Excel Automation as a Scheduled task on Windows Server 2012 R2

11 July 2016 Celtic-Coder C#, Excel, Windows Server

Migrating some Excel Automated code using C# off an old Windows 2003 Server onto Windows Server 2012 R2 and using Scheduled Tasks to run I notice it was failing.  User linked to the Scheduled Task has correct permissions and it is being run with highest privileges.  Excel installed and I can run the code manually fine as that user.  Plenty of threads about the issue but the only thing that worked was:-

FIX

Windows 2008 +

Add 2 directories:-

%windir%\System32\config\systemprofile\Desktop

and

%windir%\sysWOW64\config\systemprofile\Desktop

Windows 2012 r2

Add 2 extra directories:-

%windir%\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\Documents

and

%windir%\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache


Error when importing Excel 2007 spreadsheet into SQL Server 2012

19 February 2014 Admin Excel, SQL Server

Tried to import an Excel 2010 spreadsheet (file extension xlsx) into SQL Server 2012 using the import wizard and selecting Microsoft Excel 2007:-

 

Then I had the following error on my Windows 7 x64 PC:-

SQL Server Import and Export Wizard Error

Additional Information: The 'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0' provider is not registered on the local machine. (System.Data)

This is strange as I have Office 2010 x64 abortion hotline installed?

Fix: you need to install generic abortion pill the x86 (32bit) Office drivers.  This is a simple download from Microsoft called "2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components".

Url - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=23734

Master Data Services Add-In for Microsoft Excel - Error connecting to web url

31 January 2014 Admin Excel

So you have successfuly installed the Master Data Services Add-In for Microsoft Excel and now you want to connect to your Master Data Services on your Server.

Select the "Master Data" tab in Excel

Click Connect

 

Create a new connection

In the Add New Connection put in your Web URL from the Server.

If you get the following error:

The connection failed because the URL is not valid or the are abortions free Mast Data Manager web application version is not supported.

This is usually because you just need to remove the default.aspx from the Web URL abortion pill safety e.g.

http://MSDServer:8081/Default.aspx (as seen in IE)

Now becomes

http://MSDServer:8081 (in MDS Excel Add-In)

Simple when you realise this!