PRB: MAPI Error 80040700 When Making Profile Programmatically

When you make a profile programmatically, the call to IMsgServiceAdmin:ConfigureMsgService() may return the following MAPI error message:

The values passed to the ConfigureMsgService for the Mailbox Alias or Mailbox Display Name were ambiguous.

With Exchange Server version 5.5 SP3 or earlier, you can specify a Mailbox Display Name or Mailbox Alias that is unique but is a substring of another Mailbox Display Name or Mailbox Alias by using "=" before the string.

Alternately, you can specify the Distinguished Name (Obj-Dist-Name) of the mailbox.

To specify a Mailbox Alias that is Admin when there are also valid mailbox aliases of Admin1 and Admin2 you need to specify the string value as "=Admin" in order for this call to work. For example: Similarly, to specify a Mailbox Display Name for "Administrator" when there is also a valid Mailbox Display Names of "Administrator One" you would use the "=" as demonstrated here: An example of using the Distinguished Name follows:

For sample code demonstrating how to make a profile programmatically, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: