Re: Active Directory Fails as LDAP Address Book

I took a peek at this and just selecting the AD addressbook outlook immeidately comes up and says You cannot create entries for this Address Book. It never even contacts the directory. It would appear this is a limitation in Outlook.

joe

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Joe Richards [MVP] wrote:
Like I said, get a network trace, it could be very likely Outlook isn't sending the LDAP updates that you expect. Then you simply look at the LDAP modify packet and see what it says and the LDAP modify response packet.

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mp wrote:
In an update to my situation, I checked advanced setting by going to
the OU>properties>security>SalesGroup>Advanced. Ownership belongs to
group Sales (right now, I'm the only one in group Sales) Effective
permissions shows that anyone in Sales -should- have full control.
Meaning they should be able to add + delete objects.


I'm in SalesGroup and I cannot add contacts from my outlook client.

I've come to the conclusion it is impossible to use Active Directory as
an LDAP shared contacts where users can add/delete contacts from their
Outlook client. I don't see a way to debug it on either the client or
server side either.

I'm no AD guru, but unless someone with more experience can show me
how, I'd say AD is not equipped to do this.

Michael


mp wrote:
Hi,

I'm attempting to set up an Organizational Unit OU address book in an
AD2003/Outlook 2003 environment that members of the OU can add/delete
contacts.

I've got the OU set up and the Outlook 03 client working fine for
read-only.

When I attempt to add a contact to the OU contact list, Select
Names>Advanced>New> Option LDAP directory it tells me "You cannot
create entries for this address book"

I've attempted the following:

1. Delegate authority: Full Control to the group of users in the OU.
2. Create a GPO with Full Control and then adding the OU group of users
to the GPO.

Both deny creation of new contacts from the Outlook clients.

Note: Exchange is not an option. They are already dissatisfied with
AD.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

.

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