[TriLUG] ldap authentication from Active directory or NTDS

[Jon Carnes]

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 14:33, Ryan Leathers wrote:
> Getting a bit off topic, but I have used the SuSE OpenExchange product
> mentioned and can confirm that it works great for Outlook users except
> for calendar sharing / meeting invitations.  It has its own web based
> stuff which works great, but Outlook users really just want it to all
> happen in Outlook.  
> 
> Which do you think will happen first:
> A) A new Outlook upgrade will handle calendaring using an open standard
> B) End users will lose interest in calendaring stuff
> C) SuSE or somebody else will figure out how to make this work
> D) On the coat tails of their SFU announcement Microsoft will port all
> applications to Linux to ease the integration troubles of customers 
> 

I opt for C) and I think Ximian/Novell will be the ones to bring it to
market.  Ximian has already de-bugged the mapi code used by Exchange so
they are a step ahead of the pack.

Jon