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Hi all,

Situation:
- ASP.net application, written in VB.net
- Excel 2002 installed on server

Problem:
The application I wrote is an ASP.net webpage that uses Excel to generate
some pages. This works already more than 1,5 years on a Windows 2000 server
with IIS 5 and the .NET Framework 1.1.
To run the Excel from a webpage, I "activated" impersonation in the
machine.config.

Now, another copy of that application needs to be installed on a new server:
Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6.
Troubles from the first run!
I'm getting the well known error saying "Cannot create ActiveX component". I
tuned eveything in the same way as I did (already 10 times) on Windows 2000
Machines.
I guess it is a security issue, so I changed the settings in "dcomcnfg.exe",
with no effect...

Does anyone has a suggestion how to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance!

Sam

"Sam Vanderstraeten" <> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> Situation:
> - ASP.net application, written in VB.net
> - Excel 2002 installed on server
>
> Problem:
> The application I wrote is an ASP.net webpage that uses Excel to generate
> some pages. This works already more than 1,5 years on a Windows 2000
> server
> with IIS 5 and the .NET Framework 1.1.
> To run the Excel from a webpage, I "activated" impersonation in the
> machine.config.
>
> Now, another copy of that application needs to be installed on a new
> server:
> Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6.
> Troubles from the first run!
> I'm getting the well known error saying "Cannot create ActiveX component".
> I
> tuned eveything in the same way as I did (already 10 times) on Windows
> 2000
> Machines.
> I guess it is a security issue, so I changed the settings in
> "dcomcnfg.exe",
> with no effect...
>
> Does anyone has a suggestion how to solve this problem?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Sam
>
>
You may wish to review the contents of the following Knowlege Base
Article: -

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;257757

Basically, Office is not supported in a server scenario.

Regards,

Nick Hall