PPT 2003 SP2 crashes when automated

[Guest]

Hi,

Just so someone else with the same problem can find a solution. We automate
Powerpoint using a standalone program that is launched from a service running
in the local system account. Up until SP2, this worked just fine. When SP2
was released, Powerpoint (not our application) started crashing when we did
the CreateDispatch(Powerpoint.Application) call.

The solution to fix this was to start our ppt process using Logonasuser
instead of as the local system user (which our service runs in).

I wish MS had not have broken this....

At least there is a workaround.

Thanks,
BMM

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for that. That'll save hours many times over, I'm sure.