Using Windows SxS to override COM Objects as LUA
Ran accross a great article on how to use SxS Manifest files to intsall COM objects as Non-Admin. This approach has several limitations
- Only works an XP SP1 (and higher) and W2K3 (and higher).
- Requires you to have write access to the directory containing the executable
- Doesn't allow you to just register COM objects for all apps
However this is a handy piece of knowledge to have.
https://www.red-gate.com/other/com_without_registration.htm
It is in fact possible to register COM objects for all your apps as an LUA. I will hopefully blog on that process sometime this week.