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I have an EC2 instance with Windows Server 2012 R2 with all the latest updates.

I made a service at first, and then a task to run a batch file to create a Microsoft Word report (using my custom C# program). I set the task to run with highest privileges and to be run as Administrator. While my batch file does get called, it fails. My batch file:

C:/WordGenerator.exe C:/report.docx > C:/word.log 2>&1

It errors out with an exception from the exe:

Failure
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
    at InteropFunctions.Save(String opath)
    at Reporting.Report.generate()
    at Reporting.WordGenerator.run()

If I run the batch file manually, it finishes fine.

The above exception occurs when C# Word interop function tries to open a made report for further processing (so it effectively doesn't have permissions - can't find it).

  1. What I learned so far it that Windows may still run all services as the LOCAL SYSTEM account, and logs in to the given user (if any) on the fly.

  2. I also learned that services may run in a different sessions/security context as regular Administrator commands.

Can anyone help find a solution that works? I need to run a batch file on startup as Administrator (without login). I willing to go as far as simulating a login. We are experiencing other issues due to this not really being run as Administrator (what I gave was a simple case). Pictures for setup:

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  • Looks like either path or permissions.
    – mdpc
    Sep 20, 2014 at 1:52
  • Thank you for -1 whoever, suggestions to question are appreciated. @mdpc It is not the path, in the exe I did fileExists? -> true. Yes, it is permissions. But as you see, it is run as the only user account - Administrator.
    – jn1kk
    Sep 20, 2014 at 1:57

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The reason why this was failing was because of DCOM in Windows. I set mine to run as Administrator (in Identity) section.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/11359745/234307

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