Thanks to Steven Manross, I'm a step further along in troubleshooting this. Using Steven's suggestion, I got the following from OLE->LastError: 'Win32::OLE(0.1403) error 0x80070005: "Access is denied"'. Does anyone out there know anything about how the Win2k scheduler accesses objects (and, more importantly, how to circumvent this problem)? As I stated earlier, the scheduled task is running under the same userid I use to log on when I successfully run my program at a command prompt.
Ken -----Original Message----- From: Steven Manross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 5:18 PM To: LeFevre, Ken; perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: RE: Win32::Ole (MAPI) and Win2K scheduler Replace : die "Oops, cannot start Outlook"; with open (FILE,">>c:\\outlookerror.txt"); print FILE "Oops, cannot start Outlook\n".Win32::OLE->LastError(); close (FILE); die "Oops, cannot start Outlook"; It will help refine what error the script is throwing (and refine the possible solutions to the problem). Steven ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of LeFevre, Ken Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 1:01 PM To: perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: Win32::Ole (MAPI) and Win2K scheduler I created a program using ActiveState's perl 5.8.4, compiled it using perlapp 5.3.0 and ran it on Windows 2000 Professional SP4 against Outlook 2000 SR-1 (9.0.0.3821). It runs properly both from a command prompt and as a scheduled task. I released it into production on Windows 2000 server SP4 using the identical version of Outlook 2000. Again, it runs great from a command prompt. When I run it as a scheduled task, however, it dies because it's not able to get the Outlook Application. Here's the relevant code: Win32::OLE->Initialize(Win32::OLE::COINIT_OLEINITIALIZE); die Win32::OLE->LastError(),"\n" if Win32::OLE->LastError( ); eval { $Outlook = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Outlook.Application') }; die "Outlook is not installed" if $@; unless (defined $Outlook) { $Outlook = Win32::OLE->new('Outlook.Application', sub {$_[0]->Quit;}); or die "Oops, cannot start Outlook"; <======================= dies here under Win2k srvr as a scheduled task As best I can tell, Outlook is registered the same on both machines. The same dlls exist on both. I even set up the scheduled task to run under the same userid I used when logging on to the server to run the program from the command prompt. My theory is that there is some sort of permissions issue or a difference in the scheduled task environment between the two versions of the Win2k OS, but I'm not succeeded at finding the problem and how to resolve it. I would greatly appreciate any insight or assistance in getting this to run in the new environment. Thanks, Ken _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
