Mickey Stevens:
Thanks for your response on this thread:
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From: Mickey Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 14:15:21 -0500
Subject: Re: SP2: Increased LDAP activity? Other issues...
Aha! Also a more blunt solution, see further below...
> I've noted increased activity of Entourage contacting WhoWhere, my default
> directory service --LDAP -- whatever that is about.
You can adjust this by going to Entourage > Preferences, selecting "Compose"
under "Mail & News Preferences", and toggling the first two settings.
"Exchange" is something a lone user would not use, I'm guess. Sounds very corporate to me.
> Did SP2 affect the directory service settings or change the internals?
Yes, as part of the improved Exchange functionality with Global Address
Lists, which are accessed using the LDAP protocol.
Yeah, makes a LOT of sense.
> I'm not sure how LDAP supports an individual, as opposed to a corporate
> user. I would appreciate a brief description of why I shouldn't simply
> remove all the directory service accounts.
The idea was that people would type in the names of friends and then they
could look up the person's e-mail address in the LDAP directory. The
problem is that these days, people don't want to share their e-mail
addresses publicly because of spammers. Also, these directories would today
be enormous, making it difficult to locate an individual. As a result, the
popularity of the feature for home use has dwindled.
Your colleague, Beth R., suggested simply deleting the servers. That ought to keep the LDAP quiet... and it seems to have worked.
Curious, especially as I'm exchanging notes with a college who has problems like this in Word... and I don't. Well, since it doesn't seem to be a problem for me any more in Entourage, I'll drop the point.
> What I have NOT seen yet under SP2 is a significant slowing of keyboard
> response, which makes message composition painful. This has occurred for me
> in the past at random intervals for no discernable reason.
>
> Was there any part of SP2 intended to such an issue?
I don't know. I haven't seen this occur.
Thanks
Henry
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