On 1/4/06, LeFevre, Ken <> wrote:
> 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 []
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 5:18 PM
> To: LeFevre, Ken;
> 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:
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of
> LeFevre, Ken
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 1:01 PM
> To:
> 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
>
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Try going into Administrative Tools => Local Security Settings => User
Rights Assignment and experiment with the 'Log on as a batch job' and
'Log on as a service' settings.
-Jason
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