People on LDAP

[Joris Dobbelsteen]

Well, its a W2k3 AD, with Exchange 2k3 installed.

Now I'm using LDAP for showing users in Outlook this way. Currently I shows
only some accounts for people with a exchange mailbox, but I want the
contacts in the directory to be shown too.
When you search you can find them, but I want to show them directly.
Everything is scattered over the entire directory logically sorted into
organisational groups.

Is there a way to accomplish this, as I don't know, or even imagine, how to
do this?

Another very low importance question: Also I would like to get rid of those
accounts Microsoft Exchange makes in the LDAP list (not actually remote
them)?

Thanks,

- Joris

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

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Well, its a W2k3 AD, with Exchange 2k3 installed.

Now I'm using LDAP for showing users in Outlook this way. Currently I
shows only some accounts for people with a exchange mailbox, but I
want the contacts in the directory to be shown too.
When you search you can find them, but I want to show them directly.
Everything is scattered over the entire directory logically sorted
into organisational groups.

Is there a way to accomplish this, as I don't know, or even imagine,
how to do this?

Another very low importance question: Also I would like to get rid of
those accounts Microsoft Exchange makes in the LDAP list (not
actually remote them)?

Thanks,

- Joris

Contacts should show up in the GAL by default, as long as they're not
hidden.

Are you saying you are using LDAP services on an internet mail client, such
as Outlook Express? I don;t see why you would need to setup an LDAP service
on a MAPI client?

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[Joris Dobbelsteen]

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"Ace Fekay [MVP]"

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Contacts should show up in the GAL by default, as long as they're not
hidden

Well, actually they don't. I never saw anything about hiding these contacts
in the AD, so could you tell me how I can check this?
Slight note: these are contacts without a mailbox on the exchange server.
And when explicitly searching, I see them, including when I type a name in
the address bar of Outlook which isn't in my contacts, but is in the AD.

Perhaps the search base has anything to do with this?
dc=MyDomain,dc=local

Are you saying you are using LDAP services on an internet mail client, such
as Outlook Express? I don;t see why you would need to setup an LDAP service
on a MAPI client?

Because I don't use "Exchange Server" here, but rather POP3 and SMTP. This
keeps the systems more stand-alone. It has a good reason to do so.
So since they are stand-alone, I use LDAP instead of the exchange way...
And no, I deserted Express a long time ago, I use only MS-Office Outlook 2k3
without express..

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

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"Ace Fekay [MVP]"


Well, actually they don't. I never saw anything about hiding these
contacts in the AD, so could you tell me how I can check this?
Slight note: these are contacts without a mailbox on the exchange
server. And when explicitly searching, I see them, including when I
type a name in the address bar of Outlook which isn't in my contacts,
but is in the AD.

Perhaps the search base has anything to do with this?
dc=MyDomain,dc=local

I don't think it's your search base, since I'm assuming that's your DNS
domain name. I would install the Exchange admin tools on the server you are
doing this from (a DC that doesn;t have Exchange installed on?) so as to
install the correct ADUC (dsacces.dll) that will show you the Exchange
specific tabs for the user account.

Once installed, see if that helps out. Otherwise, I haven;t tried it in this
fashion, but would assume that any GAL entry would show up in an LDAP
request.

Because I don't use "Exchange Server" here, but rather POP3 and SMTP.
This keeps the systems more stand-alone. It has a good reason to do
so.
So since they are stand-alone, I use LDAP instead of the exchange
way... And no, I deserted Express a long time ago, I use only
MS-Office Outlook 2k3 without express..

I see. No problem.





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Ace

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Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory

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