>Hi everybody,
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>I'm wondering what are my options of using an SSIS package to read data from Excel without having Excel installed on the server? The package is executed as part of the job. Is there an easy way to convert Excel to csv (say, using Powershell script (but without Excel installed, so no COM automation)) or as a .NET script task?
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>Do you have ideas?
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>Thanks in advance.

>>NET script task?
I haven't done much with it, but C# using OpenXml can read a spreadsheet without Excel being present.