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Short for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, LDAP
is the foundation of the various "white pages"
directories on the Internet and can also be used within an
organization to provide a group address book. Outlook includes support for LDAP, beginning with
Outlook 98, while Outlook 97, Exchange and Windows
Messaging can use third-party tools to connect to LDAP
servers.
If
you have Windows 2000 Server running on your LAN,
you can configure Active Directory, which supports LDAP right
out of the box. See
How to Configure Address Book to Query Users in Active Directory
for details on how to configure Outlook; follow the instructions in
the Downlevel Client Considerations with the Address Book section to
set the server, user, password, and port in Outlook's LDAP service.
The utilities on this page operate as MAPI transports
and, therefore, do not work with Outlook 98 or Outlook
2000 in Internet Mail Only mode.
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Outlook
98 & Later Versions | Other
Tools | Notes | More
Information
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Outlook 98 & Later Versions
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Microsoft
Outlook 98 includes LDAP support
built into Internet Mail Only mode and as an
additional component that can be downloaded or
installed from the CD for Corporate/Workgroup mode.
Microsoft Outlook 2000 and 2002 install LDAP either automatically or when you first use it. (Keep
that CD handy.)
In Corporate/Workgroup mode, use Tools
| Services to add new LDAP address books. In Internet
Mail Only mode, use Tools | Accounts.
Also see:
OL2000 (CW) Corporate Workgroup
LDAP Service Does Not Support SSL
-- This issue has been fixes in Office
2000 SP-2.
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Tools
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| Insight AddressBook
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Insight AddressBook is an Outlook plug-in that has the same look and feel as Microsoft's Global Address List, from an LDAP server. This application is designed to provide customers, with even very large directory, instantaneous lookups when using the "check name" feature in a new mail message. It has caching capabilities, and queries take less than three seconds for the entire directory. The AddressBook integrates completely with Insight Connector and Outlook. The browsable GAL can lookup and display the name, email, phone numbers, fax, and more for each user. In addition, the schema can be changed to work with other mail servers. Free trial available. |
| MasterKeyPlus
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LDAP provider that supports browsing of the address book (which Microsoft's LDAP doesn't do) with additional features and an ActiveX developer's kit available |
| NEXOR Defender for Outlook
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Provides X.400 and P772 military messaging support to Outlook users. Includes LDAP address book component. |
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Notes
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With
Microsoft's LDAP provider in Outlook 98 and 2000, you generally don't browse all the available
addresses as you would with other address books. Instead,
you perform a search and browse the search results. Third-party LDAP
providers may support browsing.
Outlook
2002, on the other hand, does allow browsing of the LDAP address book,
at least if it's relatively small. |
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More Information
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An
LDAP Roadmap & FAQ -- good starting
reference by Jeff Hodges, Stanford
XCLN:
How to Return X.400 Addresses with Outlook LDAP
Service (MSKB)
Dietrich
Kracht's LDAP Page
-- in German
Dawn
-- Utility to import LDAP/LDIF data into Outlook 98/2000
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Updated
Apr 07 2008
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