import excel workbook

I have created a web application to open and read an excel spreadsheet. I found an example where I can Import [login to view URL] I'm writing on a Windows 7 Pro machine using Visual Studio 2012 The machine also has IIS 7.5 and MS Office 365 installed. My code works great in the debugger and when I publish to local File System and run in IIS (localhost) However, when I publish to our testing server (Windows Server 2008 r2) or our production server (Small Business Server 2011) it stops throws an exception right here: Try Dim excel As Application = CType(CreateObject("[login to view URL]"), [login to view URL]) Catch ex As Exception dim errString as string = [login to view URL] End Try errString is always: Cannot create ActiveX component I need this to work on both our testing machine and production machine. Things I've tried: I have opened Component Services>DCOM Config to set 'Launch and Activation Permissions' and 'Access Permissions'. I searched for 'Microsoft Excel' on the SBS server I found 'Microsoft Excel Application' and set local permissions for application pool identity the Windows Server 2008 has no such entry. Appication Pool Advanced Settings: on production server When I Enable 32-Bit Applications I get: HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. on testing server Enable 32-Bit Applications is set to true, I've tried both integrated and classic Managed Pipeline Modes Option 1: I need someone to demonstrate working code on a windows 2008 r2 server Or work by the hour to resolve my Interop issue(s). Option 2: I will pay you to: Provide a solution using VB.net and OpenXML to 1: Open a workbook 2: store the each sheet in a 2d array