Exchange2K3 Address List via LDAP

Is it possible to define an Exchange 2K3 Address List using an LDAP query to
an external mail system?

We have a corporate office who uses Lotus Notes and allows anonymous LDAP
queries against their Notes server. I would like to create an Address List
for them within our Exchange 2K3 site and simply define it as a LDAP query
against their Notes server. Is this possible?

I know that Exchange has the Lotus Notes Connector for maintaining a link to
an external Notes server but it is very overkill for us. We simply want to
be able to see their address book.


Thanks,
Fred

Jim
Mon Aug 22 11:09:55 CDT 2005

Fred:
I'm pretty sure that this is not possible. When you create an address
list, the Recipient Update Service (RUS) stamps each user's
"showInAddressBook" attribute with the name of the address lists to which
they would show up. Without a recipient in the Active Directory, they would
not be included in the address list.

IMHO, your best bet is to create mail-enabled contacts for the folks in
your corporate office. That way they will show up in the address lists.

--
Jim McBee
- MostlyExchange Blog: http://mostlyexchange.blogspot.com
- Exchange FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resources/exchange/


"Fred Yarbrough" <fcyarbrough@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:u6v7MMzpFHA.3960@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Is it possible to define an Exchange 2K3 Address List using an LDAP query
> to
> an external mail system?
>
> We have a corporate office who uses Lotus Notes and allows anonymous LDAP
> queries against their Notes server. I would like to create an Address
> List
> for them within our Exchange 2K3 site and simply define it as a LDAP query
> against their Notes server. Is this possible?
>
> I know that Exchange has the Lotus Notes Connector for maintaining a link
> to
> an external Notes server but it is very overkill for us. We simply want
> to
> be able to see their address book.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Fred
>
>

Fred
Mon Aug 22 13:05:17 CDT 2005

Jim,
Yep, I am beginning to feel that you are correct about creating a
mail-enabled contact. I don't want to manually have to do this but it may
be my only reasonable option. You would think that this would be something
fairly easy and common to do.


Thanks,
Fred






"Jim McBee (MVP)" <jmcbee@cta.spambegone.net> wrote in message
news:ODctERzpFHA.3316@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Fred:
> I'm pretty sure that this is not possible. When you create an address
> list, the Recipient Update Service (RUS) stamps each user's
> "showInAddressBook" attribute with the name of the address lists to which
> they would show up. Without a recipient in the Active Directory, they
would
> not be included in the address list.
>
> IMHO, your best bet is to create mail-enabled contacts for the folks
in
> your corporate office. That way they will show up in the address lists.
>
> --
> Jim McBee
> - MostlyExchange Blog: http://mostlyexchange.blogspot.com
> - Exchange FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resources/exchange/
>
>
> "Fred Yarbrough" <fcyarbrough@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:u6v7MMzpFHA.3960@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > Is it possible to define an Exchange 2K3 Address List using an LDAP
query
> > to
> > an external mail system?
> >
> > We have a corporate office who uses Lotus Notes and allows anonymous
LDAP
> > queries against their Notes server. I would like to create an Address
> > List
> > for them within our Exchange 2K3 site and simply define it as a LDAP
query
> > against their Notes server. Is this possible?
> >
> > I know that Exchange has the Lotus Notes Connector for maintaining a
link
> > to
> > an external Notes server but it is very overkill for us. We simply want
> > to
> > be able to see their address book.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Fred
> >
> >
>
>

Jim
Mon Aug 22 13:20:30 CDT 2005

Yep, it sure seems like it would be something simple to do. I'll bet
someone like SimpleSync can synchronize contacts between Notes and the
Active Directory, too. If you have access (admin rights) to the Lotus
Notes system, you can try to set up the directory synchronizer from the
Lotus Notes Connector in Exchange. If you can get anything other than
anonymous access to their Notes system, you might be in business. Take a
look at this article:
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Improving_Coexistence_between_Lotus_NotesDomino_and_Microsoft_Exchange.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/8bjoc


--
Jim McBee
- MostlyExchange Blog: http://mostlyexchange.blogspot.com
- Exchange FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resources/exchange/


