08-05-2005, 02:14 PM
I had this trouble of setting some kind of ldap address book. Yeah address book only as my domains are setted on AD so I didn't needed a "huge" solution, however it seemed that I couldn't use my ActiveDirectory structure as a ldap address book. This was annoying.
There is an evident lack of documentation out there, this is quite obvious as M$ wants you to buy exchange for this kind of purposes. However in the basic AD structure there is the field for an email address.
So after having digested a few documentations, practiced like a n00b monkey I wondered "damn they built their damn stuff atop a ldap architecture, they even use the standart ldap port (389) why the HELL it wouldn't work".
At first I thought "hell yeah wouldn't be the first time that those punks do some kind of à la microsoft style implementation but I hate when a computer doesn't want to cooperate.
So I spoke to my servers the other day I told to the machines : this lack of cooperation is really upsetting me, you better change attitude (computers are like wild animals they feel the fear you have to show'em who's the boss).
Well after a few tries and educated guess I made it work. damn my outlook clients now fetch the email and username field from the AD domain WITHOUT having an exchange server.
I feel so proud and happy now.
Today I'll kick ass outlook 2003 and make that free/busy function work. yeah nothing can beat.
I'll even do some documentation and spread it over the net (microsoft your days are counted arh arh arh).
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LET'S FIGHT M$
a linux chick
Yes there are some limitations (at first sight you can't see the members of a mail group but I'm working on that) that exchange could alleviate, but if you need some quick and nice implementation of an address book and that you already have an AD why buying and having the pain to bee ass raped by an exchange server ?
I say that because if you never had to invoke from the dead bits a crashed exchange server you don't know HOW PAINFUL exchange could be.
I had the case of the mail server having the raid cards corrupting datas on the harddisks, took me 29 hours (non-stop) to set-up the whole system back and functionning (I told you that I hate when a computer doesn't do want I want him to do ?).
ps : Right now I should need to smoke a bowl and/or get laid. (that's for jdub upcomming comment)
There is an evident lack of documentation out there, this is quite obvious as M$ wants you to buy exchange for this kind of purposes. However in the basic AD structure there is the field for an email address.
So after having digested a few documentations, practiced like a n00b monkey I wondered "damn they built their damn stuff atop a ldap architecture, they even use the standart ldap port (389) why the HELL it wouldn't work".
At first I thought "hell yeah wouldn't be the first time that those punks do some kind of à la microsoft style implementation but I hate when a computer doesn't want to cooperate.
So I spoke to my servers the other day I told to the machines : this lack of cooperation is really upsetting me, you better change attitude (computers are like wild animals they feel the fear you have to show'em who's the boss).
Well after a few tries and educated guess I made it work. damn my outlook clients now fetch the email and username field from the AD domain WITHOUT having an exchange server.
I feel so proud and happy now.
Today I'll kick ass outlook 2003 and make that free/busy function work. yeah nothing can beat.
I'll even do some documentation and spread it over the net (microsoft your days are counted arh arh arh).
LET'S FIGHT M$
a linux chick
Yes there are some limitations (at first sight you can't see the members of a mail group but I'm working on that) that exchange could alleviate, but if you need some quick and nice implementation of an address book and that you already have an AD why buying and having the pain to bee ass raped by an exchange server ?
I say that because if you never had to invoke from the dead bits a crashed exchange server you don't know HOW PAINFUL exchange could be.
I had the case of the mail server having the raid cards corrupting datas on the harddisks, took me 29 hours (non-stop) to set-up the whole system back and functionning (I told you that I hate when a computer doesn't do want I want him to do ?).
ps : Right now I should need to smoke a bowl and/or get laid. (that's for jdub upcomming comment)
