customer Service & Support - Developer Messaging