"Fred Yarbrough" <fcyarbrough@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:OF5BLQ0pFHA.820@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Jim,
> Yep, I am beginning to feel that you are correct about creating a
> mail-enabled contact. I don't want to manually have to do this but it may
> be my only reasonable option. You would think that this would be
> something
> fairly easy and common to do.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Fred
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Jim McBee (MVP)" <jmcbee@cta.spambegone.net> wrote in message
> news:ODctERzpFHA.3316@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> Fred:
>> I'm pretty sure that this is not possible. When you create an
>> address
>> list, the Recipient Update Service (RUS) stamps each user's
>> "showInAddressBook" attribute with the name of the address lists to which
>> they would show up. Without a recipient in the Active Directory, they
> would
>> not be included in the address list.
>>
>> IMHO, your best bet is to create mail-enabled contacts for the folks
> in
>> your corporate office. That way they will show up in the address lists.
>>
>> --
>> Jim McBee
>> - MostlyExchange Blog: http://mostlyexchange.blogspot.com
>> - Exchange FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resources/exchange/
>>
>>
>> "Fred Yarbrough" <fcyarbrough@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:u6v7MMzpFHA.3960@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> > Is it possible to define an Exchange 2K3 Address List using an LDAP
> query
>> > to
>> > an external mail system?
>> >
>> > We have a corporate office who uses Lotus Notes and allows anonymous
> LDAP
>> > queries against their Notes server. I would like to create an Address
>> > List
>> > for them within our Exchange 2K3 site and simply define it as a LDAP
> query
>> > against their Notes server. Is this possible?
>> >
>> > I know that Exchange has the Lotus Notes Connector for maintaining a
> link
>> > to
>> > an external Notes server but it is very overkill for us. We simply
>> > want
>> > to
>> > be able to see their address book.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Fred
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

Fred
Mon Aug 22 14:11:35 CDT 2005

Thanks Jim!


Fred


"Jim McBee (MVP)" <jmcbee@cta.spambegone.net> wrote in message
news:%2317fvY0pFHA.2768@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Yep, it sure seems like it would be something simple to do. I'll bet
> someone like SimpleSync can synchronize contacts between Notes and the
> Active Directory, too. If you have access (admin rights) to the Lotus
> Notes system, you can try to set up the directory synchronizer from the
> Lotus Notes Connector in Exchange. If you can get anything other than
> anonymous access to their Notes system, you might be in business. Take a
> look at this article:
>
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Improving_Coexistence_between_Lotus_NotesDomino_and_Microsoft_Exchange.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/8bjoc
>
>
> --
> Jim McBee
> - MostlyExchange Blog: http://mostlyexchange.blogspot.com
> - Exchange FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resources/exchange/
>
>
> "Fred Yarbrough" <fcyarbrough@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:OF5BLQ0pFHA.820@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > Jim,
> > Yep, I am beginning to feel that you are correct about creating a
> > mail-enabled contact. I don't want to manually have to do this but it
may
> > be my only reasonable option. You would think that this would be
> > something
> > fairly easy and common to do.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Fred
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Jim McBee (MVP)" <jmcbee@cta.spambegone.net> wrote in message
> > news:ODctERzpFHA.3316@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> >> Fred:
> >> I'm pretty sure that this is not possible. When you create an
> >> address
> >> list, the Recipient Update Service (RUS) stamps each user's
> >> "showInAddressBook" attribute with the name of the address lists to
which
> >> they would show up. Without a recipient in the Active Directory, they
> > would
> >> not be included in the address list.
> >>
> >> IMHO, your best bet is to create mail-enabled contacts for the
folks
> > in
> >> your corporate office. That way they will show up in the address
lists.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jim McBee
> >> - MostlyExchange Blog: http://mostlyexchange.blogspot.com
> >> - Exchange FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resources/exchange/
> >>
> >>
> >> "Fred Yarbrough" <fcyarbrough@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >> news:u6v7MMzpFHA.3960@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> >> > Is it possible to define an Exchange 2K3 Address List using an LDAP
> > query
> >> > to
> >> > an external mail system?
> >> >
> >> > We have a corporate office who uses Lotus Notes and allows anonymous
> > LDAP
> >> > queries against their Notes server. I would like to create an
Address
> >> > List
> >> > for them within our Exchange 2K3 site and simply define it as a LDAP
> > query
> >> > against their Notes server. Is this possible?
> >> >
> >> > I know that Exchange has the Lotus Notes Connector for maintaining a
> > link
> >> > to
> >> > an external Notes server but it is very overkill for us. We simply
> >> > want
> >> > to
> >> > be able to see their address book.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Fred
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

