Server Side COM Automation

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Rajesh Patel

Unfortunately we wrote an app utilizing COM to
create powerpoint slides on a server.

Turns out that microsoft doesn't officially support this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q257757

Powerpoint can't handle multiple requests to build slides and
will stop handling COM calls if a dialog is up.

Rather than start over and use something like open
office, we're investigating writing some sort of
broker to coordinate access to powerpoint.

How would I go about setting up powerpoint so it could only
be used by certain accounts and have the COM automation respect
that security.

Raj
 
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Hello,

In the meantime (while waiting for suggestions/recommendations), if you (or
anyone else reading this message) think that it's important that PowerPoint
provide this kind of functionality, don't forget to send your feedback (in
YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base at:
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Raj,
Several of the MVP's have done applications like you are talking about
in Excel, Word and PowerPoint. We've all resorted to various
workarounds like downloading an .xml file to the local desktop and
having a set of code create a new file which is then saved. Since it's
a new file it doesn't have any code in it.

It's the best solution that seems to be available.

Brian Reilly, PowerPoint MVP
 
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