Thursday, December 22, 2005

Outlook Startup tries to install VSTS

I had an issue with Outlook 2003 that after installing Visual Studio Team Suite RTM & Team Foundation Client almost everytime I tried to start outlook it would attempt to run visual studio setup.  It would prompt for a disk, run for awhile and then let me use Outlook.  I thought I was alone until Walt Ritscher mentioned having similar problems. 

I tried everything just short of paving my laptop to get rid of this including uninstall reinstall of Office 2003, Visual Studio 2005, etc.

Finally I found a forum post that mentioned re-registering a Windows Installer dll.

In short: regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MSI Tools\mergemod.dll"

More information is in this MSKB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329214/EN-US/

Thursday, December 22, 2005 10:11:55 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #      Comments [0]   VSTS
 

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