I'm using automate excel vba macro send emails. I want to set it in Task Scheduler to make it automate. When screen is not locked everything works perfect, but when set Task Scheduler and lock the screen the macro stop at below moment. It doesn't return any errors. It just stop and shows blank new email window in outlook app.
Do you know if there is any option to fix that?
Dim xInspect As Object
Dim pageEditor As Object
Set xInspect = OutMail.GetInspector
Set pageEditor = xInspect.WordEditor
Worksheets("Email_Sender_Body").Range("K1:K" & row_count_body).Copy
pageEditor.Application.Selection.Start = Len(.Body)
pageEditor.Application.Selection.End = pageEditor.Application.Selection.Start
pageEditor.Application.Selection.PasteAndFormat (wdFormatPlainText)
.Display
Set pageEditor = Nothing
Set xInspect = Nothing
I want to set it in Task Scheduler to make it automate
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, ASP.NET, DCOM, and NT Services), because Office may exhibit unstable behavior and/or deadlock when Office is run in this environment.
If you are building a solution that runs in a server-side context, you should try to use components that have been made safe for unattended execution. Or, you should try to find alternatives that allow at least part of the code to run client-side. If you use an Office application from a server-side solution, the application will lack many of the necessary capabilities to run successfully. Additionally, you will be taking risks with the stability of your overall solution.
Read more about that in the Considerations for server-side Automation of Office article.
As a possible workaround you may consider using the Open XML SDK if you deal with open XML documents only, see Welcome to the Open XML SDK 2.5 for Office for more information. Or you may also consider third-party components designed for the server-side execution.
A low-level API on which Outlook is based can be used from a Windows service - Extended MAPI. Or in case of Exchange server accounts you may use EWS or Graph API. See Explore the EWS Managed API, EWS, and web services in Exchange for more information.
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I have several automation scripts that I wrote to move information in and out of Office applications using VBA. I put all of these together using Office 2003 on a Window 7 computer.
My organization finally got around to moving over to using Windows 10 and Office 2016, and the changeover broke all of the scripts that open one application from the other.
Each script uses these two lines to start the other application:
Dim objExcel As Excel.Application
Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
If I run this snippet from Word started as a standard user, I get an error saying, "Run-time error '429':
ActiveX component can't create object" and debugging tells me the error is from the 'CreateObject' line.
If I run Word as an Administrator, though, Excel starts like I expect it to and I'm able to work with the application object.
I don't want to have to run the application or the automation scripts as an administrator. I'm guessing this is a configuration issue, but my google-fu is failing me.
How do I allow access to the Office applications automation object model from standard users in Windows 10?
I have a Windows service filling cells in an Excel Workbook via OLE Automation.
The save process is not working, the file is never saved. But when done in a GUI app, the save process works.
The service user is an administrator account. I suspect the interaction with the Desktop.
Any idea?
Don't do this. Find another solution. Microsoft does not support or recommend OLE automation of Office software from anywhere but a workstation desktop session. I can't paraphrase any better than what they say directly, so here's the advice (link above goes into more detail) :
All current versions of Microsoft Office were designed, tested, and configured to run as end-user products on a client workstation. They assume an interactive desktop and user profile. They do not provide the level of reentrancy or security that is necessary to meet the needs of server-side components that are designed to run unattended.
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, ASP.NET, DCOM, and NT Services), because Office may exhibit unstable behavior and/or deadlock when Office is run in this environment.
If you are building a solution that runs in a server-side context, you should try to use components that have been made safe for unattended execution. Or, you should try to find alternatives that allow at least part of the code to run client-side. If you use an Office application from a server-side solution, the application will lack many of the necessary capabilities to run successfully. Additionally, you will be taking risks with the stability of your overall solution.
If you need your service to store data, a database is probably a good choice. Any users that require the data in an excel spreadsheet could populate their documents from the database. You could even set up template documents to do this automatically.
I had the same problem, run a Delphi software as service, with an administrator user and it gave to me a lot of errors in the read/write process like SaveAs method of Workbook class failed
The solution for read/save was create both folders below:
C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\
There isn't much sense at all, but it worked.
I have code which will send email when done through a button click.
