OneNote bug? - Exception calling "Publish" with "4" argument(s): "The remote procedure call failed. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BE)

[hoodncsu]

Bug

Process halts and returns error. See: CovertOneNote2MarkDown.error.log

Expectation

Successful export

Discussion

• Many pages successfully converted before failure
• Attempting to export manually through the OneNote UI results in an app crash, thus possible OneNote bug
• Reproduced with two different OneNote pages in different Notebooks
• Both pages contained only images
• Dryrun ran successfully
• Expand all Paragraphs in Notebook.xml ran prior

Environment

Fairly recent re-install of Windows 10 Pro, Office installed with 365 license and unused prior to conversion effort.
Windows 10 Pro Version 21H1 (OS Build 19043.1348)
OneNote for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2111 Build 16.0.14701.20206) 64-bit

$dryRun = 1
$notesdestpath = 'c:\temp\work\notes'
$targetNotebook = 'Ryan @ Quantworks'
$usedocx = 1
$keepdocx = 2
$docxNamingConvention = 1
$prefixFolders = 1
$mdFileNameAndFolderNameMaxLength = 128
$medialocation = 1
$conversion = 'markdown-simple_tables-multiline_tables-grid_tables+pipe_tables'
$headerTimestampEnabled = 1
$keepspaces = 1
$keepescape = 1
$newlineCharacter = 1
$exportPdf = 1

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      5.1.19041.1320
PSEdition                      Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion                   10.0.19041.1320
CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion              3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1

Next steps for debugging

1. Isolate page into separate notebook for testing
2. Add text to page
3. Reproduce on another Windows installation

[hoodncsu]

Interesting findings with additional testing:

Condition	Outcome
Copy page to new notebook	Success
Copy section to new notebook	Failed
Copy all pages in section to new section	Success
Rename existing section	Failed
Create a new section with same name, copy pages to it	Success

I can only assume that there is something corrupt in the section that is not visible in the UI.

tl;dr Create a new section, copy pages into it, run the script again.

[jcolson]

thanks for the hint on how to fix this issue (tl;dr) ... !

[claws99]

Even I am getting the same error. Seeing the tl;dr, I created a dummy onenote doc called temp and ran the script over it. Still getting this error:

PS C:\Users\HP\Documents\ConvertOneNote2MarkDown> .\ConvertOneNote2MarkDown-v2.ps1
Configuration:
dryRun: 1
notesdestpath: C:\Users\HP\Documents\onenote-ps-export
targetNotebook: temp
usedocx: 1
keepdocx: 1
docxNamingConvention: 2
prefixFolders: 1
mdFileNameAndFolderNameMaxLength: 32
medialocation: 2
conversion: markdown-simple_tables-multiline_tables-grid_tables+pipe_tables
headerTimestampEnabled: 1
keepspaces: 1
keepescape: 1
newlineCharacter: 1
exportPdf: 1

Notebooks to convert:
temp

Converting notebook 'temp'... (Ignoring deleted notes)

Building conversion configuration for temp [Notebook]
# Building conversion configuration for New Section 1 [Section]
## Building conversion configuration for Untitled page [Page]
## Untitled page [Page]
Failed to convert page: New-Section-1\Untitled-page. Reason: Error while publishing page to docx file C:\Users\HP\Documents\onenote-ps-export\temp\docx\New-Section-1-Untitled-page.docx: Exception calling "Publish" with "4" argument(s): "Class not registered

Class not registered
"
Convert-OneNotePage : Failed to convert page: New-Section-1\Untitled-page. Reason: Error while publishing page to docx
file C:\Users\HP\Documents\onenote-ps-export\temp\docx\New-Section-1-Untitled-page.docx: Exception calling "Publish"
with "4" argument(s): "Class not registered
Class not registered
"
At C:\Users\HP\Documents\ConvertOneNote2MarkDown\ConvertOneNote2MarkDown-v2.ps1:1387 char:257
+ ... onConfigs | Convert-OneNotePage -OneNoteConnection $OneNote -Config $ ...
+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Write-Error], WriteErrorException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorException,Convert-OneNotePage


Done converting notebook 'temp' with 1 notes.
Cleaning up...
Conversion errors:
Failed to convert page: New-Section-1\Untitled-page. Reason: Error while publishing page to docx file C:\Users\HP\Documents\onenote-ps-export\temp\docx\New-Section-1-Untitled-page.docx: Exception calling "Publish" with "4" argument(s): "Class not registered

Class not registered
"
Exiting.

[ViridityCorn]

I am recieving the exact same error as @kishorekumarxyz, with the error occurring at the exact place.

EDIT: I just fixed the issue by making sure Microsoft Word was installed and opened as adminsitrator. This worked for me.

[jdustinlewis]

I had a similar error (but with code 0x80042006). The cause was I was using a relative path for my $notesdestpath. Changed from '.\notes' to the full path and it worked.

[eGregiousGames]

I'm getting the "Exception calling "Publish" with "4" argument(s): "Class not registered"" error. Have got OneNote and Office both opened as admin, with a Word window open, and am opening Powershell as admin too. Have tried creating a whole new test section and even that's not getting through.

[leojonathanoh]

@eGregiousGames yours doesn't seem related to this issue, see #101 (comment) and #101 (comment) which may help.

[imadjamil]

I know this is closed, but for future readers, I succeded to resolve this just by changing the order of pages in the section in question (i moved the first page down) !