Automation server can't create object

Prafulla Sahu

Hi,

I am having a classic asp web site, classic asp pages containing server side javascript codes.

When I am trying to access the web site it's throwing an error i.e. "Automation server can't create object". After encountered with this error if I am recycling the app pool the error is going away. So whenever the error is coming I am doing app pool recycle and this issue is happening acoross all the users not specific to a single system.

I found some suggestion i.e for browser specific but this issue is not browser specific then I saw some code which is causing the issue.

In Code many places I saw something like below

Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.FreeThreadedDOMDocument.6.0") and

var Excel = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0");

may be this is causing the issue.

Any suggestions how to get rid from this issue??

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Prafulla Sahu9y ago
Thank you manas for quick reply, this is an inconsistent issue and the issue is going away whenever we are recycling app pool. This issue coming once in a day, it's not depend upon browser setting because if it would rely on on browser setting then it would not have processed at all.
Manas Mohapatra9y ago
It is mostly you are using Internet Explorer(IE) to browse your application. If IE has less secure settings, it won't allow to run Activex object. So you are encountering error. To resolve issue, you need to add site as trusted site. Follow below links:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5157183/activex-automation-server-cant-create-object

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15686040/ie9-automation-server-cant-create-object-error-while-using-certenroll-dll