Word 2010 spawns multiple processes - anyone else seen this before?

bsambrone · 2012-05-25T02:08:53.692585+00:00

Yeah, pretty much. I saw a bunch of commented out lines with their developers saying stuff only sometimes works.

bsambrone · 2012-05-25T00:42:28.892362+00:00

Nothing in IE compatibility seems to help, but I haven't tried putting it in IE7 compatibility mode if that's even possible? This plugin has a .dot file that I can see the VBA code in. I might just hack something together where if it finds an orphan process it kills it.

bsambrone · 2012-05-24T14:39:04.411652+00:00

These are exactly the things I wish I could do. Their entire workflow is dependent on this plugin. When I remove it just for fun, I can't get the problem to reoccur but it is a different test environment then. I can't open docs from their website without this plugin. FF and Chrome won't even launch the site. It's strange how IE8 works better than IE9, but not completely so. That tells me it at least in part is browser related? So far my fix has been to tell people to 'click slowly', which doesn't always go over well with end users.

bsambrone · 2012-05-24T13:37:58.427130+00:00

It's the generic app crash type of event when an Office app dies. I've also looked to see if there is anything that would indicate why multiple WINWORD processes started in the first place, but found nothing. I'm leaning toward it being an add-in issue with NetDocs, but another client of ours has a similar issue with their web based document system. Also using IE8 / Win7 / Word 2010 where multiple WINWORD processes will occasionally show up. Clicking turbo fast seems to usually cause it, but other times it just happens.

bsambrone · 1 day

Thanks - this thing has been plaguing me for almost 2 months now.

gurboura · 1 day

They should be running 2008, but I run into a lot of 2003 servers out in the wild. If you learn 2008, you will be good. The same principles apply to 2003, and once you know the concepts of doing stuff (like adding a user to an OU in ActiveDirectory), then finding where the editors are for 2003 is a simple google search away.

Workstations are mixed, with most of our clients on Win 7 now. Some business apps only work on XP, but that's becoming less of a problem as vendors release updates. I've never had to support Linux on a workstation, and I don't think that's common. In the server environment I see it most as Apache web servers running a LAMP stack.

If you're going to pick a direction to learn IT, I would advise Microsoft. The reason for this is that there is a GUI for quite a bit of it. Once you feel fine in the GUI, then use command line. To my knowledge, and I could be very wrong here, Linux server administration is strictly command line which isn't as inviting to someone starting out. That, and just about every big enterprise uses Microsoft's implementation of Active Directory.

gurboura · 1 day

In the company I work for, we use Microsoft server OS's. 98% of our clients are the same, and all the workstations use some flavor of Windows as well. That said, there is a strong Linux presence out there too.

gurboura · 1 day

Grab a free copy of VirtualBox and set up some Server 2008R2 VM's. Make one a domain controller, and have the other one do something like host a sample website. Getting a good foundation in Active Directory will really help, and setting up your own AD domain is a good way to start the process. DangerChips mentioned using an imaginary company and adding new users and stuff, and that is a really good idea.

Cryson · 1 day

I've deployed a Spector 360 setup before, but it might be overkill for what you need. It can track ANYTHING users do. Depending on how many users there are, you can get away with a single server with some decent I/O. I haven't looked at their cheaper options, but I had a good experience setting up this software for my client (it was easy) and their support is good if you hit a snag during install.

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