Excel ActiveX: Server Execution Failed Error

I'm using my own ActiveX VIs to control Excel. I take a text file and create a chart from some of the columns, then print the chart. I'm getting a "server execution failed" error when I call PrintOut on the chart object. I understand this error stems from the fact that I'm developing on Excel 2007 and testing on 2003, but upgrading all of the computers that will use this software is not going to happen.
I've fixed all other incompatibilities between versions, and the chart is created correctly, but when the PrintOut method is reached, I get the error. Has anyone ran into this and worked around it? Is my only solution to downgrade my machine to Office 2003?

Here's a few details on that particular error, both of these articles have some workarounds:
Error -2146959355 When Using ActiveX or the Report Generation Toolkit
Error 2146959355 When Running Exe on Machine With Different Version of Office
Tim W.
Applications Engineering
National Instruments
http://www.ni.com/support

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Searching the Microsoft's web site, I found some info on this error:
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   Version    0
   Level    2
   Task    0
   Opcode    0
   Keywords    0x8000000000000000
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           [ ThreadID]    1396
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Windows Boot Manager
identifier              {bootmgr}
device                  partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume1
path                    \bootmgr
description             Windows Boot Manager
locale                  en-GB
default                 {current}
resumeobject            {37225af7-cc62-11e3-8277-806e6f6e6963}
displayorder            {current}
                        {3ce506e4-cc90-11e3-8b9f-8a809d5a6432}
timeout                 30
Windows Boot Loader
identifier              {current}
device                  partition=C:
path                    \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description             Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center
locale                  en-GB
recoverysequence        {3ce506df-cc90-11e3-8b9f-8a809d5a6432}
recoveryenabled         Yes
osdevice                partition=C:
systemroot              \Windows
resumeobject            {37225af7-cc62-11e3-8277-806e6f6e6963}
bootmenupolicy          Legacy
hypervisorlaunchtype    Auto
quietboot               No
Real-mode Boot Sector
identifier              {3ce506e4-cc90-11e3-8b9f-8a809d5a6432}
device                  partition=C:
path                    \Hd0Par3.pbr
description             Ubuntu LTS 14.04
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icacls "c:\CentOS65\CentOS65" /grant "CREATOR OWNER":(OI)(CI)(IO)F
icacls "c:\CentOS65\CentOS65" /grant "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM":(OI)(CI)F
icacls "c:\CentOS65\CentOS65" /grant "NT VIRTUAL MACHINE\Virtual Machines":(RC,S,GR,RD,WD,AD,REA,RA)
icacls "c:\CentOS65\CentOS65" /grant "NT VIRTUAL MACHINE\Virtual Machines":(CI)(IO)(GR,WD,AD)
icacls "c:\CentOS65\CentOS65\Virtual Hard Disks" /grant "NT VIRTUAL MACHINE\Virtual Machines":(RC,S,GR,RD,WD,AD,REA,RA)
