LDAP contacts with Outlook

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I am trying to go away from Microsoft Mail for interoffice email and wouls like to only use External email addresses. I wanted to use LDAP. I don't have an exchange server, but I noticed that if I set up the email address field in my Active Directory users I can setup Ldap clientin OUtlook to pull list from the AD. I am encountering 1 problem however. in order for the Meeting requests in outlook to work (Accept and decline buttons to come accross, you must select for each of your contacts the property field which says "Always send to this recipient in outlook Rich Text Format", which is the default for Microsoft Mail. I have tested this with a regular contact which I created in my outlook and it works. However with the AD list I noticed that under properties in my outlook, every field is greyed out and there is a field "Always send to this recipient in Microsoft Exchange Rich Text Format". I can't find a place to set this in AD and I am assuming this is because I don't have Microsoft Exchnage Server.

Does anyone know of a solution? If not does anyone know if I use a thir party software for creating my LDAP list will I be able to send the Meeting Requests properly.

Thanks,

Sam
 
Depending on your Outlook version, this may not be necessary at all. Instead, try sending appointments and meeting requests as iCalendar/vCalendar.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



I am trying to go away from Microsoft Mail for interoffice email and wouls like to only use External email addresses. I wanted to use LDAP. I don't have an exchange server, but I noticed that if I set up the email address field in my Active Directory users I can setup Ldap clientin OUtlook to pull list from the AD. I am encountering 1 problem however. in order for the Meeting requests in outlook to work (Accept and decline buttons to come accross, you must select for each of your contacts the property field which says "Always send to this recipient in outlook Rich Text Format", which is the default for Microsoft Mail. I have tested this with a regular contact which I created in my outlook and it works. However with the AD list I noticed that under properties in my outlook, every field is greyed out and there is a field "Always send to this recipient in Microsoft Exchange Rich Text Format". I can't find a place to set this in AD and I am assuming this is because I don't have Microsoft Exchnage Server.

Does anyone know of a solution? If not does anyone know if I use a thir party software for creating my LDAP list will I be able to send the Meeting Requests properly.

Thanks,

Sam
 
Will Outlook 2000 support this and this will allow them to save this event
in their calender but how will they be able to decline or accept so that it
automaticvally updates the sender?

Thanks

Depending on your Outlook version, this may not be necessary at all.
Instead, try sending appointments and meeting requests as
iCalendar/vCalendar.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



I am trying to go away from Microsoft Mail for interoffice email and wouls
like to only use External email addresses. I wanted to use LDAP. I don't
have an exchange server, but I noticed that if I set up the email address
field in my Active Directory users I can setup Ldap clientin OUtlook to pull
list from the AD. I am encountering 1 problem however. in order for the
Meeting requests in outlook to work (Accept and decline buttons to come
accross, you must select for each of your contacts the property field which
says "Always send to this recipient in outlook Rich Text Format", which is
the default for Microsoft Mail. I have tested this with a regular contact
which I created in my outlook and it works. However with the AD list I
noticed that under properties in my outlook, every field is greyed out and
there is a field "Always send to this recipient in Microsoft Exchange Rich
Text Format". I can't find a place to set this in AD and I am assuming this
is because I don't have Microsoft Exchnage Server.

Does anyone know of a solution? If not does anyone know if I use a thir
party software for creating my LDAP list will I be able to send the Meeting
Requests properly.

Thanks,

Sam
 
I'm not sure recall whether Outlook 2000 will send a vCal meeting request, and I don't have a test system set up right now. Outlook 2002 definitely does, and it works just fine. With Outlook 2000, you may get only a "Forward as vCal" command, which would generate an appointment, not a meeting request.

Another possibility might be to create Outlook contacts from your LDAP entries as you need to use them and then set the RTF flag on those individual contacts' addresses.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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