使用在 Windows Server 2008 上运行的 C# 在 Exchange 2003 中创建邮箱

Question

I'm getting desperate so was hoping someone could help. We've re-written an old VB app that uses CDOEXM to create mailboxes in Exchange 2003. The new C# code is very similar and looks like this:

        CDOEXM.IMailboxStore mailbox;
        mailbox = (IMailboxStore)user.NativeObject;
        mailbox.CreateMailbox(homeMDB);
        user.CommitChanges();

The server running the code needed to have Exchange Management Tools installed for it to work (that installs the CDOEXM libraries that we require)

This works fine on XP, but we're also moving to Windows 2008 64bit servers, and I have been unable to install Exchange Management Tools on here because it says there's a compatibility issue.

Can anyone recommend a way around this? As I said, we're getting desperate because this is going to prevent a production release if we can't solve it, so would really appreciate some help.

Thanks

EDIT: incidentally I manually registered the CDOEXM dlls as a bit of a bodge, and I now get this error:

Problem creating mailboxSystem.ArgumentException: Value does not fall within the expected range. at CDOEXM.IMailboxStore.CreateMailbox(String HomeMDBURL)

The homeMDBURL I am using is a valid one as far as I can tell though

Answer 1

I don't think CDOEXM is supported on Windows 2008. What about having a Windows 2003 Server around which hosts a WebService that does the mailbox creation stuff?

Another option is to create the mailbox without using CDOEXM. Note that this approach is totally unsupported by Microsoft. But if you populate enough properties (I don't know them all out of my head) like homeMDB and others, the Recipient Update Service (RUS) will create the mailbox on its next run. If I recall it correctly, the RUS runs every two minutes by default.

Btw, you did run your C# program as a 32bit process, right?