Types of messengers for mac
I've been using microsoft messenger for mac, and it's just not cutting it.
i'd like to continue using my hotmail account, and not have to get a new address, and be able to add hotmail contacts (since none of my friends have otherwise)
are there any other options?
thanks
I'm using "Fire" which is a multi service app. Works with my Hotmail account. You might find the program at http://www.versiontracker.com
Regards,
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-- jsc
-- Export Outlook Contacts
-- (c) 2012 J. Scott Carr. The script is made available for free use, with no
-- warranty, under the Creative Commons license agreement.
-- This script has only been tested on Mac OS X 10.6.8 with Micrsoft Outlook for
-- Mac 2011 version 14.1.4.
property byCategory : "By category"
property byPattern : "Names matching pattern"
property vcardFormat : "VCard"
property csvFormat : "CSV"
-- main
set contactsToExport to {}
-- Get the contact selection
set contactsToExport to get_contacts_to_export()
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return
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-- Shall we export to vcard or CSV?
set theFormat to vcard_or_csv()
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close access oFile
end try
return
end if
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display alert "Invalid format" as warning
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-- A side note. When I started this, I built options to enter a matching
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-- are much more robust in Outlook, and it would be easy to just use the
-- current selection.
-- There is some strange behavior that Outlook needs to have recently been
-- the front, active window.
on get_contacts_to_export()
set selectedContacts to {}
tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
set theSelection to selection
if class of theSelection is list then
if class of the first item of theSelection is contact then
copy theSelection to selectedContacts
end if
else
if class of theSelection is contact then
copy theSelection to selectedContacts
end if
end if
return selectedContacts
end tell
end get_contacts_to_export
-- vcard_or_csv()
-- Get the format to use when exporting contacts
on vcard_or_csv()
choose from list {vcardFormat, csvFormat} with prompt "Select export file format:"
if result is false then
return ""
else
return first item of result
end if
end vcard_or_csv
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-- Open the destination file for the export, returning the file descriptor or the error number
-- if the operation fails
on open_output_file(exportType)
-- Get the filename, letting "choose file name" deal with existing files.
set theDate to current date
set theTime to time of theDate
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set fileName to "contacts.csv"
else
set fileName to "contacts.vcf"
end if
try
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on error errText number errNum
return errNum
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try
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set oFile to open for access outputFile with write permission
set eof oFile to 0
on error errText number errNum
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try
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end try
return errNum
end try
return oFile
end open_output_file
-- export_to_vcard()
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on export_to_vcard(theContacts, outFile)
set vcards to {}
tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
repeat with aContact in theContacts
copy vcard data of aContact to the end of vcards
end repeat
end tell
repeat with aCard in vcards
write (aCard & linefeed) to outFile
end repeat
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-- export_to_csv()
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set csvFields to {}
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set csvFields to init_csv()
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set nFields to count csvFields
write first item of csvFields to outFile
repeat with i from 2 to nFields
write "," & item i of csvFields to outFile
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repeat with aContact in theContacts
write build_csv_line(csvFields, aContact) & linefeed to outFile
end repeat
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-- init_csv(): defines the fields to export when csv format is selected
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-- to export.
on init_csv()
set csvFields to {"first name", "last name", "middle name", "title", "nickname", "suffix", "phone", "home phone number", "other home phone number", "home fax number", "business phone number", "other business phone number", "busines fax number", "pager number", "mobile number", "home email", "work email", "other email", "company", "job title", "department", "assistant phone number", "home street address", "home city", "home state", "home country", "home zip", "business street address", "business city", "business state", "business country", "business zip", "home web page", "business web page", "note"}
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-- build_csv_line(): format one line for the csv file
-- Parameter csvFields determins which fields to include in the export.
-- Unfortunately I've not figured out how to use perl-style generation of
-- indirect references. If I could, this would have been much more elegant
-- by simply using the field name to refer to a Contact properly.
-- Note that email address are a special case as they're a list of objects in
-- Outlook. So these are handled specially in the export function and can only
-- be selected by the column names "home email", "work email", and "other email".
-- Outlook allows a contact to have more than one of each type of email address
-- but not all contact managers are the same. This script takes the first of
-- each type. So if a contact has more than one "home" email address, you will
-- only be able to export the first to a csv file. Suggest you clean up your
-- addresses in Outlook to adapt. The alternative is to support multiple
-- columns in the csv like "other email 1" and "other email 2", but that's not
-- supported in this version.
