rob,

note that none of this is specific to OX and should not have been
posted here in the first place. the openldap community has fora of
their own.

* Rob Myroon <rob.myroon at tartan.ca> [2006-06-06 22:08]:
> I am using Redhat es 4. I am using openldap 2.2.13 which appears to
> be the latest release from Redhat.

redhat is infamous for providing ancient OpenLDAP releases.
all other things being equal I suggest you get the lastest OpenLDAP
distribution ("CDS Silver") from symas.com, packaged for the OS of
your choice and keep up to date with their packages.

> This page talks about Outlook 2002 and 2003 not talking to openldap 2.2.29.
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555536&sd=rss&spid=2559

this page also clearly states how to fix the behaviour.

> Would my Outlook user be able to connect to the ldap server if I
> upgraded openldap to a more recent version?

you could check the ChangeLog
http://www.openldap.org/software/release/changes.html
if never releases implement the VLV-extension that is mentioned on
that M$ page. I seriously doubt it.

> Should I be using a more recent version of openldap anyways?

newer releases tend to have fewer bugs, better data integrity,
significant perfomance improvements and -- most importantly -- are
supported by the openldap community. every question about percieved
erroneous behaviour of slapd regarding any version a bit behind will
probably get you "did you try the latest release?" for an "answer".

but I guess you used this "Enterprise" distro for a reason (at least
people some do) so swapping part of the software for newer packages
from third parties will probably not be helpful wrt your support
contract...?
since the upgrade will not fix M$-Outlook's behaviour there's no point
upgrading. unless you need other fixes that only come with later
OpenLDAP releases, of course.

regards,
-p.schober

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