Office automation (Interop) on Windows Server 2012

Question

I\'m successfully using Office automation on Windows Server 2008 R2 with Office 2007 in order to convert Office documents to PDFs. The code is rather simple:

Answer 1

The only solution found is to make the process that invokes Office API to run as interactive. It can be done by just running a console app (not the brightest idea for server solutions) or by creating some background service (e.g., windows service) and set it's station (SetProcessWindowStation).