-- Another note. In this version, any embedded "return" or "linefeed" characters
-- found in a property of a contact are converted to a space. That means that
-- notes, in particular, will be reformated. That said, this gets arond a problem
-- with embedded carriage returns in address fields that throw off importing
-- the csv file.
-- Also note that at this time IM addresses aren't supported, but it's an easy add
-- following the same logic as email addresses.
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set csvLine to ""
set homeEmail to ""
set workEmail to ""
set otherEmail to ""
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set props to get properties of theContact
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else if type of anAddress is other then
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end if
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repeat with aFieldItem in csvFields
set aField to aFieldItem as text
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set aValue to get first name of props
else if aField is "last name" then
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set aValue to homeEmail
else if aField is "work email" then
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Now Here's what may be termed the icing on the cake: fairly well buried in the "DivX for Mac" install package is a pdf "read me." Among many other fables is THIS whopper:
"For online video tutorials visit the following URL in your web browser: http://go.divx.com/mac/tutorials"
I did just that, and though the link works, there IS no page on the DivX site for "Mac tutorials." When you click on the link, you get redirected to "http://support.divx.com/faq/view/supportFAQen100/video_tutorials_main." Except for a video tutorial under "DivX Converter_ -- for which I have no use -- entitled "How To Edit Your DivX Converter for Mac Output Settings," and these two: "How To Export To DivX In Final Cut Pro for Mac," and "How To Export To DivX Using QuickTime On A Mac" -- neither of which do me the slightest bit of good, since A) I don't use, nor can I afford, Final Cut Pro, and B) what good would it to to export ANYTHING to DivX when the DivX Player for Mac does not, and has never, done anything but hang until Force Quitted?
A brief digression on that very subject of "hanging:" there's a little section in the obscure "DivX for Mac" pdf that reads:
"5. Known issues
Network connection is lost during download
A lost network connection in the middle of a download may hang the DivX Player For Mac. If this occurs, you may 'Force Quit' the DivX Player For Mac by simultaneously clicking command-option-escape and selecting the application from the list or by right-clicking the icon in the dock and selecting 'Force Quit.' You may then resume the download by re-launching the DivX Player, selecting 'Download Manager” from the File menu and clicking 'Resume.'"
Wonderful advice, if I could ever get to the point where I was actually downloading something, but since MY particular edition of DivX Player for Mac saves me all that bother by hanging immediately upon launch, DivX has very kindly saved me the trouble of having to go through all that "Force Quit" - "Resume" nonsense. Of course, I never get to download anything or use the DivX Player on YouTube or anywhere else, so that's a bit of a downside.
So back to the putative "Mac tutorials" on the non-existent "http://go.divx.com/mac/tutorials" page: other than the three totally non-germane examples I cited above, there is nothing that I can find on the re-direct page (http://support.divx.com/faq/view/supportFAQen100/video_tutorials_main) that is the least concerned with the usage or behavior of any component of DivX on a Macintosh computer. That's certainly not uncommon, but for a company that purports to sell products that actually work on the Mac OS X platform, EVERYTHING about the DivX site is so totally Windows-centric, one would be inclined to believe that DivX is not even aware the Mac OS X platform exists. For example, here's the list of tutorials under "DivX 101 - Learn How" on the page that, according to the DivX for Mac Read Me, was supposed to solve all my problems with running DivX on a Mac:
Featured Video Tutorials
How to register your PS3 for DivX VOD playback
How do I make DivX player my default video player?
How to register your DivX Certified device with the DivX Plus Player
How to stream DivX Plus HD (MKV) files to your Xbox 360
How to use the DivX Plus Converter
Featured Text Guides
DivX Plus Converter for Windows User Guide
DivX Plus Player for Windows User Guide
DivX Codec 5.x User Guide
DivX Codec 6 and Virtual Dub Guide
It's wonderful that DivX has tutorials dealing with XBox360 and PS3, but the Mac seems to have been lost in the shuffle -- I think, from an aesthetic point, the guy in the sideways hat and the emphasis on animé and "blow 'em up" games in what few tutorials are actually there pretty much sums up DivX's idea of their market focus. Maybe they're right, but if this "free" version, that so far I have not been able to get to work as advertised on my 27" iMac, is supposed to entice any Mac user into forking over even the piddling $20.00 for the "Pro" version, the "free" version isn't DivX any "gotta have it" favors.
