Question

I have created ssis package to loda data from excel to database. My problem is Those excel files proteced with password( I know the password) at the minute i am removing password mannually. Is there any way to automate in ssis, Because i have 200 excel files.

Answer 1

This may or may not work based on your company’s security policy (or monitoring thereof), but you could write a quick macro that opens all 200 files and saves them in a temp “unprotected” directory without a password. Then run your SSIS script, and when that completes, delete all 200 files (with a secure deleter such as Eraser)

Sub ManagePWords()

Dim f(1 To 200) As Variant
Dim i As Integer
Dim origpath As String, temppath As String
Dim wb As Excel.Workbook

   origpath = "c:\where_files_are_now\"
   temppath = "c:\where_files_are_now\unprotected\"

   f(1) = Array("filename1", "password1")
   f(2) = Array("filename2", "password2")
   'keep going for all 200 files

   For i = 1 To UBound(f)
      Set wb = Application.Workbooks.Open(origpath & f(i)(0), , , , f(i)(1))
      wb.SaveAs temppath & f(i)(0) & ".xlsx", , ""
      wb.Close
   Next i

End Sub