Install Openoffice as a windows service

• Download and install openoffice
• run openoffice once before installing it as a service
• Download and install windows 2003 resource kit from microsoft website.
• Create a service account and give it log on as a service rights ( i used openoffice as service account name)
• Create a service named OpenOfficeUnoServer to do so run the following command “C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\Instsrv.exe” OpenOfficeUnoServer “C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\Srvany.exe”
• Go to services snap in and change the log on account with the account you created in step 4.
• Open registry and configure the values as shown in the screen shot shown below:

Create parameters key and make sure the values match as shown below. You have to create Application and AppParameters REG_SZ values.

Start Service

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  Open command prompt and change directory to c:\program files\openoffice.org 3\program
  
  
  
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  Run the following command
  
  
  
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  soffice -accept=”socket,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager”
  
  
  
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  Run netstat -anp tcp
  
  
  
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  This should show a listening on port 8100.Chances are that the service will only listen on the 127.0.0.1 interface; this means you can only connect from the same machine and it’s good from a security point of view. However, if you want to be able to connect from other machines as well you need to change the accept string to "socket,host=0.0.0.0,port=8100;urp;" in the AppParameters registry value