icacls "c:\CentOS65\CentOS65\Virtual Hard Disks" /grant "NT VIRTUAL MACHINE\Virtual Machines":(CI)(IO)(GR,WD,AD)
icacls "C:\CentOS65\CentOS65\Virtual Hard Disks\CentOSHome.vhdx" /grant "NT VIRTUAL MACHINE\9EF5529D-3755-40B3-AC6A-325A564D19BB":(RC,S,GR,GW,RD,WD,AD,REA,WEA,RA,WA)
icacls "C:\CentOS65\CentOS65\Virtual Hard Disks\CentOS65.vhdx" /grant "NT VIRTUAL MACHINE\9EF5529D-3755-40B3-AC6A-325A564D19BB":(RC,S,GR,GW,RD,WD,AD,REA,WEA,RA,WA)
icacls "C:\CentOS65\CentOS65\Virtual Hard Disks\CentOSHome_9E7FEF2E-85E0-4278-AABD-01D5E45EE643.avhdx" /grant "NT VIRTUAL MACHINE\9EF5529D-3755-40B3-AC6A-325A564D19BB":(RC,S,GR,GW,RD,WD,AD,REA,WEA,RA,WA)
icacls "C:\CentOS65\CentOS65\Virtual Hard Disks\CentOS65_28FF0E50-0FBA-4754-A4CC-B3DAEC7E3DAA.avhdx" /grant "NT VIRTUAL MACHINE\9EF5529D-3755-40B3-AC6A-325A564D19BB":(RC,S,GR,GW,RD,WD,AD,REA,WEA,RA,WA)
icacls "C:\CentOS65\CentOS65\Virtual Hard Disks\CentOSHome.vhdx" /grant "NT VIRTUAL MACHINE\9EF5529D-3755-40B3-AC6A-325A564D19BB":(RC,S,GR,GW,RD,WD,AD,REA,WEA,RA,WA)
icacls "C:\CentOS65\CentOS65\Virtual Hard Disks\CentOS65.vhdx" /grant "NT VIRTUAL MACHINE\9EF5529D-3755-40B3-AC6A-325A564D19BB":(RC,S,GR,GW,RD,WD,AD,REA,WEA,RA,WA)
icacls "C:\CentOS65\CentOS65\Virtual Hard Disks\CentOS65.vhdx" /grant "NT VIRTUAL MACHINE\9EF5529D-3755-40B3-AC6A-325A564D19BB":(F)
icacls "C:\CentOS65\CentOS65\Virtual Hard Disks\CentOSHome.vhdx" /grant "NT VIRTUAL MACHINE\9EF5529D-3755-40B3-AC6A-325A564D19BB":(F)
icacls "C:\CentOS65\CentOS65\Virtual Machines\9EF5529D-3755-40B3-AC6A-325A564D19BB.xml" /grant "NT VIRTUAL MACHINE\9EF5529D-3755-40B3-AC6A-325A564D19BB":(F)
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I have already run
sfc/ scannow
DISM
Already Tried disabling the antivirus
Upon using wbemtest and connecting to root\virtualization, I am able to click Enum Classes > Recursive
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/8669451c-772e-4bb4-91b0-9b089bf5c2cd/
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# NOTE: These can be set on a per share basis
; preserve case = no
; short preserve case = no
# Default case is normally upper case for all DOS files
; default case = lower
# Be very careful with case sensitivity - it can break things!
; case sensitive = no
#============================ Share Definitions ==============================
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = yes
writable = yes
# Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain Logons
; [netlogon]
; comment = Network Logon Service
; path = /home/netlogon
; guest ok = yes
; writable = no
; share modes = no
# Un-comment the following to provide a specific roving profile share
# the default is to use the user's home directory
;[Profiles]
; path = /home/profiles
; browseable = no
; guest ok = yes
# NOTE: If you have a BSD-style print system there is no need to
# specifically define each individual printer
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
guest ok = no
writable = no
printable = yes
[i]<everything else is commented out>[/i]
I have no windows machines so it's only my laptop and desktop both running linux that I need to connect to this. I have tried googling and searching these forums to no avail
Thanks for any help that can be offered
Mike

