Difference between revisions of "Exchange address book in thunderbird"

Revision as of 16:52, 21 March 2013

The DTU wide address book available for outlook users can also be made accessable for thunderbird. Do the following:

1. Due to a selfsigned certificate add windc-lisa.win.dtu.dk to the list of sites that thunderbird trust even if the certificate is selfsigned: Go to Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> certificates -> View certificates -> Servers -> Add exception and type windc-lisa.win.dtu.dk:636
2. Go to Tools -> Address book -> File -> New -> LDAP Directory and fill out like this:
   Name: DTU
   Hostname: windc-lisa.win.dtu.dk
   Base DN: OU=DTUBaseUsers,DC=win,DC=dtu,DC=dk
   Port number: 636
   Bind DN: XXXX@win.dtu.dk
   where XXXX is your DTU username. Make sure Use secure connection (SSL) is ticked.
3. In the Address Book,go to View -> Show Name As and choose Last,First og First, Last (but not displayname)

Hints:

• You cannot search on a combination of first and last name, i.e. a search on "Anders Overgaard Bjarklev" returns nothing while a search on "Anders Overgaard" or "Bjarklev" provides the expected result.
• The address book is only available from DTU IP addresses (but not DTU wireless). Download a offline copy to have it available from outside DTU. However, using a offline copy has reported as working rather unstable.

Note: this setup is not widely tested yet but basic functionality should be OK.