Accessing Office Word object model through asp.net results in “failed due to the following error: 80070005 Access is denied.”

Question

I have developed a website that allows users to upload office documents then uses the office object model to convert the document to an HTML file that it then displays in an

Answer 1

In addition to the above, I encountered an issue that I thought I'd share in case other people run into it as well.

The application pool user of my .net app that was using interop was added to Admin but did not take effect due to iis caching environment. After performing the above in addition to an iisreset to reflect proper admin status of the app pool user, everything worked fine.