From: gregarican <greg.kujawa@...>
Date: 2005-08-14T05:11:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Is this possible?

gregarican wrote:

> Thanks for the tip. I will have to see about our Exchange box. It's
> v5.5 and I know v2003 offers that as a connector option. If I can use
> LDAP that would make things a snap.

My Exchange 5.5 box did offer the LDAP connector out of the box. But
it's only for the Directory Services portion of the server. The
Contacts are located in the Information Store so unfortunately I cannot
access them through LDAP to couple together with SQL data for my CRM
app. There are other ways I suppose, as alluded to in this article I
googled...
http://www.mail-archive.com/perl-ldap@perl.org/msg00033.html.

If I am able to pull this things off it should be quite a hodge-podge.
A Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 wifi client using xmlrpc to connect to a
Windows-based host that in turn would use DBI to connect to a MSSQL
database for customer purchasing history as well as would use LDAP (now
possibly CDO?) to connect to a Microsoft Exchange Information Store to
pull corresponding Contact details. Starting to get a headache :-) At
least the fact I am trying to do this using Ruby makes the project seem
more fun!