Deploying Your Extension

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Deploying your extension is no different than deploying a custom template. You need to register your ActiveX DLL on the user's computer and copy the DLL itself to the local hard disk. You also must add custom registry settings to the templates on the user's computer on which you want to use your extension. You have a number of choices for achieving these steps. You can distribute your extension to your users by employing Microsoft Systems Management Server, the Visual Basic Package and Deployment Wizard, or another tool. Systems Management Server provides the easiest and most powerful way to distribute your extension, but it requires that you have its infrastructure already established in your organization. If you used Visual Basic to create your extension, you'll probably use the Visual Basic Package and Deployment Wizard. This wizard is quite easy to use and can create customized setup programs for deploying your extension. For more information about this wizard, see the Visual Basic documentation.