Random Stuff About Software » Vista http://patricksheedy.net/softwareblog Tips that might be useful Tue, 05 May 2009 03:56:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Outlook Automation Error When Connecting From Elevated Prompt http://patricksheedy.net/softwareblog/2008/01/16/outlook-automation-error-when-connecting-from-elevated-prompt/ http://patricksheedy.net/softwareblog/2008/01/16/outlook-automation-error-when-connecting-from-elevated-prompt/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:50:40 +0000 Patrick http://patricksheedy.net/softwareblog/2008/01/16/outlook-automation-error-when-connecting-from-elevated-prompt/ One thing I didn’t realize until the other day is that a Vista command prompt that is elevated is unable to control Outlook. I was testing some JScript code from an elevated prompt and got this error:

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C:\Users\psheed\SendMail.js(1, 1) Microsoft JScript runtime error: Automation server can't create object

Unfortunately the error message isn’t very helpful in diagnosing the problem. After trying a few things I eventually found out that the script would work fine if it was running from a non-elevated prompt. Now it makes sense, you can’t use code that is running elevated to control non-elevated code for security reasons.

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