Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Mac clients can not do LDAP (GAL) lookups

An office reported that Mac clients were unable to do LDAP (GAL) lookups from Entourage or Outlook 2011.

All the clients were using the local DC for LDAP; if this was changed to another DC the clients could do lookups just fine.

It was found that the local DC was not a global catalog server.  When this was fixed, lookups worked.

Here is the TechNet article on determining whether or not a DC is a GC  it:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc786686%28WS.10%29.aspx

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