Exchange System Manager (2003) for Windows Vista/2008

Exchange System Manager for Exchange Server 2003 running on the Windows Vista operating system.

Known Issues
SMTP current session node is not supported (SMTPadmin.dll cannot be registered).
NNTP property view is not supported (NNTPadmin.dll cannot be registered).
Installing Exchange System Manager on the same computer as Microsoft Office Outlook is not supported, because MAPI CDO cannot be installed.

You may encounter the following issues during uninstall:
If Exchange System Manager is open during the uninstall process, Microsoft Management Console (MMC) is likely to crash. To resolve this, manually close the Exchange System Manager.
If the MAPI CDO package was uninstalled manually before uninstalling the Exchange System Manager, a runtime error may appear. This error can be ignored and the uninstall process will complete successfully.

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Posted by Aaron Tiensivu in Exchange, Vista, Windows OS at 21:33 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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Your post states vista and server 2008.

Vista works fine, but failes on 2008.

Grumbles about needing vista to work.

Cheers
Jason

#1 Jason Whitaker (Homepage) on 2008-08-18 03:28 (Reply)

It looks like I will have to revise my post to omit Server 2008 support unfortunately.

#1.1 Aaron Tiensivu (Homepage) on 2008-08-18 10:45 (Reply)

I have a question. Since Outlook installs a MAPI client for Exchange, and you can install the CDO on vista, why cant you install this on the same machine as outlook?

#2 Nick Daniels on 2008-08-27 10:08 (Reply)

You can install it by adding this key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\ExchangeMAPI
and adding a string value DLLPathEx, which I set to Outlook's DLLPathEx value.

#2.1 Nick Daniels on 2008-08-27 10:41 (Reply)

I should also add you'll need to remove this before starting outlook again. Outlook won't start otherwise

#2.1.1 Nick Daniels on 2008-08-28 08:16 (Reply)

Nick and Google are my heroes. Why is it that Microsoft can't publish (or better: avoid) those kinds of things?

Thanks!

#2.1.1.1 Joerg (Homepage) on 2008-09-11 17:00 (Reply)

I think the reason is that there must be some incompatibility issue here. Microsoft is probably avoiding it by requiring that a specific MAPI client is installed.
If you user base was as large as theirs you'd find compatibility to be a bitch as well.

#2.1.1.1.1 Nick Daniels on 2008-09-15 08:45 (Reply)

Just for the record, this fix also seems to work for Vista Business 64bit, only the values are in a slightly different location.

In the registry, I found \HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Nod\Clients\Mail\Microsoft Outlook\DLLPathEx, which for me had a value of:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\SYSTEM\MSMAPI\1033\msmapi32.dll

I then went up and created a new key called ExchangeMAPI at \HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Nod\Clients\Mail\. Next I created a new String Value called DLLPathEx inside the ExchangeMAPI key and copied the above "C:\Program Files (x86)\Comm..." into that value.

I was able to install the EMC console, and it put the plugins for the Active Directory Users and Computers, so that I can manage mailboxes as well.

I didn't have a problem launching Outlook even after leaving the registry change in place. Once the EMC was installed, it didn't seem to care either way so I deleted the ExchangeMAPI key just in case.

#2.1.2 Zack on 2008-12-26 12:44 (Reply)

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