Today, whilst troubleshooting an Outlook add-in issue, I was asked by one of the vendors to provide a list of Outlook add-ins. Rather than take a screenshot, I wanted to do this in PowerShell as then I could invoke it remotely on the machine in question without disturbing the user.
Here’s how I achieved this:
$searchScopes = "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins","HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins"
$searchScopes | % {Get-ChildItem -Path $_ | % {Get-ItemProperty -Path $_.PSPath} | Select-Object @{n="Name";e={Split-Path $_.PSPath -leaf}},FriendlyName,Description} | Sort-Object -Unique -Property name
This results in a neat text-based table that can be pasted into an email:
Great! Worked a treat for me. Here’s a word of warning to anyone using it though, you need to put in the backslash character separator between the various levels in the registry. I think pasting the code in to the content here lost it for Daniel S as it must have been stripped out by the parser, i.e. HKCU:Software and then a backslash as a separator for subsequent levels like Microsoft backslash Office etc.
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Thanks for the heads-up. It appears that the formatting got messed up when I moved my blog to wordpress.com.
I’ve corrected the PowerShell code now.
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Awesome.Thank you.
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Thanks this worked great for me today.
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This is fantastic and still works in 2019. Thank you.
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This was extremely helpful. Thank you! One thing that I’ve found is a plugin will be installed but not enabled. Do you have an idea of how to show that the plugin is installed, and enabled/disabled?
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Hi! Sorry, I’ve not had to do that before. Have you done some digging around in the registry? That’s all I do, and then use that information in my scripts.
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can we display the status of the addin? enabled or disabled
thanks!
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Hi. Yes, you should be able to add “,LoadBehavior” after “FriendlyName,Description”. The only caveat is that you may need to pipe the second line to Out-GridView or Format-List as the extra column is too wide for Format-Table.
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Hey Daniel this is so good, so good indeed, would you happen to have a similar script for Excel ?
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Hi, sorry no, but if you inspect the registry path for Excel add-ins you should be able to adjust the script.
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Hi, neat bit of code exactly what I was looking for. Quick question, is it deliberate that you used HKCU for the x64 path and HKLM for the x86 path?
Cheers again,
Daz.
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Hi Darren. Thanks. Probably not, it was probably a copy/paste error or had to do with the plugins I was looking for at the time when I wrote this. Well spotted.
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