I am working on some Active Directory tools for work so we can automate account creation, home directories, exchange mailboxes and other things.
As part of this I needed to create Exchange Mail boxes.
Now Microsoft has this article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313114 that is titled "How to create a mailbox-enabled recipient by using Visual C#" perfect, exactly what I needed.
But the article is a bit old but in general it is OK, the requirement is that the following must be installed.
Microsoft Exchange 2000 System Management Tools on the computer on which this code runs
We can assume that this also can mean the Microsoft Exchange 2003 System Management Tools?
I am trying to develop my code on Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit.
So I need the Exchange Management tools, so I go and find the Exchange Server CD and pop it in the drive, but when I want to install the tools I get a message saying it is not compatible with Windows Vista and I can not install, I can't even ignore the message and continue.
So Vista has been as far as I am concerned out since November 2006 ( to the coporate community at least), it is now almost September 2007.
So I should go back to Windows XP - wasn't that released in 2002, or maybe 2003 Server or 2003 Server R2 to do my development work?
This is a stupid problem for Microsoft - how hard is it to make their own products Vista Compatible or should I just want until we install Exchange 2007 at work and tell them no go until then!
No wonder the driver support from 3rd party vendors is so terrible when Microsoft do not even make their management tools compatible with Windows Vista.