Entourage with Directory services using Microsoft ADAM

[mellimik]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: Exchange

Hello, I've been configuring brand new Microsoft ADAM installation into one of our Windows servers at work, but reading the ADAM directory through LDAP with Entourage seems to be a bit tricky.

I've prepared the ADAM installation using Microsoft's "ADAM Step-by-Step Guide" and it contains three users (actually their exact class is an contact) with E-mail addresses (mail attribute). Problem is that even though I can see the servers security event viewer successfully logging in the network authentication of the Mac computer running the Entourage client, I don't get any results. The ADAM directory is obviously queried, but Entourage displays no results.

I've also tested Entourage with our Active Directory Domain Controller inside our local netword, and that seems to work just fine with all our users being visible in the directory lookup. But when querying ADAM... no results in the lookup.

I have tested the ADAM installation by configuring it to my Windows Address Book (WAB.exe) running in Windows XP, and I can successfully query those three contacts. I just can't seem to get Entourage working with it.

Anyone been fighting with the same issue?

 

[mellimik]

Further explaining myself.. Based on my recent tests with the network monitor running on ADAM host OS, I can see that the Entourage successfully binds to the ADAM instance, sends a LDAP question, ADAM replies and Entourage unbinds. So knowing this it makes me belief that my ADAM application partition is either missing something or all the user objects inside the application partition are missing some key attributes.

When I exported these user objects from our production AD, I included the following object attributes: cn,displayName,sAMAccountName,mail,jpegPhoto,objectClass,telephoneNumber

Anyhow, I would still be really keen on knowing if there is someone out there successfully running an instance of ADAM with Entourage clients using it as their LDAP directory. Then I could perhaps futher cross-reference settings or object attributes.

 

[William Smith [MVP]]

Hello, I've been configuring brand new Microsoft ADAM installation
into one of our Windows servers at work, but reading the ADAM
directory through LDAP with Entourage seems to be a bit tricky.

I have no experience with ADAM but when troubleshooting LDAP connections
I usually try a different client such as LDapper
<http://carl-bell-2.baylor.edu/~Carl_Bell/stuff.html#LDapper> to make
sure my Entourage settings are correct. What works in one should work in
both.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
YouTalk <http://nine.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/youtalk>
Twitter: follow <http://twitter.com/meck>

 

[Guest]

I pretty much decided to give up as I am getting nowhere with this. I would need to know the exact syntax of the LDAP filter Entourage uses to list users. At least that way I could verify it with any other LDAP client that objects should or should not be returned. I am, however, able to return results with Entourage by using our Domain Controller configured as a Global Catalog, but that does not help me as I cannot expose it to internet.

When I try to use the ADAM instance with Entourage I either get a dialog prompting "Error -17768" or alternatively "No matches found" etc. I have configured the Entourage to use authentication with the ADAM and manually selected 389 as port. In addition to this I've also verified that there is a successful LDAP connection between ADAM and Entourage by using a network monitor.

I'll drop this for now since there are no simple routes usable for debugging this problem.

(e-mail address removed) wrote:

Hello, I've been configuring brand new Microsoft ADAM installation >

into one of our Windows servers at work, but reading the ADAM > directory
through LDAP with Entourage seems to be a bit tricky.





I have no experience with ADAM but when troubleshooting LDAP connections
I usually try a different client such as LDapper to make sure my Entourage
settings are correct. What works in one should work in both.





Hope this helps!





--





bill





Entourage Help Page Entourage Help Blog YouTalk Twitter: follow

 

[William Smith [MVP]]

I pretty much decided to give up as I am getting nowhere with this. I

would need to know the exact syntax of the LDAP filter Entourage uses
to list users. At least that way I could verify it with any other
LDAP client that objects should or should not be returned. I am,
however, able to return results with Entourage by using our Domain
Controller configured as a Global Catalog, but that does not help me
as I cannot expose it to internet.

LDAP syntax is LDAP syntax regardless of what computer platform you're
using. Entourage has no special flavor.

You never mentioned you were trying to access your LDAP server from the
Internet. Of course you don't want to expose a Global Catalog server to
the outside world.

I have an AppleScript that will allow you to search (not browse) the GAL
through your Outlook Web Access (OWA) connection:

"Accessing the Global Address List from Home"
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/exchange/exchangelookups.html>

Hope this helps!

--

bill

Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
YouTalk <http://nine.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/youtalk>
Twitter: follow <http://twitter.com/meck>