Comments on: Changing Server Names in Excel 2007 Embedded Workbook Connections

By: Mick

Mick — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:10:23 +0000

Thanks Tim nice handy bit of code saved changing the 4.5k connections inside my Excel document. The only issue I had with this was the connection type. The Excel document that I was working with had ODBC connections so I had to change from OLEDBConnection to ODBCConnection. Maybe this could be an addition to work out the connection type objConnection.Type?

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:20:29 +0000

You cut and paste it in to a file called something like updateExcelConnections.vbs and then run the VBS file (it will execute using your default script host – which is usually wscript.exe). We ran this across various shared drives and against a SharePoint repository as well (all the Excel documents MUST be checked in).

The only place we had to manually update connection strings was for Excel documents stored in SSRS.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:11:54 +0000

Seems very interesting! But how do you execute this script?

Thanks!