Carr, Chris wrote:
Let's say that the three clients I want to share contacts are Outlook, Evolution and Thunderbird. Would it be possible to use the AD schema for the LDAP server and for all three clients, replacing the default schemata of Evolution and Thunderbird?
Since Evolution and Thunderbird are open source, you can of course modify them to do whatever you want.
Um, yes. I meant would it be possible without recompiling anything. Evolution, for example, can import a CSV file of Outlook contacts perfectly, so the mapping is stored somewhere. If it's in an external file, and the evolutionperson.schema is also read from an external file, it might be possible to persuade Evolution to use Outlook fields by default. If the schema is hard-coded, then yes it would need source hacking and recompiling, which is not worth the trouble.
Your searches seem to have missed some useful hits: http://feldt.com/work/projects/openLDAP/
includes scripts for importing Outlook CSV exports to LDIF, and Vcards to LDIF. So apparently someone else has already figured out what schema are involved.
I get before taking on Outlook. Does anyone know where to find the AD schema? I can find dozens of pages about it, but can't actually download it from any of them.
As usual, Microsoft is not very forthcoming with docs, but there's quite a bit of analysis already done here. http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/295.html
Ah, thanks. That's very helpful.