Convergence Address Book Cutomization

I had installed Convergence and found that the corp Address book shows only person and group entry. I am planning to replace the old webmail application with Convengence but our end users were used to browse the whole organization structure tree with ou and groups. Is it possible to customize Convergence Address book so that it will show the whole organization structure tree? Maybe I should start to learn Ajax scripts since the Convergence was written in dojo framework? How to make Address book show the ou entry?

colinlin97 wrote:
I had installed Convergence and found that the corp Address book shows only person and group entry.What version of Convergence are you running (./iwcadmin -V)?
How many people/group entries is the Corporate Address Book meant to display?
I am planning to replace the old webmail application with Convengence but our end users were used to browse the whole organization structure tree with ou and groups.Which "old webmail" are you referring to? UWC/CE or Messenger Express or some other third-party product?
Is it possible to customize Convergence Address book so that it will show the whole organization structure tree? No. The Corporate Directory interface is not designed to display the underlying LDAP organisation structure.
Regards,
Shane.

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Convergence Address Book customization.

I have disabled "Personal Address Book" option under Address Book. Now, when I login and click on Address Book Service, ViewerContainer pane shows a blank page. How do I set default page to be loaded for ViewerCOntainer?.
I see this issue only when PAB is disabled.
Thanks

colinlin97 wrote:
I had installed Convergence and found that the corp Address book shows only person and group entry.What version of Convergence are you running (./iwcadmin -V)?
How many people/group entries is the Corporate Address Book meant to display?
I am planning to replace the old webmail application with Convengence but our end users were used to browse the whole organization structure tree with ou and groups.Which "old webmail" are you referring to? UWC/CE or Messenger Express or some other third-party product?
Is it possible to customize Convergence Address book so that it will show the whole organization structure tree? No. The Corporate Directory interface is not designed to display the underlying LDAP organisation structure.
Regards,
Shane.

Convergence Address Book issue

Hi
./iwcadmin -V
Sun Convergence 1.0-13.01 (built April 12 2010 - 01:27:52)
One of our users has reported that if she goes into the address book the first contact is already automatically selected, this leads to unintended recipients getting the email, I have had a look at the Convergence 2 demo and this is still the case. Is this the desired behaviour or is it a bug?
Thanks
David

dubred wrote:
One of our users has reported that if she goes into the address book the first contact is already automatically selected, this leads to unintended recipients getting the email, I have had a look at the Convergence 2 demo and this is still the case. Is this the desired behaviour or is it a bug?This is the expected behaviour. There is an existing Request For Enhancement to have this behaviour configurable.
RFE#6952339 - "Need preference for turning on/off first entry selected in Address Book"
Please raise this RFE with your Sun/Oracle account manager.
Regards,
Shane.

Customize Convergence Address Book Search Field to Search on Organization

We have a requirement for users to be able to search the corporate address book by organization. Is it possible to add a Organization option to the search filter drop down in the Address Book browser page?
Currently there are only options to search on the following attributes:
1. Display Name or Email
2. First Name
3. Last Name
4. Phone Number
We are using Convergence 2-0.06
Thanks!

This solved it for me: https://discussions.apple.com/message/15788900#15788900

Communication Express Address Book problem

Hi
System Messaging Server 7.0-3.01 32bit (built Dec 9 2008)
libimta.so 7.0-3.01 32bit (built 09:08:43, Dec 9 2008)
Using /opt/sun/comms/messaging/config/imta.cnf
SunOS 5.10 Generic_137137-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240
Sun Java(TM) System Communications Express 6.3
Sun Java Convergence 1u3
After install Sun Java Convergence Address book in Communication Express gone. It showing white page after clicking on Address book tab. Address book is working fine under Convergence.

luk4s1984 wrote:
System Messaging Server 7.0-3.01 32bit (built Dec 9 2008)
libimta.so 7.0-3.01 32bit (built 09:08:43, Dec 9 2008)Convergence 1u3 requires MS7u3 and above. You can use the "commpkg upgrade" command to migrate to MS7u3 64-bit.
Sun Java(TM) System Communications Express 6.3 What is the exact patch level of UWC/CE (./showrev -p | grep uwc)?
After install Sun Java Convergence Address book in Communication Express gone. It showing white page after clicking on Address book tab. Address book is working fine under Convergence.Which web-container are you running (Sun WebServer7/App-Server 9.1/Glassfish 2.1)?
Are you running UWC/CE and Convergence in the same web-container?
What JDK version is in use by the web-container hosting UWC/CE?
Regards,
Shane.

