Re: Outlook-like Contact Manager facility

["Mark Wilcox" <mark@mjwilcox.com>]

Hi,
Outlook doesn't synch with LDAP (at least not in it's current version).
I think LDAP is in Outlook mostly so that users can take advantage of
Internet directories such as Four11.com who use LDAP.
Of course MS wants Outlook to only synch with Exchange since they make big
$$ on the Exchange (I'm not knocking this, because good or bad, MS is out to
make $$). This isn't that different from Novell's Groupwise synching only
with the Groupwise server. I'm just happy that you can get to Exchange more
or less from LDAP.

You can synch up with LDAP with Netscape Communicator (well ok you have to
configure the LDAP server for it, but it can be done) ;)

Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com>
To: openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org <openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Friday, April 30, 1999 11:01 AM
Subject: Outlook-like Contact Manager facility


>
>Greetings!  I can see how to configure Outlook to use an LDAP server
>for email address lookups, but is there any way to replicate the MS
>Exchange function of synchronizing personal "contact" folders with a
>global database via LDAP?  Outlook doesn't even seem to present these
>options unless an MS Exchange server is available, as apart from an
>LDAP server.  Anyone have a work around?  I could probably write it
>myself if someone could provide the format of MS .ost files.
>
>Thanks!
>
>
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>Camm Maguire      camm@enhanced.com
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