RE: LDAP address book with Outlook

[Guus.Leeuw@t-online.de (Dipl.-Inf. Guus Leeuw jr.)]

Hey Graeme,

I'ld be interested in that mapping as well :)

My setup works, but I find WAB entries to display
very little information from std objectclasses
such as inetOrgPerson...

Could you share your knowledge anyhow?

Guus

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
>  [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of 
>  Graeme Joyce
>  Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 4:32 AM
>  To: Bob Cameron; openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
>  Subject: Re: LDAP address book with Outlook
>  
>  
>  Hi Bob
>  
>  We've got a corporate LDAP server which our users point their Windows
>  Address Books at (ie using Start -> Find People...). Most 
>  attribute fields
>  in WAB get populated when you view the properties for a 
>  selected entry (ie I
>  know which attributes in LDAP map to which fields in WAB). 
>  So I should be
>  able to help you....if I could just understand your question?
>  
>  Objectclass is a bit of a red-herring...I think you'll find, 
>  for a single
>  search word, Outlook (ie WAB) is doing a search like:
>   (| (cn=bob*) (sn=bob*) (givenName=bob*) (mail=bob*))
>  
>  Going on memory here so its probably not exactly right, but 
>  you get the
>  idea. No mention of objectClass. I use access lists to limit 
>  user searches
>  to certain branches (ie they can see entries under ou=people but not
>  ou=servers)
>  
>  Like to try again?
>  Graeme
>  
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Bob Cameron" <Bob_Cameron@lse.com.au>
>  To: <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
>  Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 2:14 PM
>  Subject: LDAP address book with Outlook
>  
>  
>  > Hi all
>  >
>  > I should be able to work this out.... but
>  >
>  > With the 2.0.11 "stable" version schema etc files.
>  >
>  > I have done some searching through the mail archives but 
>  cant seem to find
>  > the exact way to setup OL2K and the LDAP server to be able 
>  to populate
>  > most/all of the fields. I note that in the "What LDAP 
>  attributes are
>  > recognized" FAQ it only lists groupOfNames, person and 
>  organizationPerson
>  as
>  > being recognized by OL, but saw another reference that 
>  suggest the use of
>  > inetOrgperson?
>  >
>  > In an LDAP How-to I found an extra object class called
>  microsoftaddressbook.
>  > Does this work?
>  >
>  > What are you people using? I have the dream that I'll 
>  parse every piece of
>  > email that comes in/out for info to plug into LDAP data 
>  and allow users a
>  > web interface to do manual updates.
>  >
>  > Any thoughts
>  >
>  >
>  > Bob Cameron
>  > Network Administrator
>  > LSE Technology (Aust) Pty Ltd
>  >
>  >
>