Access the CE Address Book outside of CE

Hello all,
I have searched high and low and have not been able to find anything outside of CE that is capable of accessing the CE AB. In my search, I came across the Sun Portal AB channel and the CE Sync but neither of these fits our needs. Ideally, we would like to be able to access the AB using Thunderbird.
If anyone has dealt with this requirement in the past and has some experiences/solutions/disasters to share, please do.
Regards,
Kamil.

kamiljdk wrote:
I have searched high and low and have not been able to find anything outside of CE that is capable of accessing the CE AB.The Comms-Express (and Convergence) address-book uses a private interface (WABP) so only Sun products make use of it e.g. Sun Outlook Connector, Sync and so forth.
In my search, I came across the Sun Portal AB channel and the CE Sync but neither of these fits our needs. Ideally, we would like to be able to access the AB using Thunderbird.There is no plugin for Thunderbird that I am aware of that can access the private CE/Convergence address-book interface. The future plan is to move towards a more standardised mechanism for address-book (contacts) access, namely CardDAV. This however is still some time off.
Regards,
Shane.

Searching Corporate Address book in Convergence 1u3

It appears that searching by surname in the corporate address book is not working in our deployment of convergence: display name and and uid works. This is the value in our iwc config
ab.corpdir.[default].searchattr = entry/displayname,@uid,person/surname
Is that correct, if not what should I set?
TIA,
Dan
Edited by: th14 on Oct 30, 2009 8:00 AM

Thanks; It appears I had VLV indexes configured on the DS but forgot to set it in convergence
Cheers

Convergence Corporate address book

Good Morning,
We are currently running Convergence patch 4 and i noticed a small issue the the Address book. In particular the corporate directory,
when highlighting the corp directory tab in convergence there is an option to "add to address book" function.
When clicking on this button, it will throw an error stating "Save contact failed".
I imagine the problem stems from the address book being a corporate directory will not allow any normal user to modify the corp address book.
But from a user perspective it is very confusing, because they believe clicking on the entry and the "add to address book" button will allow them
to add the entry to the personal address book tab.
Is my assumption correct?
Thanks.

