Solution (kinda): Turns out this impersonation with .NET's security only allows application-level access. Since the COM object is at the system level, the impersonated user still cannot instantiate it. I figured this out by right-clicking the executable and selecting "Run As...", the program functioned fine. I found out that launches t...
A little back story: I have small application that will use Word to generate a Outlook signature based on a Word template and data from the company active directory. It works wonderful on computers with Office 2007, since I used "Microsoft Word 12.0 Object Library" when I coded it on my own computer. There are quite a few computers on t...
Hi, I'm in the process of porting an old excel addin that was writen in VBA to VB .NET. The Excel addin interacts with a number of external com objects. The code sorta looks like this: Dim hurr as Object Dim durr as String hurr = CreateObject("COM Object") durr = hurr.getString What I'm trying to do is read the string from the COM o...
I am currently using the following script to list the available COM Objects on my machine. $path = "REGISTRY::HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\*\PROGID" foreach ($obj in dir $path) { write-host $obj.GetValue("") } I read on another website that the existence of the InProcServer32 key is evidence that the object is 64 bit compatible. So u...
I want to open the Internet Explorer as a new Com Object with no Add-ons. $ie=New-Object -comobject InternetExplorer.Application How could I start the Internet Explorer without Add-ons? ...