*NOTE:* This will render Excel almost inoperable on this machine for any interactive users. Also, this has only been tested on Vista; the requirements of any future or past versions of Windows may differ slightly. +*NOTE:* If your jobs run as specific users on machines and those users are in the Administrators group the DCOM changes are unnecessary. - ichesal + +{subsubsection: Windows 2008 Server} + +In addition to the above DCOM changes it appears that jobs that run under the non-visible desktops in Windows 2008 Server (and possibly Win7 and beyond) need some changes to the default environment their given when the desktop is created. Base on {link: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/innovateonoffice/thread/b81a3c4e-62db-488b-af06-44421818ef91 this article}, you need to create the following directories on your machine to get Excel jobs to function properly. + +*Windows 2008 Server 64-Bit* + + C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\Desktop + +*Windows 2008 Server 32-Bit* + + C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\Desktop + +No restart of the machine or Condor is required after making the appropriate directory. + + + {subsection: Example} ====