[THIN] Re: Help! Office Macro fails on fresh built servers . .
- From: Warren Simondson <caditc@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:29:15 +1000
x64 or x86?
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Warren Simondson
Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy Pty Ltd
Website: http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com.au
On Mon, Jul 20th, 2009 at 11:51 AM, James Scanlon <scanjam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Sorry I should probably mention these are Citrix Servers, XA5.0
> Windows 2003 Sp2 also running Novell 4.91 SP5
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> From: scanjam@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Help! Office Macro fails on fresh built servers . .
> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:58:31 +1000
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> List Legends!
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> Im now stumped.
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> These servers we have built with MDT have been working fine for the
> past month or so
> Then some obscure bunch of users with an even more obscure excel file
> coupled with some stupid macros are now not working.
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> I have replaced the office VB6dlls entirely (from a working server),
> installed VB6SP2, replaced all the VB macro reference dll's.
> Run Procmon to interrogate excel to see what its trying to access...
> but when the file is loaded and macros enabled you know it isnt
> working as the file save process takes over 3 or 4 minutes and then
> fails with
> "document not saved" and then opening VB Editor to run a compile or
> to check references ends with "error loading DLL" . . and NOTHING
> logged in procmon.
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> It happens for me as administrator on any of the broken servers, so
> im assuming its not rights. Macro security is set to Medium, but its
> the same level on servers that are working.
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> I have no doubt an office reinstall would fix this, but i am trying
> to address the root cause so I can apply this to the build, (not have
> all servers build themselves, then repair themselves as part of the
> process before they are even working) :-)
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> Please, please, please any suggestions would be so fabulous right
> about now... :-)
> James
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