Now for the final mystery: I have two Safari -- v5.0.5 (6533.21.1) -- extensions from DivX:
1. DivX HiQ 2.1.1.94, which is supposed to allow you to watch videos on YouTube, Vimeo, etc. in the DivX Player for Mac, but refuses to work when enabled: EVERY SINGLE time I've selected DivX HiQ, the YouTube screen turns into the gray DivX player window for a few seconds, then an error window pops up that says "DivX Plus Web Player could not download the video, please check your internet connection."
2. DivX Plus Web Player HTML5 <video> 2.1.1.94, the little blurb in the Safari Extensions window for which says "Increase performance and video formats for your HTML5 <video>
Clicking on the "by DivX, Inc." link in the Safari Extensions window of either of these extensions takes me to http://www.divx.com/en/software/divx-plus/web-player
"High-quality video shouldn’t stop at your browser. DivX Plus® Web Player gives you the best web video performance around, even on sites using Flash®. The latest feature, DivX HiQ™ beta, lets you replace the default Flash player on popular sites for improved performance. Of course you can still watch stunning DivX® and DivX Plus HD (MKV) videos right in your browser, and even enjoy MKV features like multiple audio tracks, subtitles and 5.1 channel AAC audio."
That's all well and good, but, not when it doesn't work. I don't know what the story is with these Safari Extensions: a manual (unfortunately the only way you can do it), category by category search of Apple's "Safari Extensions Gallery" turns up NO information about these extensions, neither does -- as far as I can tell -- a search of the DivX site. Am I supposed to use BOTH extensions? Neither? One or the other? Which? So far, if I use them, I get the HiQ option in YouTube (and elsewhere), but when I click on it, I get the error message above, and the window reverts to the usual plain old YouTube window. If I disable the DivX Safari extensions, I don't even get the HiQ option.
Has ANYONE gotten the DivX for Mac Bundle v7.1, or even the DivX Plus Web Player for Mac, v2.1.1, to actually work on a Mac running OS X 10.6.7?
If so, PLEASE tell me how you got it to work.
I'd gladly for over the 20 bucks for this product if it actually worked, but not until it does.
Bart BrownWell, I can start banging my head against the brick wall again.
"I have never knowingly come across Divx in any shape or form. YouTube uses either Flash or HTML5."
I don't understand how you can make that statement, considering the discussion you participated in at:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/12210423#12210423
under: Apple Support Communities > Mac OS & System Software > Safari > Discussions
DivX Web Player and Safari
...from July 2009 to September 2010, sections of which you copied and pasted verbatim into this discussion, for example:
"Klaus1
Somerset, UK
Level 7 (22,700 points)
Re: Plug-ins
Jul 12, 2009 2:09 PM (in response to Martin Alper)
"...In Macintosh HD/Library/Quicktime/ delete any files relating to DivX (Perian already has them). However it should be noted that Perian is not an internet plugin and will not play DivX files imbedded on a website. For that you will need the DivX Player browser plugin available from http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/"
And on September 4, 2010:
"Klaus1
Somerset, UK
Level 7 (22,700 points)
Helpful AnswerRe: DivX Web Player and Safari
Sep 4, 2010 5:31 AM (in response to Philippe Pauwels)
You should read this support page http://perian.org/#support in case you need to delete older codecs. In Macintosh HD/Library/Quicktime/ delete any files relating to DivX (Perian already has them). However it should be noted that Perian is not an internet plugin and will not play DivX files imbedded on a website. For that you will need the DivX Player browser plugin available from http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/"
And, in reply to Philippe Pauwels response to the above post:
Philippe Pauwels
Level 1 (0 points)
Re: DivX Web Player and Safari
Sep 4, 2010 6:28 AM (in response to Klaus1)
Hi,
Thanks for your answer. After some more experimenting, i finally got it to work ... However, not every embedded DivX movie will play.
I just deleted another codec in the Macintosh HD/Library/Quicktime folder. (One of the codecs mentioned on http://perian.org/#support was still in the folder). Before I had only deleted the files whose name has "DivX" in it.
I did NOT install the DivX Web Player plugin.
Now some DivX videos play, some don't... So maybe I should re-install the DivX Web Plugin? But the Web Plugin never worked for me ... If I re-install it, won't I go back to where I started?
You replied, 10 minutes later:
Klaus1
Somerset, UK
Level 7 (22,700 points)
Re: DivX Web Player and Safari
Sep 4, 2010 6:38 AM (in response to Philippe Pauwels)
It could be that your previous DivX player was out of date.
As Perian says, you need both.
