Templafy Desktop for server mode

Updated February 24, 2023 09:12

About this article

Templafy Desktop is the client Templafy uses to deploy add-ins for Microsoft Office and Templafy Desktop can be installed on Citrix VDI environments. In this article we will explain how to deploy Templafy Desktop in a Citrix/RDS context.

Prerequisites

System admin
Pre-requisites Templafy Add-Ins for Templafy One
Windows Server 2008 is not supported.
Note that Templafy Desktop for Citrix must be enabled in Templafy before you can install it on a Citrix server. Contact Templafy to have this option enabled.

Citrix Installation

For Published Apps, such as Citrix XenApp, it greatly depends on your current setup, and you might have to pre-register the registry keys that loads the add-ins in Office on the Citrix image manually.

On Citrix, %ProgramData% is locked and does not have Creator/Owner rights. Thus, users are not able to update Templafy Desktop or download Templafy Desktop Packages. For Citrix, users will not and cannot actively initiate an update of Templafy Desktop and packages.

Templafy Desktop does not update UserTemplates and Word\Startup folders as it does not run on startup in user context. If a default startup template for PowerPoint (blank.potx) is needed, this must be distributed by client IT.

Install Templafy Desktop

Run below command in an Admin/Elevated prompt or using SCCM:
MSIEXEC /i TemplafyDesktop.[tenant].msi ALLUSERS="1" TEMPLAFYOPTIONS="ServerMode" /quiet
Update Templafy Desktop
Admins will need to run the following command(s). This can be run on the Citrix image, or it can be configured to run every night on all Citrix Servers.
Run as admin (for 32-bit):
%ProgramFiles%\Templafy\Desktop\Templafy.Desktop.exe /forceupdate
Run as admin (for 64-bit):
%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Templafy\Desktop\Templafy.Desktop.exe /forceupdate

Templafy Desktop installation paths

%programfiles(x86)%\Templafy\Desktop
The Templafy Desktop Host is installed in this location
%programdata%\Templafy\Desktop The Templafy Desktop Client is installed in this location
%programdata%\Templafy\AddIns The addins for Office is installed here via Templafy Desktop Client
%appdata%\Microsoft\Signatures Email Signatures created via the Templafy addins are stored here. In the native Signatures folder for Outlook (“…\Signatures” may change depending on Office language installations and version)
%localappdata%\Templafy\Desktop\Logs Log files related to TemplafyDesktop is stored in this location (when updating)
%temp%\Templafy All assets (images, texts, shapes) inserted via Templafy addins are stored here temporarily. After the user exits the Office application using them, they will get deleted.

If any issues arise during the installation of TemplafyDesktop.msi, please add the below switch to add logging which will help to troubleshoot the installation:
```
/lvd* "log.txt"
```

server mode