Powershell cannot create Outlook COM object from Command Prompt

Question

I have a script used to send mails via Microsoft Outlook from command prompt. This works fine if I run it from inside PowerShell or ISE console. But when I tried to execute

Answer 1

CO_E_SERVER_EXEC_FAILURE in case of Outlook means the calling app and the COM server are running in different security contexts. If the command prompt is running with elevated privileges, either make sure Outlook is started with elevated privileges as well or that it does not run at all when your code is executed - this way Outlook will be started by your code and it will run with the same elevated privileges.