由Powershell的VSTS代理运行的Excel由于未知原因而失败

Question

this will be weird run.

I'm setting up build process in our VSTS project. Everything works smoothly - the build process is supposed to execute powershell script. Powershell script is executed - but here is the problem.

The script creates Excel process and is supposed to open spreadsheet file. It fails with following error:

Microsoft Excel cannot access the file '-correct path-'. There are several possible
reasons:
 The file name or path does not exist.
 The file is being used by another program.
 The workbook you are trying to save has the same name as a currently open workbook.

Unofrtunately it doesn't make any sense as the file do exist, nobody is doing anything with the spreadsheet and the access is - well I wanted to be sure so everyone full control.

What's even more interesting is that during the build process I had open Process Monitor running - it recorded several accesses of the spreadsheet file by Excel process - but they all ended with "SCUCCESS" - nothing like "ACCESS DENIED".

I'm puzzled because it doesn't make sense. Additionally I can run the script from the user used by VSTS agent directly it there are no issues.

What possibly could interfere with the process?

Answer 1

For x64 machine,create the following directory: C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\config\\systemprofile\\Desktop

Make sure that the agent account has full access control for the C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\config\\ folder , C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\config\\systemprofile folder and C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\config\\systemprofile\\Desktop folder.

More details in: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dataaccesstechnologies/2012/12/19/error-microsoft-office-excel-cannot-access-the-file-while-accessing-microsoft-office-11-0-object-library-from-ssis/