Cannot install the xlwings ribbon in Excel 2007 - xlwings

I've installed xlwings and its addin, but cannot get the ribbon to appear in Excel 2007.
The xlwings.xlam file is in the default User Startup folder and I've checked that it is included in the Trusted Locations.
I can browse to that file using the Add-In dialogue, add it to the 'Add-Ins available' list and tick it but still no ribbon.
What am I missing?

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VS2017 Web Publish Preview - unable to exclude files

When publishing a web application in Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise I can do a preview on the files that are changed by clicking the preview link. The window comes up and I can uncheck files I dont want BUT, there is only a cancel button, and I am not able to update the file list.
There use to be the ability to click Publish from that view to only update the selected files but now that is no longer the case.
Is there an alternative "tools" way in Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise to publish and exclude certain files from being updated for example the web.config?
I don't have an alternative tool however according to the forums this has been patched and will be deployed in the next public release (15.3).
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/26373/publish-preview-not-allowing-selective-publish-of.html
I've been getting around this by copying the files that I don't want and replacing them back after I publish.
I can confirm that this has now been fixed as of the latest update 15.3 which was released this week

How to open Microsoft Project file on SharePoint 2013 in client application

We have an on-premise SharePoint 2013 farm, and we have a few .mpp files stored in a library.
.xls and .doc files in the library were opening in the respective Web Apps, but the .mpp files were not.
I was getting an alert asking if I wanted to allow the website to open an app on the computer.
On selecting Allow, it was showing a prompt for getting an app for ms-project from the Store.
I changed the library to open all files in client applications, but the behavior for .mpp files persist.
Curious case is that if I open 'View properties' and click on the link, it opens in the client application.
How can I force the .mpp files to always open in the client?
We fixed this with a very simple change in the view.
We unchecked the default Name (linked to document with edit menu) column and replaced it with Name (linked to document).
Now we are able to open the .mpp file in the client application.

Web Essentials 2017 not showing up in VS 2017

I've installed Web Essentials 2017. When I open Visual Studio Enterprise 2017, it shows as being an installed extension, and "Reset Web Essentials" shows on the tools menu, but there are no settings that I can see. Shouldn't a settings dialog box be available somewhere?
Also, I thought if I create a .less file, open it, then save it, .css and .min.css files should immediately show up below the less file. That doesn't happen.
Additionally, the Web Essentials toolbar doesn't appear in Edge when I run a website from within Visual Studio. Hitting Ctrl doesn't make it appear.
What's going on here? Looks like Web essentials didn't install correctly and isn't working.
Clicking Tools->Reset Web Essentials fixed it. It looks like that just reinstalls it. Although I had already uninstalled and reinstalled, this worked.
There still doesn't appear to be an overall Web Essentials settings dialog box under tools. It appears that since it was broken up into individual components rather than one huge plugin, each plugin has its own little popup menu now, and a few of them show up when you right click on the Project.
According to this link it was removed for few reasons. To fix it you have to download the chrome extension and also download the Browser Link Inspector
I had the same issue with extension downloaded from the web.
So i installed it from the marketplace and it works just fine.

.EXE in .CAB can not install from Win7, IE8

I have made a browser plugin and tried to deploy it from a .cab file in IE. And it's per-user install.
My problem is in Windows XP, The installation works well in different users. However, in Windows 7, when open the page including the .cab, the .cab file is downloaded and extracted, but when I click 'install' button, nothing happens.
Here's .inf file:
[version]
Signature="$CHICAGO$"
AdvancedINF=2.0
[Deployment]
InstallScope=user
[Setup Hooks]
hook1=hook1
[hook1]
run=%EXTRACT_DIR%\MyPlugin.exe
'MyPlugin.exe' is in the .cab file too.
Note that there's a [Deployment] segment in the code, I get it from MSDN, if delete this segment, it can install in Win7, but UAC popup and I need to enter admin password. But the browser plugin I made is for per-user, I think it should not need the admin privilege here.
UPDATE:
Now I find that IE doesn't request admin privilege only when browsing the page from intranet, otherwise, it will still request admin privilege if browsing from internet, so I doubt that IE will force using admin privilege to execute the hook to install .exe file.
If your %EXTRACT_DIR% is anywhere outside of \users\%user%\ or any subdirectories then it will require administrator password: ie. Programfiles.
You are probably not registering your plugin under HKEY_CURRENT_USER , for the deployment to work without the UAC popup popping out correctly on Windows 7. According to MSDN your plugin needs to be registered under HKEY_CURRENT_USER : On both Windows XP and Windows Vista, non-administrators are prevented from installing any ActiveX on their own. But now an **ActiveX registered under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER** hive is now fully supported by Internet Explorer within the context of a user's privilege level.

Programmatically change "Copy content in this package to a package share on distribution points" on SCCM 2012

I have a number of packages on an SCCM 2012 server. I would like to change the "Copy content in this package to a package share on distribution points" option on the "Data Access" tab of a package properties page using WMI?
I am familiar with manipulating SCCM objects with WMI and SCCM with .NET and VBScript, but cannot find where this option can be changed?
The properties you are looking for is ShareName(String) and ShareType(Int).
For example if you want the settings as shown in the gui below,
The settings should be changed to
ShareName="share1"
ShareType=2