This is unsafe computing from my experience, but what do you think? Are there any technotes or horror stories you can point me to?
Subject: ADMINS! Can I install MS Office on your server?
Against MS recommendations, we use Office for automated VBA apps on our servers (Creating multi-page Word Documents, XLS files, etc.)
As long as noone logs off of the server console while office is in use by an agent, it’s great. When someone logs off, word/excel closes (even though it’s running as the localsystem and not the current user). This causes the agent to get an automation object error and close. I think that’s the only issue we’ve run into.
Subject: RE: ADMINS! Can I install MS Office on your server?
I’ve gone the other way, using LotusScript agents with OLE to create Office documents, from scheduled Domino agents. Doesn’t care whether anyone logs into the server or not. My LS agents never allow the Excel app to be visible on the console.