Re: Web Service Access Denied with MS Word

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Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 15:42:38 -0400

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=257757

Microsoft does not currently recommend, and does not support, Automation of
Microsoft Office applications from any unattended, non-interactive client
application or component (including ASP, DCOM, and NT Services), because
Office may exhibit unstable behavior and/or deadlock when run in this
environment.

-Dino

"Selden McCabe" <smccabe@integrantInc.com> wrote in message
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> I have a web service the uses MS Word to do mail merge and printing
> documents.
> When I run the service on my development box, it works.
> When I run in on the server, I get "Access Denied" when it tries to start
> Word.
> At first, I was getting a dcom launch failure in the event log, but I
fixed
> that with DCOMCNFG settings.
> But I'm still getting Access Denied.
> I tried setting the user for Word (in dcomcnfg) as a local acmin account
on
> the server.
> I tried putting aspnet in the admin group.
> I tried setting the Credentials for the web service before calling the
> method.
> None of these has worked.
>
> Any ideas, theories, suggestions?
> Thanks! ---Selden McCabe
>
>

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