On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:50:49AM +1000, Del wrote: > Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > > G'day, > > > > I'm trying to get my hand with LDAP. Does anyone know > > how to set-up ldap for the m$ outlook address book > > database? > > Can't be done. > > MS outlook doesn't use LDAP for its address book database. > You may be thinking of MS exchange.
Outlook has basically two types of address books: 1) Contacts and 2) "Address Books" Outlook presents its contacts as an address book for certain operations, but it can't do the reverse. Outlook can also present LDAP data as and "address book". Outlook can't present LDAP data as contacts (AFAIK) for that you need MSExchange or perhaps SUSE openExchange can do it too. Here is what I have used outlook 98 (in 1998) for with Netscape Directory (LDAP) server: 1) Type a name in the To: box which matches an LDAP entry and have it look up the name automatically and get the correct address 2) Click on the To: Button in an email message and bring up the address book interface One of the sources in there is my LDAP server, and I can see everyone on that server's name, and click on them. For you: 1) maybe newer versions of Outlook have the functionality you are looking for 2) maybe outlook express (completely different program to outlook) is what you are using and will do what you want 3) maybe Outlook Shared folders will do what you want. cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
