F
Fredrik Eriksson
I have an old solution with a NT service that
periodically starts Excel to update reports. The user
account starting the service has administrator rights.
The excel reports are based on a xla-file and the
communication is done with DDE and user impersonation of
the caller. The solution works on Windows 2000 but fails
on Windows XP, with Excel 2000 and Excel 2002.
Changing the window station to "Winsta0" and desktop
to "Default", or letting the process inherit the desktop
and window station from the creater doesn't help.
The error I get is a DMLERR_EXECACKTIMEOUT when trying to
open the xla-file or poke a value to it.
Does anyone know of changes that have been made in
windows XP that could be causing this behaviour?
periodically starts Excel to update reports. The user
account starting the service has administrator rights.
The excel reports are based on a xla-file and the
communication is done with DDE and user impersonation of
the caller. The solution works on Windows 2000 but fails
on Windows XP, with Excel 2000 and Excel 2002.
Changing the window station to "Winsta0" and desktop
to "Default", or letting the process inherit the desktop
and window station from the creater doesn't help.
The error I get is a DMLERR_EXECACKTIMEOUT when trying to
open the xla-file or poke a value to it.
Does anyone know of changes that have been made in
windows XP that could be causing this behaviour?