Question for MVP - install Excel 2003 on MS Server 2003

[WCM]

We are running Microsoft Server 2003 on one of our servers and we need to
install Excel 2003 on same server. After install, when we open Excel, we get
a warning stating, 'Cannot Use Object Linking and Embedding', and then
another warning stating, 'An Error Occurred in initializing the VBA
Libraries(14)'.

Do you know how we can fix this? Is it somehow a security issue? We have
double-checked that we have downloaded the right VBA libraries.

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[SCORPIO]

Take a look in the following articles of Microsoft.
They're might be helpful :

How to configure Office applications for automation from a COM+/MTS package
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/288368/en-us

How to configure Office applications to run under a specific user account
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/288367/en-us

How to configure Office applications to run under the interactive user
account
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/288366/en-us

Considerations for server-side Automation of Office
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257757/en-us

Stanos

 

[WCM]

Thank you Stanos - we are visting those articles now...

 

[arjen.stobbe]

Hey WCM, did you ever get to fix this issue? I'm really stuck on this,
it would be great when you can share your findings.
Best,
Arjen

 

[christopher.azer]

Hey WCM, did you ever get to fix this issue? I'm really stuck on this,
it would be great when you can share your findings.
Best,
Arjen

I just recently encounted this error on a machine with Excel 2003 sp2
and another machine with Excel XP sp3.
For Excel 2003 sp2, i installed windows updates for Office/Excel and
upgraded to sp3. That fix it.