Microsoft Exchange CDOEX in a clustered environment.

Question

We have a VS2005 native C++ application which connects to Exchange server using CDOEX and CDOEXM to create and modify calendar entries for multiple user folders. It's a command line utility which must be installed on the same server where the exchange server is installed. What is the correct procedure to use this utility in a clustered environment? Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Might I suggest you take a look at. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373130%28VS.85%29.aspx for general information on how failover clustering works. But I would also like to point out that going forward ( ie exchange 2007 , 2010) you don't get CDOEXM. And Instead you will have to find some way of integrating with powershell instead. There are classes to explicitly run powershell scripting from inside a program, but they are C# so you either migrate all your code to C# or use some bastardized blend of IJW.