continuation of the aboves debug
ADDRESS_BOOK: DEBUG from com.sun.comms.client.ab.wabp.WABPEngine Thread httpSSLWorkerThread-8080-4 ipaddress=some.ip.address.com sessionid=60c7655bd8b9c09e42eddc1f3863 at 11:24:57,811- cookie = JSESSIONID=60c7655bd8b9c09e42eddc1f3863; iwc-auth=lang=en-us:token=moU4GZopM7:path=/iwc
ADDRESS_BOOK: DEBUG from com.sun.comms.client.ab.wabp.WABPEngine Thread httpSSLWorkerThread-8080-4 ipaddress=some.ip.address.com sessionid=60c7655bd8b9c09e42eddc1f3863 at 11:24:57,812- connection = keep-alive
ADDRESS_BOOK: DEBUG from com.sun.comms.client.ab.wabp.WABPEngine Thread httpSSLWorkerThread-8080-4 ipaddress=some.ip.address.com sessionid=60c7655bd8b9c09e42eddc1f3863 at 11:24:57,814- host = some.domain.com
ADDRESS_BOOK: DEBUG from com.sun.comms.client.ab.wabp.WABPEngine Thread httpSSLWorkerThread-8080-4 ipaddress=some.ip.address.com sessionid=60c7655bd8b9c09e42eddc1f3863 at 11:24:57,815- multivalued parameters will be seperated with ;
ADDRESS_BOOK: DEBUG from com.sun.comms.client.ab.wabp.WABPEngine Thread httpSSLWorkerThread-8080-4 ipaddress=some.ip.address.com sessionid=60c7655bd8b9c09e42eddc1f3863 at 11:24:57,817- srcbookid = e11dd4bbfc334;
ADDRESS_BOOK: DEBUG from com.sun.comms.client.ab.wabp.WABPEngine Thread httpSSLWorkerThread-8080-4 ipaddress=some.ip.address.com sessionid=60c7655bd8b9c09e42eddc1f3863 at 11:24:57,819- destbookid = e11dd4bbfc143;
ADDRESS_BOOK: DEBUG from com.sun.comms.client.ab.wabp.WABPEngine Thread httpSSLWorkerThread-8080-4 ipaddress=some.ip.address.com sessionid=60c7655bd8b9c09e42eddc1f3863 at 11:24:57,820- entryid = sbm2003;
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ADDRESS_BOOK: DEBUG from com.sun.comms.client.ab.wabp.WABPEngine Thread httpSSLWorkerThread-8080-4 ipaddress=some.ip.address.com sessionid=60c7655bd8b9c09e42eddc1f3863 at 11:24:57,825- dojo.preventCache = 1232555181019;
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ADDRESS_BOOK: DEBUG from com.sun.comms.client.ab.coresrv.DBHandler Thread httpSSLWorkerThread-8080-4 ipaddress=some.ip.address.com sessionid=60c7655bd8b9c09e42eddc1f3863 at 11:24:57,830- Entered DBHandler.getDBPluginMapFromURL(ldap://corpdirectory)
ADDRESS_BOOK: DEBUG from com.sun.comms.client.ab.coresrv.DBHandler Thread httpSSLWorkerThread-8080-4 ipaddress=some.ip.address.com sessionid=60c7655bd8b9c09e42eddc1f3863 at 11:24:57,845- Evaluating ldap:// if matches with ldap://corpdirectory
ADDRESS_BOOK: DEBUG from com.sun.comms.client.ab.coresrv.DBHandler Thread httpSSLWorkerThread-8080-4 ipaddress=some.ip.address.com sessionid=60c7655bd8b9c09e42eddc1f3863 at 11:24:57,862- Evaluating ldap://corpdirectory if matches with ldap://corpdirectory
ADDRESS_BOOK: DEBUG from com.sun.comms.client.ab.coresrv.DBHandler Thread httpSSLWorkerThread-8080-4 ipaddress=some.ip.address.com sessionid=60c7655bd8b9c09e42eddc1f3863 at 11:24:57,864- Match found: ldap://corpdirectory
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Unable to establish a session with the Address Book Server

I have installed the following
Sun Java System Messaging Server 7 Update 3
Sun Java System Calendar Server 6.3
Sun Java System Directory Server 6.3.1
GlassFish Enterprise Server 2.1 Patch 2 with HADB support
Delegated Administrator 7
Sun Convergence 1 Update 3
as per the instruction here
http://wikis.sun.com/display/CommSuite7/Sun+Java+Communications+Suite+7+on+a+Single+Host
My problem is that when I open outlook and try to add a new contact, I get a message saying:
Unable to establish a session with the Address Book Server. Contact your server administrator for help or try later.
When using webmail, I can add contacts just fine.
How can I fix this problem?
Thanks
Edited by: Nevron on 26 ??? 2010 11:31 ??

Nevron wrote:
My problem is that when I open outlook and try to add a new contact, I get a message saying:
Unable to establish a session with the Address Book Server. Contact your server administrator for help or try later.Refer here:
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5424727
You need to log a Sun support request to get the latest Convergence patch.
Regards,
Shane.

Outlook Connector - Address book - Global Address List

Using Outlook Connector version 7.2.402.1 on both Outlook 2003 and 2007 I am having an issue when trying to view the Global Address List. The vertical scroll bar doesn't activate unless I resize my Address Book window. Even after that it doesn't work that well. It is very erratic.
I have set up a VLV index for the Address book as follows:
dn: cn=outlook_connector_browsing_index,cn=xyz,cn=ldbm database,cn=plugins,cn=config
cn: outlook_connector_browsing_index
objectclass: top
objectclass: vlvSearch
vlvbase: o=xyz.edu,dc=xyz,dc=edu
vlvfilter: (&(mail=*)(cn=*))
vlvscope: 2
dn: cn=Sort cn,cn=outlook_connector_browsing_index,cn=xyz,cn=ldbm database,cn=plugins,cn=config
cn: Sort cn
objectclass: top
objectclass: vlvIndex
vlvenabled: 1
vlvsort: cn
Doing a tail -f on the access log while using the Address Book I can see the VLV index being used. Is there something buggy with the Outlook Connector or is there something I missed in the VLV index?
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Scott

karl.rossing wrote:
It does not seem to work with SSL connections. When Outlook starts up, I get an error that it cannot connect the address book server.I was able to find the following that may be a cause for your problem:
http://wikis.sun.com/display/CommSuite/Connector+for+Microsoft+Outlook+7.3+Release+Notes
6228253 : Login to Address Book server fails through Outlook.
Users are unable to log into the Address Book server though Outlook if the Address Book (in Communications Express) is in SSL mode.
Workaround: Open Communications Express within Internet Explorer and permanently accept the self-signed certificate.In this case instead of Communications Express, you would log into Convergence using the SSL path (https://server.domain.com/iwc) and permanently accept the certificate.
Regards,
Shane.