First, I certainly wish you (or my search of Apple Discussions, which, inexplicably, did not turn up this discussion) had referred me to this discussion before -- it would have saved a LOT of time.
Now, to your reply to Philippe Pauwels: "As Perian says, you need both." Both WHAT, exactly?
From the initial release of Perian 0.5, September 29, 2006, to the latest release, Perian 1.2.2 - Tuesday, April 13, 2011, there is not a single mention of DivX in the entire 2006 to 2011 version history. The only information on the Perian support page regarding DivX is the paragraph that states, in part, "Please consider removing obsolete QuickTime Components: ...DivX, DivX Decoder..."
Can you please tell me what you mean by "Perian says, you need both," in regard to putative DivX Extensions, Plug-Ins, Components, whatever?
Finally, on July 12, 2009, you posted, in a reply to martin Alper, a list of "the downloads and the settings you need in order to view/hear/play pretty much everything that the net can throw at you." Taking into consideration that it's 2 years later and most versions have newer updates -- including Mac OS X itself -- some items are no longer among us, and some NEW ones have shown up. could you please update or comment on this list, for the benefit of all sufferers?
Thank you very much,
Bart Brown
Your list as of July 12, 2009, taking into consideration your wise caveat that "nothing in life carries a guarantee!:
The setup described below has proved repeatedly successful on both PPC and Intel macs, but
It is known to work in the great majority of cases with Safari 3 and 4, QT 7.4.x, 7.5.x and 7.6 and OS 10.4.11 and 10.5.7.
Download and install (or re-install even if you already had them) the latest versions, suitable for your flavor of Mac, of:
RealPlayer 11.1 for Mac from:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15540
Flip4Mac WMV Player from http://www.telestream.net/flip4mac-wmv/overview.htm (Windows Media Player for the Mac is no longer supported, even by Microsoft)
Perian from http://perian.org/
You should read this support page http://perian.org/#support in case you need to delete older codecs.
The latest version of Adobe FlashPlayer can be obtained from here:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1ProdVersion=ShockwaveFlas h
(You can check here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/ to see which version you should install for your Mac and OS.
It is suggested that you first uninstall any previous version of Flash Player, using the uninstaller from here (make sure you use the correct one!):
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14157
and also that you follow the instructions closely, such as closing ALL applications first before installing. You must also carry out a permission repair after installing anything from Adobe.
You should also ensure that you have downloaded and installed the correct version for your Mac of Security Update 2009-001 (and for Tiger only, 2009-002). (N.B. Security Updates require both a restart and a permission repair.)
In Macintosh HD/Library/Quicktime/ delete any files relating to DivX (Perian already has them). However it should be noted that Perian is not an internet plugin and will not play DivX files imbedded on a website. For that you will need the DivX Player browser plugin available from http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/
Now go to Safari Preferences/Security, and tick the boxes under Web Content (all 4 of them) to enable Java.
Lastly open Audio Midi Setup (which you will find in the Utilities Folder of your Applications Folder) and click on Audio Devices. Make sure that both Audio Input and Audio Output, under Format, are set to 44100 Hz, and that you have selected 'Built in Audio'.
Important: Now repair permissions and restart.
You should also consider having the free VLC Player from http://www.videolan.org/ in your armory, as this plays almost anything that DVD Player might not.
There is an additional 'fix' you could try if you are having problems with Flash and Quicktime, depending on which type of Mac you have:
On Intel Macs, make sure that you are not running Safari in Rosetta. You can check this, and change it, in the Get Info window.
On PPC Macs, go to the Hard Disk/Library/Internet Plug-Ins folder, and drag the file 'QuickTime Plugin.webplugin' to the desktop. Quit and restart Safari. If things have improved you can trash that file. If they haven't put it back, as the lack of this plug-in can cause QT content in some widgets to cease functioning.
And there is an additional kid on the block: SilverLight. Microsoft has created their own version of what a replacement for Flash could be. You can read more about it here:
http://silverlight.net/
So, if you go to any sites that have been designed for this new Silverlight stuff, you can download the plug-in from here (but make certain that you are downloading SilverLight v.1.0 for OS X (10.4.8 upwards) if you are using a PPC Mac. Version 2 only works with Intel Macs:
http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/
Recommendation: Close all applications before installing any of the above, repair permissions, reboot, and repair permissions again.
