OL97: No Support of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (166091)
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Microsoft Outlook 97 does not support the Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol (LDAP) for client directory lookups. Microsoft Outlook 98 does
support LDAP.
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The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a protocol for clients
to query and manage information in a Directory Service over a TCP
connection (port 389). The LDAP protocol was designed by University of
Michigan to provide access to the X.500 Directory while not incurring the
resource requirements of the Directory Access Protocol (DAP). This makes it
very suitable for use on the Internet.
Outlook 97 is not a LDAP client and does not provide the ability to query
using LDAP. Active Directory is a Directory Service integrated with the
Windows NT Server operating system; it offers the hierarchical view,
extensibility, scalability, and distributed security required by all
customers. Microsoft provides support for LDAP in Active Directory and
enables it to integrate with the Internet. With this LDAP support,
customers can deploy Active Directory in a corporate computing environment
and interoperate with LDAP clients from multiple vendors.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 10/26/2000 |
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| Keywords: | kbinfo kbinterop kbnetwork KB166091 |
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