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At first I thought that perhaps the user given to the service didn't have proper credentials to establish DDE connections, so I assigned it a administrator user.

Did you try leaving it as Local System account and enabling "Allow service to interact with desktop"?

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Re^2: Using WIN32::DDE in a Windows Service
by bougon (Novice) on Mar 31, 2009 at 20:50 UTC

    WOW!!!

    Thank You BrowserUk! That was it.

    I've allowed the service to interact and was able to Poke into an Excel cell (simple test).

    I assume other DDE activies will work as well. I will keep the thread active to let other solution seekers know of any problem/solutions.

    Regards,

    Dan

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