Install component on a Server?

[CocoaBean]

I have a C# application that streams xml to write out an Excel file to a
folder destined for an external trading partner. I wish to install this app
on a server. Installing MS Office on the server is not allowed. Can I
instruct the Network Admins to install the following COM components without
installation of MS Office (if that is possible)?

- Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel
- Microsoft Office 11.0 Object Library
- Microsoft.Vbe.Interop

 

[CocoaBean]

There are really two questions here.

1. Technically can these three COM components be installed on the server
without installing Office first?

2. If (1) can be done, does this violate MS's license agreement? Our
company does have several current volume licenses with MS for using Office 03
and 07.

 

[CocoaBean]

Answered the basic part of my own question. The interop components are only
wrappers around the COM components to allow managed code to interact with
unmanaged code.

So it would not do any good to only install these three components to a
server to make my application work. These interop components would need the
underlying COM components to do the actual processing for the applications.
So without MS Office components installed on the server, my application will
not work.