Joe
Mon Aug 22 17:52:14 CDT 2005

You could attempt to manually manipulate the msExchDynamicDLBaseDN attribute of
a dynamic query based group to specify a remote LDAP server - something like
LDAP://servername/basedn

I would be doubtful that it would work though.

--
Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
www.joeware.net


Fred Yarbrough wrote:
> Is it possible to define an Exchange 2K3 Address List using an LDAP query to
> an external mail system?
>
> We have a corporate office who uses Lotus Notes and allows anonymous LDAP
> queries against their Notes server. I would like to create an Address List
> for them within our Exchange 2K3 site and simply define it as a LDAP query
> against their Notes server. Is this possible?
>
> I know that Exchange has the Lotus Notes Connector for maintaining a link to
> an external Notes server but it is very overkill for us. We simply want to
> be able to see their address book.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Fred
>
>

Fred
Tue Aug 23 08:12:22 CDT 2005

Yeah, that is what I tried. I did not add the basedn though because I did
not know what it would be. Any idea?

Thanks,
Fred


"Joe Richards [MVP]" <humorexpress@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e2wnkw2pFHA.3884@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> You could attempt to manually manipulate the msExchDynamicDLBaseDN
attribute of
> a dynamic query based group to specify a remote LDAP server - something
like
> LDAP://servername/basedn
>
> I would be doubtful that it would work though.
>
> --
> Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
> www.joeware.net
>
>
> Fred Yarbrough wrote:
> > Is it possible to define an Exchange 2K3 Address List using an LDAP
query to
> > an external mail system?
> >
> > We have a corporate office who uses Lotus Notes and allows anonymous
LDAP
> > queries against their Notes server. I would like to create an Address
List
> > for them within our Exchange 2K3 site and simply define it as a LDAP
query
> > against their Notes server. Is this possible?
> >
> > I know that Exchange has the Lotus Notes Connector for maintaining a
link to
> > an external Notes server but it is very overkill for us. We simply want
to
> > be able to see their address book.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Fred
> >
> >

Ben
Tue Aug 23 16:56:43 CDT 2005

You'd have to connect to the Notes server with an LDAP client (ldp.exe is
included in the Windows 2003 Support Tools) and see what it has available as
baseDN's. The BaseDN simply tells the ldap query where to start at. Here
are a few examples of baseDN's with Active Directory.

DC=domainname,DC=com
CN=Configuration,DC=domain,DC=com
CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=domain,DC=com

--
Ben Winzenz
Exchange MVP
MessageOne


"Fred Yarbrough" <fcyarbrough@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:O4H4NR%23pFHA.2768@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Yeah, that is what I tried. I did not add the basedn though because I did
> not know what it would be. Any idea?
>
> Thanks,
> Fred
>
>
> "Joe Richards [MVP]" <humorexpress@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:e2wnkw2pFHA.3884@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> You could attempt to manually manipulate the msExchDynamicDLBaseDN
> attribute of
>> a dynamic query based group to specify a remote LDAP server - something
> like
>> LDAP://servername/basedn
>>
>> I would be doubtful that it would work though.
>>
>> --
>> Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
>> www.joeware.net
>>
>>
>> Fred Yarbrough wrote:
>> > Is it possible to define an Exchange 2K3 Address List using an LDAP
> query to
>> > an external mail system?
>> >
>> > We have a corporate office who uses Lotus Notes and allows anonymous
> LDAP
>> > queries against their Notes server. I would like to create an Address
> List
>> > for them within our Exchange 2K3 site and simply define it as a LDAP
> query
>> > against their Notes server. Is this possible?
>> >
>> > I know that Exchange has the Lotus Notes Connector for maintaining a
> link to
>> > an external Notes server but it is very overkill for us. We simply
>> > want
> to
>> > be able to see their address book.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Fred
>> >
>> >
>
>