How to add Custom Address Book Application?

I need add my custom address book application, so I has reading docs and wikis about convergence customization but no see clear how to.
I take a dojo tutorial for change event from addres book buttons but may be are not the best practice.
Somebody know information source for solve this please.
Thanks.

JCV_ wrote:
I need add my custom address book application, so I has reading docs and wikis about convergence customization but no see clear how to.The "YahooABSPlugin" code in the c11n_sample directory may provides some guidance.
If this still doesn't help then you could contact Sun to get help from Sun Professional Services. Writing a custom Convergence application is far from trivial.
Regards,
Shane.

Personal Address Book in clients other than Outlook ( e.g. Thunderbird )

Does anybody know what the latest is on PAB integration in Thunderbird. This is a big turn-off for using JES. I am looking at the JCS for two reasons 1.) as an alternative to Ms proprietary lock-in and 2.) for an more open platform to integrate a some of our own software. It's quite frustrating that Sun are supporting Outlook almost exclusively. Convergence is great, but not a replacement for a thick email client. I really like Thunderbird but I can't access personal address books.
Any links for how to add a shared address book in Thunderbird? I'm sure I managed to sync at least the corporate address book when I reviewed JCS 5, but i can't remember and can't find a how to.
I have even considered writing a Thunderbird addon myself to access Address Books using ldap but it seems the PAB entries are locked by Directory Manager access and not available to the PAB user. Is there anywhere else to locate the PAB entries other than at "dn=piPStoreOwner=euan,o=potensol.com,o=PiServerDb" ?

shane_hjorth wrote:
ethoms wrote:
Does anybody know what the latest is on PAB integration in Thunderbird.There is no integration that I am aware of or any planned on the horizon. A major limitation to any development of LDAP PAB integration is the lack of LDAP write support in Thunderbird. Any future movement will be more towards CardDAV as per:
http://wikis.sun.com/display/CommSuite/Project+Aries
It's quite frustrating that Sun are supporting Outlook almost exclusively.Sun is expending a large amount of resources (staff) into the Lightning project which is providing calendar functionality into Thunderbird. That is why there has been so much progress on this front over the past 12 - 18 months. Sun has also rolled Lightning out internally giving it even higher visibility.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/calendar/
I'm sure this group would appreciate any feedback, testing etc. that you could provide.
Convergence is great, but not a replacement for a thick email client. I really like Thunderbird but I can't access personal address books.I agree it is definitely a limitation but at this time priorities are elsewhere.
I'm sure I managed to sync at least the corporate address book when I reviewed JCS 5, but i can't remember and can't find a how to.Accessing the read-only corporate address-book should be relatively straight-forward. A quick google shows up a number of examples e.g.
http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/ldapsettings/mozilla.html
I have even considered writing a Thunderbird addon myself to access Address Books using ldap but it seems the PAB entries are locked by Directory Manager access and not available to the PAB user. Is there anywhere else to locate the PAB entries other than at "dn=piPStoreOwner=euan,o=potensol.com,o=PiServerDb" ?The other way would be to access the data using the WAPB protocol to the Convergence/UWC installation which is what Outlook Connector uses to access the address-book information. Unfortunately this protocol isn't yet publicly available. Feel free to push this with your Sun Account Manager.Regards,
Shane.Thank's Shane, your responses are always thorough and very helpful.Thanks for the link for LDAP shared address books in Thunderbird, I think that was the very article I used last time, should have bookmarked it.
I think it was harsh to say "It's quite frustrating that Sun are supporting Outlook almost exclusively.", I didn't realise they had involvement on the lightning project. Since my orignal post I have managed to install the plugin (v 0.8) and connect to my calendars. For feedback, so far it looks awesome, I was so impressed to see my tasks I added in convergence, in Thunderbird. I do recommend a 'how to' guide on Sun's website explaining exactly how to connect to it (couldn't find one myself from google). The 'how to' on mozilla's site forgets to mention that port must be specified (if it's not port 80, I use single-host deployment). Yet to try the experimental caching feature, will give feedback on that another time.
Will check out CardDAV shortly, thanks for link.
Overall, I am really happy with the JCS. If PAB and shared address book read/write/cache are implemented in Thunderbird/Evolution/Outlook then it would be the perfect comms suite. Servers seems to run really well although I have not put any real load on them yet. :-)

