Exchange Management Tools
Most of the scripts in this chapter require that the Exchange Management Tools from the Exchange media are loaded. Specifically, many will need the Collaboration Data Objects for Exchange Management (CDOEXM) installed and registered, and those are only installed with the Exchange Management Tools. Although it is possible to load and register the specific DLLs involved, Microsoft does not support that configuration. Additionally, Microsoft does not support loading Outlook and the Exchange Management Tools on the same machine, though they generally interact just fine.
Warning
The primary issue that has been publicly reported when running Outlook and the Exchange Management Tools on the same machine is profile switching in Outlook when Exchange System Manager (ESM) is running. The solution is to simply close out Outlook and ESM, and then you can restart Outlook and choose the alternate profile. If you wish to relaunch ESM then, that will work fine as well.
For more details on the Microsoft guideline, see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article Q266418.
Installation of the tools for most Windows operating systems requires Internet Information Services (IIS), World Wide Web (WWW) service, Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) service, and the appropriate Admin Pack to be installed on the machine. Windows XP SP2 has eased this requirement to only needing IIS and the Windows Server 2003 Admin Pack. Once the tools are loaded, these requirements can be removed because ...