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Word Automation Services Issues
Been working with Nintex Workflows to create some document publishing workflows for one of my clients and ran into an issue with converting documents to PDF. Did a little research and found that the convert document func
· Jason Wong · 1 min read
- Service Application
- SharePoint
- SharePoint 2013
Hey Everyone,
Been working with Nintex Workflows to create some document publishing workflows for one of my clients and ran into an issue with converting documents to PDF. Did a little research and found that the convert document function in Nintex relies on the Word Automation Services of SharePoint.
I found that having the Word Automation Service configured and running did not work properly. Everytime I ran the workflow it would error out saying the document was not valid. Did a little research and the April 2012 Cumulative Update does not resolve this issue.
To fix this issue, I ran the following PowerShell script and the Word Automation services worked!
$sp = Get-SPServiceApplication | where {$_.TypeName.Equals(“Word Automation Services”)}
$sp.DisableSandbox = $true
$sp.Update()