That's funny, the multi-national company I work for is removing all MS Office automation because MS apparently told us that unattended automation is against the licensing terms. It's OK if you're watching the computer I guess, but not on a server.
Personally this didn't match what I found online (they said it was not supported i.e. if it breaks tough luck) but what would I know. Money must be spent retrofitting other solutions now.
I joked we should pay a minimum wage high school kid to sit in a room and 'watch' the servers but I guess that's too low tech ;)
They have specific solutions that are integrated into things like SharePoint to handle this so they're just putting the hurt on the big guys in order to get more monies.
Total Microsoft play on that for sure - I've never ran into the same issue though.
Yeah I looked into this, and it's definitely overkill for what we wanted (plus sending them more money to fix a problem they made for us would be very grating). All we needed to do is read/write Excel data and similar functions and keeping it local is key. There wasn't much available when this got put in place but there are plenty of reliable libraries now.
Personally this didn't match what I found online (they said it was not supported i.e. if it breaks tough luck) but what would I know. Money must be spent retrofitting other solutions now.
I joked we should pay a minimum wage high school kid to sit in a room and 'watch' the servers but I guess that's too low tech ;)