Thanks again
Bart Brown
PS: You wrote "It is a pity you chose a camera that produces video in that format! As you have discovered it is incompatible with iMovie." Uhh, I don't know where this question came from -- more stray copying and pasting, perhaps? I have no camera, and am not trying to do anything pertinent to this discussion with iMovie. -
Cisco Jabber for Mac - Directory Lookup and Contact Fields
Hello,
After having issues myself with Cisco Jabber for Mac 9.2 specifically with Active Directory lookups not working, or contact information not populating (and therefore not being able to call users from the contact list as no telephone information exists) I am including a sample jabber-config.xml file that works for me.
Please note: there are many different ways to configure this. What I will be showing is the method that works for me and my deployment, which is pretty standard.
As always and as a disclaimer, once again, this is what has worked for my deployment scenario. Always keep backups of your configuration files, and always be mindful of anything you have configured already, especially in the jabber-config.xml file.
Background
My deployment is based on CUCM 9, with 1 publisher and 2 subscribers. I also have a CUCM IM & Presence 9.0 server. This assumes that you have already configured your deployment and Jabber is functioning already, albeit with the aforementioned issues.
As for Active Directory, my deployment will be based on Windows 2008 R2 Domain Controllers running in native 2008 mode. For this example, we will be searching directly against one of the DCs with a Global Catalogue role. Please be aware that in large deployments you will have to plan accordingly with regards to lookup traffic from Jabber clients to the DCs.
Also, as of Cisco Jabber for Mac 9, the client no longer can search via the CUCM internal directory (which may be made of local end users, Active Directory synced users, or a mix of both) and this must be done via a LDAP mechanism.
Scenario
In this deployment scenario, Cisco Jabber for Windows is working properly - you can search and add people from Active Directory, and contacts in your contact list have all the appropriate fields populated from Active Directory. However, when trying the same with Jabber for Mac, Jabber for iPhone or Jabber for iPad you notice that you cannot perform a directory lookup, and if you add people directly (for example, [email protected]) the user only has the IM field populated. No telephone, email or additional information is displayed.
Solution
Whereas Cisco Jabber for Windows uses the EDI mechanism (native Windows), whereby when running from a computer that is on the domain (or in the event that you are search for contacts in another Active Directory domain where a domain trust exists) , Jabber for Mac / iPhone / iPad uses the BDI mechanism.
In this case, you will need to provision a jabber-config.xml file that you will upload to your TFTP server (or Publisher) that will be "downloaded" by your Jabber for Mac client and also used by the iPhone and iPad client. You can configure many options in the jabber-config.xml file, but for this example we will place just the information that we need to order for these clients to request and display Active Directory information.
Please note that the configuration may vary depending on your deployment, but at the very least we will be:
- Configuring a DC where we will perform the lookup.
- Configure credentials that will be used to perform the lookup. This will be an Active Directory account that has read rights on the Active Directory domain. Please note that these credentials are saved in plain text in the file, so ensure that the account that you will be using is not privileged.
- Configure the server port that we will be using to perform the lookup.
- Configure the Search Base. This is basically where we want the directory lookup to happen. You can either choose for this lookup to start at the "base" of the domain (and therefore the search will iterate through all the user accounts and and OUs below the root base) or define a specific OU where you want to search.
Caution!
- There is a current limitation with Cisco Jabber for Mac whereby you can only have 1 search base configured. Please keep this in mind if, like me, you have multiple OUs (like an OU for each company in your organization) and under these OUs you have sub OUs as a user account container.
- If using the top level search base, unless you specify a filter, you will potentially be able to search for all user accounts in the domain. You will need to configure the <BDIBaseFilter> parameter if you want to fine tune your search ability.
Steps
These are the steps I have followed. Other steps or considerations may vary.
- Log in to your TFTP server and download the jabber-config.xml file and keep it as a backup. If you are already using the jabber-config.xml file for other purposes, do not worry - you can add your BDI information parameters inside.
- Remove the jabber-config.xml file
- Edit the jabber-config.xml file and configure thus:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config version="1.0">
<Directory>
<DirectoryServerType>BDI</DirectoryServerType>
<BDILDAPServerType>AD</BDILDAPServerType>
<BDIPrimaryServerName>DOMAIN CONTROLLER IP ADDRESS</BDIPrimaryServerName>
<BDIPresenceDomain>YOUR PRESENCE DOMAIN</BDIPresenceDomain>
<BDIServerPort1>3268</BDIServerPort1>
<BDISearchBase1>YOUR SEARCH BASE</BDISearchBase1>
<BDIConnectionUsername>[email protected]</BDIConnectionUsername>
<BDIConnectionPassword>PASSWORD</BDIConnectionPassword>
<BDIEnableTLS>0</BDIEnableTLS>
</Directory>
</config>
For example, let´s assume the following:
- Domain controller IP address is 10.1.1.2 .
