Thread: Microsoft office object

creating an object of Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application and initializing gives the error :
Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {000209FF-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} failed due to the following error: 80070005.

It works fine in my pc, but when hosted on server, it gives the error at
New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application.

the dll referenced is Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application 12 and the server has office 2007

Considerations for server-side Automation of Office

Microsoft does not recommend or support server-side Automation of Office.

What are you actually trying to do? We have a project in my office at the moment where we wanted to be able to generate Office documents from a server application. We didn't want to install Office so we used Open XML.

Introducing the Office (2007) Open XML File Formats

My objective is to convert doc and docx files to tiff, for sending as fax.

Can't you just do that through the Microsoft Office Document Imaging print queue or whatever its called, print any file to Tiff?