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Gary Wardell - 17 Apr 2007 14:40 GMT

Hi,

We just migrated from an NT 4 domain to Active Directory. (Yes I not we're
not an early adopter ;-)

After the migration we get the following error when compiling every VB 6
COM+ DLL.

"Error accessing the system registry"

We don't get this error if we compile them under an account that is a member
of the "Domain Admins" group.

Since it's not a good practice to use an admin account for general work;
what is wrong?

I can't seem to find any thing relevant in the KB. About the closest thing
is an article about a permissions problem listing project references.
however, the project references list fine, this error only occurs during the
compile.

Gary

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Jan Hyde (VB MVP) - 17 Apr 2007 15:11 GMT

"Gary Wardell" <nospam@sample.com>'s wild thoughts were
released on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:40:34 -0400 bearing the
following fruit:

>Hi,
>
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>
>Since it's not a good practice to use an admin account for general work;

But essential for compiling.....

J

>what is wrong?

>I can't seem to find any thing relevant in the KB. About the closest thing
>is an article about a permissions problem listing project references.
>however, the project references list fine, this error only occurs during the
>compile.
>
>Gary

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Gary Wardell - 17 Apr 2007 16:35 GMT

> >Since it's not a good practice to use an admin account for general work;
>
> But essential for compiling.....
>
> J

So you are saying this is normal behavior, and necessary??

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Jan Hyde (VB MVP) - 17 Apr 2007 17:02 GMT

"Gary Wardell" <nospam@sample.com>'s wild thoughts were
released on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:35:05 -0400 bearing the
following fruit:

>> >Since it's not a good practice to use an admin account for general work;
>>
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>
>So you are saying this is normal behavior, and necessary??

Yep.

Part of compiling is registering the component and you need
access to parts of the registy that would be restricted for
normal users but not for admin users.

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