If I run the following (on the machine I'm trying to set up the share)
smbclient -L localhost -U%
I got the following output
Connection to localhost failed (Error NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED)
so I thought it might be something incorrect with the iptables side of things, however I haven't really touched that at all and it seems to look correct
iptables -nvL
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 667 packets, 79977 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 157 packets, 20724 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
So from my (very little) knowledge this appears correct (I think)... However it appears that something is blocking access somewhere.

Server Execution Failed

Everytime I open control panel, screen res, personilzation, windows media player, explorer, I get server execution failed explorer.exe I do not want to reset my computer. I am running Windows 8.1 64 bit.

Hi,
Have you make any change to your system before this problem occures?
In my opinion, this problem probably caused by malware, you can try to use AV app scan your system firstly to fix the problem.
Besides this, can you open Event Viewer? If you can, please check if it identify this events and post the detailed information here.
To be simple, you can try to use System restore to revert your system to a former normal time point for test to fix it.
If these method no use, please feel free let me know.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support

Backup Error "Server execution failed (0x80080005)"

Is there an answer to this problem yet?
Is there a correction to the underlying bug which "seems" to be that ownership of certain system files is being changed by the system? I only take that from some of the attempts at answers which seemed not to work. The last effective comment I
can find is that the bug is being investigated, but as the initial report was in 2010 and there is still no apparent answer, will there be one soon?
Have I missed something? Is the proper answer in a thread not covered by the above links?
I note that the backup system in Windows 8 seems to be a major revision. Has the Windows 7 backup system been abandoned?
Dave

Hi,
Regarding to the ownership, did you mean the owner for folder "System Volume Information" under system drive which was disscussed in this thread
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/29bd3fc9-9538-4d82-9b13-96263c4f2f73/starting-windows-7-backup-server-execution-failed0x80080005-?forum=windowsbackup
If you have already set the owner of the folder to "system" and give full permissions and issue presists. I suggest you return your system to a previous point if you have a restore point, check whether the issue persists.
In Windows 8, there is a option "Windows 7 File Recovery" in Control Panel\All Control Panel Items which has the same function as "Backup and Restore" in Windows 7.
Yolanda Zhu
TechNet Community Support

"server connect failed" error - CIT 400

Would appreciate some help with this one:
My CIT 400 handset does not seem to be able to connect to the base station. I get the error "server connect failed" when I try to sign in to Skype. No blue light flashing on the base station(during sign in or otherwise) either. Have tried resetting the base, resetting the handset, but no luck ...although the blue light on the base does flash once when it is reset. Any pointers please?

Hi! do you have a PSTN line or landline plug-in to the device? Can you receive landline calls from CIT400? You may also try to access the setup page for the device and check the skype configuration. Just enter the IP address of the device on your browser and use admin for the username an password. Check on the Skype page the status of your account. You may try different Skype account to check if it will work.

ERROR – SQL Server Login Failed, Error 11001

We have an application that uses MSDE as its ‘Back-end’.
It has been working fine for years. We have however had to recently re-build the Operating System on our own Server that it was running on.
Original O/S Environment
We used Windows Server 2008 r2, using
Hyper-V to run Windows Server 2003 so that we can use
MSDE to run our application.
We do not want to change to later versions of SQL Server Express as they no-longer support Replication.
NEW O/S Environment
When we re-built the Server we went for Windows Server 2008 r2, using
Hyper-V to run Windows 7 Enterprise so that we can use
MSDE to run our application.
We have used this setup many times before and know that MSDE runs quite happily under Windows 7.
Servers have been renamed
The real Windows Server 2008 r2 machine used to be called FILESERVER.
It is now called FILE-SERVER.
The virtual machine running our application was originally called GEMSERVER.
It is now called GEM-SERVER.
What’s happening on the Server
The application is running fine. We can access the underlying MDSE Database with SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Express without problem.
We can build a test ODBC Data Source and connect to the ‘SQL Server’ Database, again without problems.
What’s happening on the Client PC
The application does not connect. I get:
     An error occurred while connecting.
     [DBNETLIB]ConnectionOpen (Connect())SQL Server does not exist
     or access denied.
When I build a ODBC Data Source to test the Connection I get:
Microsoft SQL Server Login
Connection failed:
     SQLState: '01000'
     SQL Server Error: 11001
     [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][TCP/IP Sockets]ConnectionOpen
     (Connect()).
     Connection failed:
     SQLState: '08001'
     SQL Server Error: 6
     [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][TCP/IP Sockets]Specified SQL
     server not found
I can Ping GEM-SERVER from the Client PC without problems.
I have disabled Firewalls an Anti-Virus Software on both the GEM-SERVER and the Client PC – to no avail.
I’ve tried connecting with:
Named Pipes,
TCP/IP,
IP Address of GEM-SERVER – 192.168.16.122,
Using Specific Port 1433 in connection.
NONE of it worked. L
ANYBODY any ideas what to try next?

