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ColeRiese
Apr 14, 2023Copper Contributor
PowerShell - ActiveX Control Error
Greetings, We have a script that connects to Exchange Online. The first time we run the script, it kicks back this error: "ActiveX control '8856f961-340a-11d0-a96b-00c04fd705a2' cannot be instantiat...
- Apr 24, 2023
ColeRiese Does your script utilize any forms? (e.g. $form1 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form)
I just got done going through this and was finally able to work around it. It is my understanding that there is a bug in newer versions of the Exchange Online module. If you are using any sort of forms in your script and those forms are called before you connect to Exchange Online it generates the error. If you connect to Exchange Online first, then the form is called, there is no issue.
I had to tweak our script to connect to Exchange Online first, then add a prefix to our on-prem exchange session to prevent any conflicts. Here are a couple links I found during my search that helped me track down the issue.
https://twitter.com/DanielSjoegren/status/1406954671248396292
https://www.sapien.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15297
https://www.sapien.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16213&sid=b1fcd3f71b3ada945eeb75f4dbc4490f&start=10
Hope this helps!
Pete_Martin
Apr 24, 2023Copper Contributor
ColeRiese Does your script utilize any forms? (e.g. $form1 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form)
I just got done going through this and was finally able to work around it. It is my understanding that there is a bug in newer versions of the Exchange Online module. If you are using any sort of forms in your script and those forms are called before you connect to Exchange Online it generates the error. If you connect to Exchange Online first, then the form is called, there is no issue.
I had to tweak our script to connect to Exchange Online first, then add a prefix to our on-prem exchange session to prevent any conflicts. Here are a couple links I found during my search that helped me track down the issue.
https://twitter.com/DanielSjoegren/status/1406954671248396292
https://www.sapien.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15297
https://www.sapien.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16213&sid=b1fcd3f71b3ada945eeb75f4dbc4490f&start=10
Hope this helps!
ColeRiese
Apr 25, 2023Copper Contributor
Thank you Pete! That seemed to do it!
- Pete_MartinApr 26, 2023Copper Contributor
Great! Glad that worked!
- GoNolesDec 13, 2023Copper Contributor
Pete_Martin I am also getting this error but I am not running a script, I simply did a connect-exchangeonline with my UPN and it gave me this error. I am in an admin powershell window that is new, I have only imported the module and updated get-help.