Opening New Outlook mail Message from Web Application

I am trying to open a new outlook mail message from the click of a button on a web page.  My code also creates a new calendar item and attaches it to the email.  The body of the email is populated with data from my database.

I am getting the following error:

Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {0006F03A-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}

I have added the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.dll (version 12) to the product.  The dll is in the bin directory.

Everything works fine in development.  It does not work when I post on a production server.

Production server is running windows 2003

Do I need to install Outlook on the production server?

Dim objOutlook As New Outlook.Application
            Dim objOutlookMsg As Object
            Const olMailItem As Object = 0
            'Const olBCC As Integer = 3
            Const olImportanceHigh As Integer = 2
            'Const olCC As Integer = 2
            Const olTo As Integer = 1
 
            'objOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
            objOutlookMsg = objOutlook.CreateItem(olMailItem)
            With objOutlookMsg
                Dim objOutlookRecip As Object = .Recipients.Add(strTakingAttorneyEmails)
                objOutlookRecip.type = olTo
                .Subject = strSubject
                .HTMLBody = parser.Parse
                '.Body = "TEST BODY"
                .Importance = olImportanceHigh
                'ADD THE ATTACHMENT TO THE EMAIL
                .Attachments.Add(strCalendarItem)
                .Display() ' use  .send() to send
 
            End With
            objOutlookMsg = Nothing
            objOutlook = Nothing

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