Here's the solution that we came up with to our own problem:
This problem was actually caused by a bug in our own Application.
For some reason when we restored our MDSE Database the correct SQL Server Access Protocols were not setup correctly. (It is designed to handle these setup issues for us and has done so previously.)
We still have to determine why it happened and rectify the problem within our Software.
However to correct the problem with our own 'Server' we had to manually:
Run netsvrcn.exe using command prompt as an Administrator on the ‘Server’ running the MSDE Database,
Enable TCP and NAMED PIPES protocol
Restart SQL Server instance
Exclude the ports SQL Server normally listens on, from the firewall using ‘Windows Firewall Advanced Security’ for both in-bound and out-bound rules:
1433 TCP port
1434 UDP port
We then tested the ODBC connection from client machine and found that it worked fine, as indeed did our application.
However we still have a residual problem.
For we cannot connect to our Server called GEM-SERVER using GEM-SERVER\GEMSQLSRVR we have had to use 192.168.16.122\GEMSQLSRVR.
We are not sure why. We obviously wish to use the machine’s name rather than its IP Address, as its IP Address is dynamically assigned by a DHCP server so may change in future.
Do I need to raise this remaining problem as a separate issue?

RFC Execution Failed - Error

Hi,
When I am trying to create MBO, RFC execution is failing. Error showing in Error log as below. SUP Version : 2.0.
java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to execute EISOperation.
                at com.sybase.uep.tooling.eis.BaseEISOperation.execute(BaseEISOperation.java:283)
                at com.sybase.uep.tooling.eis.BaseEISOperation.execute(BaseEISOperation.java:165)
                at com.sybase.uep.tooling.eis.SapEISOperationImpl.execute(SapEISOperationImpl.java:450)
                at com.sybase.uep.tooling.ui.dialogs.preview.ExecuteSection.getRecordSet(ExecuteSection.java:289)
                at com.sybase.uep.tooling.ui.dialogs.preview.ExecuteSection.access$300(ExecuteSection.java:75)
                at com.sybase.uep.tooling.ui.dialogs.preview.ExecuteSection$3.run(ExecuteSection.java:192)
                at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:121)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to execute JCA operation
                at com.sybase.vader.da.jca.JcaInteractionOperation.execute(JcaInteractionOperation.java:171)
                at com.sybase.vader.statistics.MonitoringOperation.execute(MonitoringOperation.java:65)
                at com.sybase.vader.service.interaction.PipelineCompositeInteractionOperation.execute(PipelineCompositeInteractionOperation.java:55)
                at com.sybase.uep.tooling.eis.BaseEISOperation.execute(BaseEISOperation.java:265)
                ... 6 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
                at com.sybase.vader.jca.sap.connector.cci.SapFunctionModuleDynamicMetadataMappedRecord.put(SapFunctionModuleDynamicMetadataMappedRecord.java:272)
                at com.sybase.vader.jca.sap.connector.cci.SapRootInteraction.execute(SapRootInteraction.java:100)
                at com.sybase.vader.da.jca.JcaInteractionOperation.execute(JcaInteractionOperation.java:145)
                ... 9 more
Help me ...

Hi,
did you try to switch to the advanced developer profile and to deactivate the result check ?
Best Regards,
Stefan
Edited by: Stefan Wawrzinek on Jan 11, 2012 12:10 PM

Windows 7 Media Player - Server execution failed

LOOK... I've tried "1. Click Start Button, type "cmd" in the search bar. The CMD icon will appear in the Start Menu."
"2. Right click the CMD icon and click "Run as administrator". Yeah right, The window that opened is a "User Account Control". It reads; Do
you want to allow the following program to make changes to to this computer?"
3. In the popup window, type the following command line and press Enter. There is NO PLACE TO TYPE ANYTHING IN. See Step 2.
I have a lot of Legal Video Evidence in/on this Computer... I can't afford to lose ANY of it.
I know it's going to take days to get an answer.

Log in as the Administrator.
Close Windows Media Player.
In the Start Search box type in:
services.msc and hit the Enter Key.
Scroll down to Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service (WMPNetworkSvc).
Click on Log On tab.
Change the log on to Local System account.
Click OK/Apply.
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