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Windows Address Book Directory Service

Directory services are powerful search tools that help your users find people and businesses around the world. The Windows Address Book supports LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) for accessing directory services, and it comes with built-in access to several popular directory services. You can specify an additional service for your users.

Service Name
Type the friendly name of your LDAP service. This is the name that will be displayed to your users.

Server Name
Type the name of the directory service you want to add, such as ldap.AcmeISP.com or ldap.switchboard.com. If you require authentication via an SSPI package such as NTLM for users who access these services, click the Logon using SPA check box. Basic authentication using a user name and password combination can be configured via .ins files.

Service Web Site
This is the directory service's home page that appears if the user clicks the Start button, points to Find, clicks People, and then clicks Web Site.

Search base
Sometimes known as the root or scope, the Search Base is the hierarchical level at which to search a given LDAP server. The search base can be a country, organization, or other type of grouping. The Outlook Express default for search base when none is specified is "c=us." To specify no search base, type NULL.

Service bitmap
You can specify a custom 134-by-38 pixel, 16-color .bmp file. To ensure consistent color mapping, it is highly recommended that you use only the Windows 16-bit color palette when composing the bitmap. To locate the .bmp file on your computer, click Browse.

Search timeout
You can specify how long your users will wait before you time out a search request. Use the slider to set a time value between 30 seconds and 5 minutes.

Maximum number of matches to return
You can control the maximum number of results that can be returned to your users. Type the number in this box.

Name Resolution
To have Outlook Express resolve names against the server when a user sends a message, select Check names against this server when sending mail. This setting instructs Outlook Express to look up e-mail addresses for names typed on the To, Cc, and Bcc lines of a mail message.