.NET version of CDOExM?

I am writing an employment database management utility. One of the
requirements -- in fact, the original impetus for the project -- is to
automatically create email-enabled domain login accounts when a new hire
is set up in the employee database. I can get the accounts set up just
fine, but they are not email enabled. There seems to be no .NET way to
do this, and the only mention I've been able to find is the COM library
CDOExM.

I find it beyond belief that, several years after Microsoft officially
abandoned COM for .NET, there would be no .NET way to manage Exchange
properties in Active Directory. Am I missing something, or will I be
forced to go through the hassle of using CDOExM?
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Gregory Gadow