I have scheduled the same code to run periodically through Task Scheduler. The mail gets in draft stage.
Issue 1: if I use .Send, there is a security pop up with allow or deny options
Issue 2: to avoid the above pop up, I used .Display, wait for the application and sendkeys --> this is working when run through button click but when run through scheduler the email stays in draft stage.
Issue 1 : if I use .send in mail, it ask for a security pop up with allow or deny option
This is a standard security prompt in Outlook. "Security" in this context refers to the so-called "object model guard" that triggers security prompts and blocks access to certain features in an effort to prevent malicious programs from harvesting email addresses from Outlook data and using Outlook to propagate viruses and spam. These prompts cannot simply be turned off, except in Outlook 2007 with an anti-virus application running. This page discusses strategies for avoiding security prompts.
Issue 2 : to avoid the above pop up, I have used .display, wait for the application and sendkeys -->
All current versions of Microsoft Office were designed, tested, and configured to run as end-user products on a client workstation. They assume an interactive desktop and user profile. They do not provide the level of reentrancy or security that is necessary to meet the needs of server-side components that are designed to run unattended.
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, ASP.NET, DCOM, and NT Services), because Office may exhibit unstable behavior and/or deadlock when Office is run in this environment.
If you are building a solution that runs in a server-side context, you should try to use components that have been made safe for unattended execution. Or, you should try to find alternatives that allow at least part of the code to run client-side. If you use an Office application from a server-side solution, the application will lack many of the necessary capabilities to run successfully. Additionally, you will be taking risks with the stability of your overall solution. Read more about that in the Considerations for server-side Automation of Office article.
As a possible workaround, you may use a low-level API which doesn't trigger security prompts - Extended MAPI. Or just any wrappers around this API such as Redemption. It allows bridging both issues.
Is it posible to create outlook meeting on Sharepoint page behalf on current sharepoint user?
I try to create meeting by button click with next code
Application oApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application();
AppointmentItem appointment = (AppointmentItem)oApp.CreateItem(OlItemType.olAppointmentItem);
appointment.Start = DateTime.Now.AddHours(1);
appointment.End = DateTime.Now.AddHours(2);
appointment.Subject = "Some subject";
appointment.Body = "Some body";
appointment.Recipients.Add("user1#somemail.com");
appointment.Recipients.Add("user2#somemail.com");
appointment.Save();
But i get this error, on calling appointment.Recipients
Operation aborted (Exception HRESULT: 0x80004004 (E_ABORT))
When i run this code in console application it works fine. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
The Considerations for server-side Automation of Office article states the following:
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, ASP.NET, DCOM, and NT Services), because Office may exhibit unstable behavior and/or deadlock when Office is run in this environment.
If you are building a solution that runs in a server-side context, you should try to use components that have been made safe for unattended execution. Or, you should try to find alternatives that allow at least part of the code to run client-side. If you use an Office application from a server-side solution, the application will lack many of the necessary capabilities to run successfully. Additionally, you will be taking risks with the stability of your overall solution.
If you deal with Exchange profiles, you may consider using EWS (Exchange Web Services). See EWS Managed API, EWS, and web services in Exchange for more information.
I am wondering if it is possible to pass data from an ASP.NET MVC controller to Microsoft Word 2013 Template, using an instantiated Host Item, and bind it to content controls within the template.
Ideally I would like to pass the data to the ThisDocument class and have the data applied to the template's databindings, however I cannot find how to instantiate and use the ThisDocument object after I have created an interop instance of the Word template.
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, ASP.NET, DCOM, and NT Services), because Office may exhibit unstable behavior and/or deadlock when Office is run in this environment.
If you are building a solution that runs in a server-side context, you should try to use components that have been made safe for unattended execution. Or, you should try to find alternatives that allow at least part of the code to run client-side. If you use an Office application from a server-side solution, the application will lack many of the necessary capabilities to run successfully. Additionally, you will be taking risks with the stability of your overall solution. You can read more about that in the Considerations for server-side Automation of Office article.
Consider using the Open XML SDK, see Welcome to the Open XML SDK 2.5 for Office for more information. Or any other third-party components designed for the server-side execution.