[Asterisk-Users] CID lookup from an Exchange Public folder

[Colin Anderson]

Exchange contacts != AD entries. Contacts in Exchange are basically email
messages with metadata.  Now, if all of your contacts WERE in AD, you could
do a script to query AD through LDAP (that's what AD is - LDAP with MS
extensions) and you would solve latency problems when Asterisk would query
AD instead of clunky MAPI. Here's a cool script to export contacts in a
public folder to AD:

http://www.msexchange.org/articles/Migrating-Contacts-Distribution-Lists-Out
look-Active-Directory.html

The problem with this is maintenance, since now you have 2 contact
databases. Making sure they are sync'd wouldn't be an automatic process and
invariably would mean that an admin would have to fire up ADSI Edit every
once in a while. This is mitigated by how often you change contacts. In an
org where contacts change rarely, or never this isn't a problem. Where I
work, contacts nmber in the THOUSANDS and change EVERY DAY. The
administrative overhead of maintaining those guys in AD is brutal, and
that's why at my work I have basically banned using public folders as a
contact manager and insisted that we use SQL server with a web front-end,
this makes things simple for the maintainer, extensible and fast, and SQL
server plugs into everything.

hth



-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Hanselman [mailto:SteveH at brendata.co.uk]
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 3:18 AM
To: support at sjobeck.com; asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] CID lookup from an Exchange Public folder


We have a public folder full of contacts, but I understood that you
could only access this if the contacts were contacts in AD?

I was planning on doing a match on telephone number, mobile number and
fax.  And then pulling a shortened version of the name as the caller ID,

Steve


-----Original Message-----
From: Jason SJOBECK [mailto:jason at sjobeck.com] On Behalf Of
support at sjobeck.com
Sent: 16 December 2005 21:48
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Cc: Steve Hanselman
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] CID lookup from an Exchange Public folder

Steve,

You can get to anything in Exchange via LDAP. What is and or is not
working? Where are you entering the callerID info you want pulled?
Please see attachment for where you might want to enter this. Please
share if you get this.

Cheers.

Jason


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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:29:12 -0000
From: "Steve Hanselman" <SteveH at brendata.co.uk>
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] CID lookup from an Exchange Public folder
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Has anybody done this?

I looked at LDAP but you can't get to them that way, I'm considering
either a timed export, or some other way (can you access them via IMAP?
Or by wget on the owa web structure?)

Steve

 


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