SAC Display In Address Book option

[mnauta]

Has anyone had a similar problem with the Display In Address Book option. Here are three scenarios.

Scenario One
1) Create a premium user
2) In SAC Uncheck Display in Address Book
3) Open SWA, check address book, and user is listed in address book
4) Open MS Outlook check address book, user is not listed

Scenario Two
1) Permium user
2) In SAC change from Display in address book to uncheck Display in Address book.
3) User still listed in MS Outlook address book and SWA address book

Scenario Three
1) In SAC change user from Premium to Standard user
2) Change from Display in Address Book to uncheck Display in address book
3) MS Outlook address book user is no longer listed
4) In SWA user is still listed in address book.

I have the following versions:
scalix-SWA 10.0.5.1
scalix 10.0.1.3
scalix-sac 10.0.1.21

Thanks
Manuel

[ScalixSupport]

To hide entries from an ldap query edit swa.properties, find the line that starts with swa.ldap.1.filter=, and add (!(omexcdadirectory=*)) to the end like so:

swa.ldap.1.filter=(&((|(&(cn=%s*)(mail=*))(&(sn=%s*)(mail=*))(&(gn=%s*)(mail=*))(mail=%s*)(&(omalias=%s*)(mail=*)))(!(omexcdadirectory=*))))

Due diligence requires me to tell you that there is a known issue when hiding names from the address book. You will find in Outlook that the type down feature of the address book will not behave as expected. If you open the address book and start typing a name you will find, in some cases, that as you are narrowing your search with each successive letter that, at some point, the name returned will be completely unrelated to the characters you have typed.

There is a bug opened for this.

When you hide an entry for immediate results you have to run omexeccda, exit then restart outlook and swa.

Regards,
Don

[thecowster]

On a related note, how can the property "Display in address book" be modified from the command line?

We have a script to sync mailing lists from our LDAP, and want to ensure that all the external contacts in those mailing lists don't turn up in our system address book.

Couldn't see how to do this using omaddu or ommodu

Cheers
Andy

[les]

To hide entries from an ldap query edit swa.properties, find the line that starts with swa.ldap.1.filter=, and add (!(omexcdadirectory=*)) to the end like so:

swa.ldap.1.filter=(&((|(&(cn=%s*)(mail=*))(&(sn=%s*)(mail=*))(&(gn=%s*)(mail=*))(mail=%s*)(&(omalias=%s*)(mail=*)))(!(omexcdadirectory=*))))

I had the same issue with a client who just upgraded to 11.4.2

On other 11.4.1 sites there was no problem.

I found that the ldap query string has changed between versions. So i reset the 11.4.2 site to be the same as a working 11.4.1 install and it worked fine. Users, who were set to not display in the address book, were no longer visible in the address book.

FYI change the following in swa.properties.....

not working string...
swa.ldap.1.filter=(|(&(cn=%s*)(mail=*))(&(sn=%s*)(mail=*))(&(gn=%s*)(mail=*))(mail=%s*)(&(omalias=%s*)(mail=*)))

working string...
swa.ldap.1.filter=(&(!(omExCdaDirectory=*))(|(&(cn=%s*)(mail=*))(&(sn=%s*)(mail=*))(&(gn=%s*)(mail=*))(mail=%s*)(&(omalias=%s*)(mail=*))))

A restart of scalix-tomcat and httpd for good measure after that change was all that was needed.

Hope that helps.