Connecting to users local Outlook

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KariP

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Hi,
our server is a Windows 2008R2 server, with no Microsoft Office tools installed. Each of the users do have their own version of Outlook installed. We have an application that uses OLE automation to connect to Outlook and open Outlooks "New email" window. On a local Windows pc (7,10) this works fine.
When installing the application to the server and running it from the client using Parallels 2X client, there is an error message "Cannot create ActiveX component"). The code in questions is very simple - see VB.Net below

Code: 
   Dim Outl As Object
        Try
            Outl = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
            If Outl IsNot Nothing Then
                Dim omsg As Object
                omsg = Outl.CreateItem(0) '=Outlook.OlItemType.olMailItem'
                'set message properties here...'
                omsg.subject = "Hello World test"
                omsg.Display(True) 'will display message to user
            End If
        Catch ex As Exception
            System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
        End Try
We have checked the "redirect URL/EMAIL" both on the server and the client. The URL gets redirected ok, the browser opens inside users local pc.
How could we get 2X to understand that we would like to open Outlook from the local client pc and not from the server?
Thanks,
kp

ps. we are using the latest version of Parallels/2X, both RAS server and client
 
Hi,
did at the time try the instructions in the link but without any success, so I did leave it with the hope that future Parallel versions would provide a solution.
Tested this again with the latest RAS version 15 and it doesn't want to invoke the Microsoft Office tools installed on the users pc.
Have written a small VB.NET program to test this - the idea is that the application would just open the word application. The vb.net code is here
Dim oWord As Word.Application
On Error GoTo err_handler
oWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
oWord.Visible = True
err_handler:
MsgBox("The code failed at line " & Erl(), vbCritical)

It imports "Imports word = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word" and references the COM object "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word"
When run locally it works fine, when via Parallels client it returns error "Class not found". There is a screenshot in the attached pdf file.

It would be great if Parallels could test this and perhaps write a small sample program to let us try out it.
Thanks,
kp
Ps. Oddly enough, the URL redirect works, a link gets opened in the local browser.
 

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