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Mail Profile creation without Outlook Client

  • January 6, 2005 at 12:44 pm

    #87425

    By looking at the following KB article you can set up SQL MAIL profiles without an Outlook Client.

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306962

    Has anyone every used this method to support creating SQL Mail profiles, without an outlook client?  If so what are the issues?

    Gregory A. Larsen, MVP

  • January 8, 2005 at 7:55 pm

    #536576

    Well, I just tried option 2 (Profman2.exe - MAPI Profile Manager v2.0) on a Windows Server 2003 SQL Server without Exchange or Outlook installed. The program profman.exe failed to create a new profile, but did not show or log any error message.

    I even tried doing a new build (though i am not a C++ programmer). When I ran the new build, the Debug output window said "MAPIInitialize() call failed!". Probably there is some prerequisite that I missed.

     

  • January 11, 2005 at 8:35 am

    #536827

    Thanks for trying this out.   If you figure out what went wrong please let us know.

    Gregory A. Larsen, MVP

  • April 18, 2005 at 4:34 am

    #553101

    "A common misconception is that a MAPI client (for example, Microsoft Outlook or the Exchange Client) must be installed on an Exchange Server in order to create MAPI profiles. Installing a MAPI client for this reason is unnecessary, and in the case of Outlook, is not recommended for production servers. As long as a MAPI subsystem is installed (and in the case of Exchange, there is), there is a variety of other ways to create MAPI profiles."

    Yes, you need to first have MAPI installed.

  • March 14, 2006 at 11:26 am

    #626612

    You can do this by installing the Exchange admin tools first, but you then have to tweak mapisvc.inf. I think that KB article is the one with the instructions.

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