John Blessing wrote:[color=blue]
> "Greg Andora" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8B0D12B0-CA21-4D69-88BC-9D35E6BEEA82@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've had an ASP page that worked for at the minimum for a year and
>> now it[/color]
> is acting very odd and I need some help to fix it. What my page
> does/did is creates a Word.Application object and a new document from
> a template. It then proceeds to fill in a bunch of the information
> on the word document using bookmarks and data from a database. Then
> it saves the document to a directory and sends the user off to go get
> the new document.[color=green]
>>
>> What is extremely odd about this is that on my two machines it is
>> working[/color]
> fine, but on my firm's managed desktops, they get a error when word
> tries to create the application object. I don't quite understand how
> permissions in IE would come into play here since ASP code is run on
> the server right? Isn't the Word.Application object being created on
> my server and not the clients?[color=green]
>>
>> Does anybody have any suggestions on this?
>>
>> Thanks a ton (in advanced),
>> Greg Andora
>>[/color]
>
> Yes, it is being created on the server, but, (assuming you are using
> anonymous authentication), it is being created by the
> IUSR_machinename user, who will need execute privileges on MSWord and
> write privileges in the folder you create the document.[/color]
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