How to determine whether Exchange is installed...

[LeeSalter]

I have a little application that will add a mailbox to an Exchange server.

My company has many servers (obviously) and two Exchange servers in particular.

I want a comob-box to list just the two exchange servers but want it to be dynamic so that it updates if more exchange servers are added to the network.

Does anybody know how to determine whether or not a server has exchange installed programmatically??

[Ideas Man]

This should be posted in either the Classic Visual Basic forum or the Visual Basic .NET forum (depending on the language you are using). You'll get better responses there.

[plenderj]

There are Net enumeration APIs that you can use under NT based OSes, but I don't think they return Exchange servers. Just Windows and SQL Servers I believe.

Ahhh I know. This is how to do it. Enumerate all NT based servers on the network - then connect on port 25 to that server, and if the connection is received and the initial hello is that from Exchange, you know that server is running Exchange