Outlook 2000 and LDAP Server

[sebjenkins]

Hi,

We have just switched our users from an Exchange enviroment to a different email server using internet e-mail and POP.
With Exchange all users were used to accessing the GAL (Global Address Book) for all staff addresses but now these users are connected to an LDAP server. However it seems that all the staff listing is not visible under this entry in Outlook unless you enter and a name and click on Find.

How would I get the complete staff listing from this directory server using Outlook ? Do you have to specify a specific query in Outlook so that it returns all results from A->Z ?

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[jrjuiliano]

The answer is.... depends...

If you're talking about getting a global address book using Active Directory then you need to create an address book pointing to the LDAP directory and probably using an account with access to the AD LDAP data. In that case also every account created (user) needs to have the e-mail field filled out if they have a valid e-mail address.

Now if you're talking about setting up an outside LDAP directory, such as using OpenLDAP, then my answer is I have never found an answer. I've always gotten to the point of creating an LDAP directory for my users (under 20) and can search just fine, but having them get listed when opening the address book has eluded me from the beginning. Google, Linux help site, and even OpenLDAP's sites are completely devoid of usable answers to me.

Anyway, hope that points you in the right direction.

 

[sebjenkins]

As I suspected, to look for an address you need to enter part of the name and click on 'check names'. The LDAP server is queried and a result is returned.

If you turn on address caching obviously you will only have to do this once.

It seems that this is MS's way of stopping people using open directory servers in place of AD!

 

[jrjuiliano]

Yup,

MS' implementation of LDAP standards is something not-quite-standard.

I wish someone would chime in with "I got it to work this way...". Or I wish I could code.

 

[sebjenkins]

With regards to caching of addresses in Outlook 2000 that have been queried from the LDAP server, how long does the cache exist for ?

Does the cache get wiped/cleared out when you log out or reboot ?

It certainly seems that way in our office ?

Does anybody know if this is correct or not ?

Many thanks in advance