[lug] ACTIVE DIRECTORY WATCH OUT

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Sat Aug 25 08:48:06 MDT 2007


Nate Duehr wrote:
> 
> On Aug 24, 2007, at 9:07 AM, steve at badcheese.com wrote:
> 
>> That just looks like an ldap server to me.  Does it do all of the 
>> mail/calendar stuff that active directory and open directory do too?
> 
> Wow, not being a "windows guy"... when did mail/calendar move from 
> Exchange to Active Directory?

IIRC running Exchange changes the AD schema.  That's so that, e.g., the 
user info in AD includes things that Exchange needs.  Since they are 
both LDAP the answer is yes, it will do all that mail/calendar stuff. 
But maybe not as easily as you'd like.

Dave



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