Address book in piserverdb tree

Hello
if my knowledge is correct, the address book is stored in the o=piservdb tree in the Directory server.
but how is that data stored? because when I export an ldif of o=piservdb tree and i look for a certain user which i know has nearly 2000 contacts in his AB i can only find a few entries (about 7)
so what is the best way to backup the address book of that user only? the database has also to be backupped or only exporting the o=piservdb is enough?
and having a ldif export of a o=piservdb if i restore that with dsconf import ldif o=piservdb, it will be overwrite everything, for all users? how can it be restored for only one user?
another question, we have an user that has every entry duplicated in his address book, he has about 1500 entries b ut in the uwc/convergence, there are 3000 records and each record appears twice.
I will be extremely grateful if you can give me direction how to solve my current address book questions and issues.
kindest regards
Mario G

sharularity wrote:
Address book in Lion is terrible.
Any chance Apple will go back to the address book in Leopard?
I doubt it but who knows. Maybe you can look for an alternative to buy from the App Store.
Otherwise give your feedback at
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Disabling auto-complete on corp address book

Is there a way to disable auto-complete on corp address book on a per user basis?
Edited by: eolair on Apr 28, 2010 9:03 AM

DNReddy wrote:
iwcadmin CLI option to get/set system-wide option to enable/disable address auto-complete from corp AB:
# iwcadmin -o user.common.corpabautocompleteenabled -v true/false (default is false)I assume you mean "client.enablecorpabautocomplete".
LDAP attribute for a per-user option:
sunUCExtendedUserPrefs: corpDirAutoCompleteEnabled=true/false
Per-user preference (option), if present overrides the system-wide setting.So it does. Unfortunately there is no way for the end-user to change this setting via the default Convergence interface.
I've logged an RFE to have an option added however I still don't understand what the use-case is:
RFE #6948297 - "Provide client-side option to enable/disable corporate address autocomplete"
Regards,
Shane.

ACI for corporate address book search

Hi,
I am using IDS52 and IMS52. My exisiting domain is abc.com. Due to certain circumstance, I have created another domain called; xyz.abc.com under the same messaging server. I do not want users from abc.com to see xyz.abc.com email address when they do a corporate address book search using their email client, eg:outlook express.
I have created one aci under xyz.abc.com
(targetattr = "*") (target = "ldap:///o=xyz.abc.com,dc=abc,dc=com") (version 3.0;acl "test";deny (read,search) userdn != "ldap:///o=xyz.abc.com,dc=abc,dc=com??sub?(objectclass=inetOrgPerson)";))
Using this aci I am not only block people from abc.com to search xyz.abc.com address. In fact, people in xyz.abc.com also blocked from searching the address under their domain.
Can somebody help me, is there anything wrong with my aci? How should i rewrite it? Please help!! Thank you

Hi Jim,
I was able to reproduce this on IWC 137631-10 (latest patch).
This is related to an existing bug, which is not fixed yet:
Bug 6795529 Corporate address book - no VLV index: search by firstname/lastname/email doesn't work
According to the developers, if VLV is not enabled in IWC, IWC/Convergence will only search by displayname (even if the user chooses lastname). The bug fix is to NOT display the options to search by lastname etc, if VLV is not enabled.
The search by lastname works for me after I enable VLV in IWC, as described in the IWC admin guide:
http://wikis.sun.com/display/CommSuite/Sun+Convergence+Administrative+Tasks#SunConvergenceAdministrativeTasks-vlvbrowsingdirectoryserver
http://wikis.sun.com/display/CommSuite/Sun+Convergence+Administrative+Tasks#SunConvergenceAdministrativeTasks-HowdoIconfigureConvergencetomakeuseofVirtualListView(VLV)forCorporateDirectory%3F
Regards,
-- Wei Yee

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