Web Service Access Denied with MS Word

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Selden McCabe - 03 Aug 2004 16:51 GMT

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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Dino Chiesa [Microsoft] - 03 Aug 2004 20:42 GMT

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

> I have a web service the uses MS Word to do mail merge and printing
> documents.
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> Any ideas, theories, suggestions?
> Thanks! ---Selden McCabe

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Web Service Access Denied with MS Word

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