Today is the release day of Microsoft Office for Mac 2008. Let’s take a look if it is possible to develop a Plug-in for Entourage 2008.

As far as I know, there was no way in Entourage 2004 for a Third Party Developer, and there is still no support from Microsoft. But after four years, things a little different now…

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I’m happy that I have some customer which have large enough deployments that they use Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) to install OMiC. In such a deployment the administrator don’t want that a update dialog pop up by his users, which has most the time not the rights to perform the update.

For this cases I add to Sparkle the SUIgnoreChecks key, which the administrator can set over Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) in the application preferences file.

OMiC use Sparkle for updating since version 1.7.2, but you can’t use Sparkle do update Plug-ins out of the box. So I spend the last days do turn my home cooked solution into something which work for other Plug-ins as well. If you are interested, checkout the Sparkle subversion repository.

Yesterday I switched to PackageMaker 3.0 to generate packages. My Plug-in OMiC is build separate for Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4 to support the different features.

So the simplest solution maybe offer two downloads and give user the choice which version he needs. But thanks to Metapackages and Distribution Packages the installer choice which version is needed.

So let us start PackageMaker (/Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker) …

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