Overview - LDAP Service |
The LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) server is used to share address book lists amongst users. By using a shared resource, the users are not looking for the address of each user within their company each time they need to email them. Also, if an address changes, then one change will need to be made, rather than having to notify all employees to update their local address books.
The benefits are many, these are just a few...
Benefits of the LDAP server include, less error messages resulting from incorrect email addresses being entered by users and less time wasted looking for the correct address. This is the biggest benefit, as this could distract more than one user from their given task.
The mail clients can be configured to query the LDAP server each time a message is being sent, for either a complete lookup of an unknown addresses, or confirmation of a partially remembered/entered address.
You can add, remove and view the entries from the LDAP server.
The LDAP server has the following properties page:
Property |
Description |
Set the address the service will be bound to, configure idle timeout, and port number. Also enable logging for this service. | |
Vied, edit and manage the entries within the LDAP server |
Also available are the 'Add entry' and 'View entry' pages, click the links below to see those pages, in the LDAP section of this document.
Property |
Description |
Manually add an entry to the LDAP database, this may be an external clients details or someone who the users deal with regularly. | |
View an LDAP entry, to check the details or edit it (see below) | |
To edit an LDAP entry, change the defined settings or data |
Note: Outlook 2000 users should look at the Knowledgebase topic called 'Connecting Outlook 2000 to the LDAP server' for troubleshooting information.