Re: Active Directory Fails as LDAP Address Book

I actually used a domain admin ID just to see what it was doing and saw that it can query the directory just fine, but it never tries to write to it.

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Ace Fekay [MVP] wrote:
In news:eidnSR9wGHA.3936@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Joe Richards [MVP] <humorexpress@xxxxxxxxxxx> stated, which I commented on below:
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

I thought it may have been a limitation with AD or whether it looks at it as an anonymous connection (even though you are specifying credentials)?

A similar method is used with Entourage (Outlook 2004 for Macs) in grabbing the GAL (Microsoft Entourage is an web http based email client and uses LDAP directories). But the biggest difference is that there is a specific option for an LDAP directory as well as one specifically for AD (as long as the Mac workstation is bound to AD using the AD utilities on it). However, I'm not sure how Entourage differentiates LDAP and AD. But I can't remember if they are able to update it, since I beleive it is actually pulling it from the GC, that is if I remember right, we've specified 3268 as the port, but would have to double check that, if anyone is interested.

Ace


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