- Your presence domain is test.local .
- Your search base will be test.local using the top level of the domain.
- Your username with which you will be doing your searches is called walt . Usually you can either identify walt as test.local\walt or [email protected] . It is always best, in these sort of scenarios, to use the UPN convention so we will be configuring a [email protected] .
- The password is the Active Directory password for the account walt .
- I have disabled TLS in my case. There are issues with the Jabber for Mac client when using other security methods.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config version="1.0">
<Directory>
<DirectoryServerType>BDI</DirectoryServerType>
<BDILDAPServerType>AD</BDILDAPServerType>
<BDIPrimaryServerName>10.1.1.2</BDIPrimaryServerName>
<BDIPresenceDomain>test.local</BDIPresenceDomain>
<BDIServerPort1>3268</BDIServerPort1>
<BDISearchBase1>DC=test,DC=local</BDISearchBase1>
<BDIConnectionUsername>[email protected]</BDIConnectionUsername>
<BDIConnectionPassword>walt01!</BDIConnectionPassword>
<BDIEnableTLS>0</BDIEnableTLS>
</Directory>
</config>
One you have configured the jabber-config.xml file, you will now need to upload it to you TFTP server. Once uploaded, you will need to restart the Cisco TFTP service. Again, my TFTP server is on my CUCM publisher, so:
- I go to Cisco Unified OS Administration on my Publisher server, TFTP File Management and I upload jabber-config.xml to / directory
- I then go to Cisco Unified Serviceability on my Publisher server, I locate the Cisco TFTP service and I restart the service
Once this is done, you can figure up your Jabber for Mac client. As a test, on your Mac (using Terminal) go to:
/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Cisco/Unified Communications/Jabber/Config
In here you will see several files, but what we want to see is jabber-config.xml . As soon as you start the Jabber for Mac client and log in, the jabber-config.xml file will download from your TFTP server and get saved here. When you see it appear, just type in your terminal window more jabber-config.xml and make sure that the output is the same as the xml file you created.
From there, try doing directory search. If you have previously added contacts and they still lack attribute information, you will need to remove them (sometimes it will not refresh properly) and add them again from the directory.
I will be updating this guide and ammending anything that is incorrect, but this is meant to be a quick checklist and steps to get this, at least in the most very basic version, up and running for Jabber for Mac.Hello,
Thanks for this post! It works, I can do lookup and also I can add found contact to contact list and get information about contact from LDAP.
One more question: - I can't get all information about contact. I don't get e.c mobile phone number and more others attributes. I have tried to expand your file as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config version="1.0">
<Directory>
<DirectoryServerType>BDI</DirectoryServerType>
<BDILDAPServerType>AD</BDILDAPServerType>
<BDIPrimaryServerName>IP of AD</BDIPrimaryServerName>
<BDIPresenceDomain>Presence Domain</BDIPresenceDomain>
<BDIServerPort1>3268</BDIServerPort1>
<BDISearchBase1> Search Base</BDISearchBase1>
<BDIConnectionUsername>User</BDIConnectionUsername>
<BDIConnectionPassword>Password</BDIConnectionPassword>
<BDIEnableTLS>0</BDIEnableTLS>
<BDISipUri>msRTCSIP-PrimaryUserAddress</BDISipUri>
<BDIPhotoSource>thumbnailPhoto</BDIPhotoSource>
<BDIBusinessPhone>telephoneNumber</BDIBusinessPhone>
<BDIMobilePhone>mobile</BDIMobilePhone>
<BDIHomePhone>homePhone</BDIHomePhone>
<BDIOtherPhone>otherTelephone</BDIOtherPhone>
<BDITitle>title</BDITitle>
<BDICompanyName>company</BDICompanyName>
<BDILocation>co</BDILocation>
<BDIPostalCode>postalCode</BDIPostalCode>
<BDICity>l</BDICity>
<BDIState>st</BDIState>
<BDIStreetAddress>streetAddress</BDIStreetAddress>
</Directory>
</config>
But it didn't help.
When I capture lookup via Wireshark, I can see that Jabbers sends search request with bunch of attributes, but from LDAP answer contains only 8 attributes. (see attached screenshots)
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