[THIN] Re: Help! Office Macro fails on fresh built servers . .
- From: Berny Stapleton <berny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:01:35 +0100
Have you disabled the anti-virus on this machine? I am just
questioning if you have a different scanning engine or definitions on
this box.
On 7/20/09, Warren Simondson <caditc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 20th, 2009 at 11:51 AM, James Scanlon <scanjam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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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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