Access COM issue, I think...

[Jay]

I have a third-party Access/MDE split back-end application which is giving me
fits in a new deployment, but I do not think it is the MDE or the MDB that
has the problem. Underneath it all it is an OS problem. We are using
Parallels Virtuozzo Containers to build a Windows Server 2003 Datacenter (x86
w/PAE) environment for VDI PVC containers. This third-party app requires
Office 2003 and we have created a full-blown application template for a
complete install of the product, patched at SP3 plus all the hotfixes. I have
actually verified the same behavior in both Access 2003 and 2007. Here's how
it goes:

Install OS, patch. OK
Install Office 2003 Professional SP2 from VL media, full install, local
cache. OK
Patch Office 2003 to SP3+ current hotfixes OK.
Validate application by running MDE front end. OK. No problem.
Join Computer to domain to an OU with all GP inheritance blocked.
Validate application. Crash. "Access has encountered a problem..."
Run Access. OK
In Access, run Linked Table Manager or Add-In Manager. Crash. "Access has
encountered a problem..."

Something is chenging when the machine is being joined to the domain even
though policy inheritance is entirely blocked. I am having a very hard time
nailing it down. Anybody got any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[david]

Just to be clear, after you have joined the domain, do you
continue to use the Local User account? Or are you switching
to a Domain User account after you join the domain?

 

[Jay]

David:

Either way. Using the local administrator account or any domain account
including the domain administrator.

 

[david]

Well, I'm out.

The only easy thing left I can think of is drive-letter re-arrangement.

Lots of things change when you join a domain, but none of them should break
Office.

I'd concentrate on your own application references first - you
can check them in an autoexec macro. The problems with the
linked table manager and the add-in manager are just as likely
to be caused by a reference failure as the other way around.

(david)