Dear Monks, Apologies in advance for asking a Windows question. I have a Web based Win32::OLE script that uses Excel on the server. It has been working happily for years on a Win2000 server running Excel2000. We recently upgraded to Win2003/Excel2003 and I now get the following error from the script:

Win32::OLE(0.1709) error 0x80070005: "Access is denied" at create_worksheet_lib.plx line 637 eval {...} called at create_worksheet_lib.plx line 637

line 637 is:

$Excel = Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', 'Quit') or return 0;

This appears to be a permissions problem as nothing has changed in the script. Any Windows gurus out there that might be able to help trouble shoot this? Thanks in advance - dorian@uaqa.com

In reply to Win32::OLE question by dorianwinterfeld

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