Off Topic - Directory.app in Snow Leopard

[stevewood]

Totally not a Casper question, but why not pose it to the list.

I was just getting my users to start using the Directory.app application to
look up users, and then Apple comes along and does away with it. Does
anyone know of a replacement application under Snow Leopard?

Steve Wood
Director of IT
swood at integer.com

The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201
T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475

[ktrampe]

Good Morning Steve,
I believe Address Book would probably be the app you'd move them to. If you're just looking up users, it should work fine.

If you're looking for something more, try ldapper:
http://carl-bell-2.baylor.edu/~Carl_Bell/ReadMeFiles/LDapper.html

Cheers!
Kerry

[stevewood]

But does Address Book in SL require Address Book Server to perform lookups?

Steve Wood
Director of IT
swood at integer.com

The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201
T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475

[ktrampe]

But does Address Book in SL require Address Book Server to perform lookups?

No, not in my experience.

It can connect to any LDAP (even properly configured Active Directory Installations), CardDAV, or Exchange 2007 server.
Go into Address Book's preferences > accounts pane > click the plus button > Account Type: LDAP > Server Address: your.od.server. etc, etc.

Give it a shot, it's pretty quick and easy.

Have a great morning,
Kerry

On Oct 28, 2009, at 7:29 AM, Steve Wood wrote:

But does Address Book in SL require Address Book Server to perform lookups? Steve Wood Director of IT swood at integer.com The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201 T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475 On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Kerry Trampe <ktrampe at basd.k12.wi.us> wrote: Good Morning Steve, I believe Address Book would probably be the app you'd move them to. If you're just looking up users, it should work fine. If you're looking for something more, try ldapper: http://carl-bell-2.baylor.edu/~Carl_Bell/ReadMeFiles/LDapper.html Cheers! Kerry On Oct 27, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Steve Wood wrote: Totally not a Casper question, but why not pose it to the list. I was just getting my users to start using the Directory.app application to look up users, and then Apple comes along and does away with it. Does anyone know of a replacement application under Snow Leopard? Steve Wood Director of IT swood at integer.com The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201 T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475

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[Kedgar]

I believe Directory.app was moved to /System/Library/CoreServices ... I may
be wrong though


[stevewood]

Kerry hit the nail on the head! A little more cumbersome than
Directory.app, but it will work. In Address Book you just have to choose
the All Directories and then Directory Services (at least in my case) to
search the directory. Was nicer with Directory.app.

Thanks Kerry!

Steve Wood
Director of IT
swood at integer.com

The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201
T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475


[tritre]

It was indeed moved here. Apple's official new way of accessing this utility
is to:
1. Open 'System Preferences'
2. Click on 'Accounts'
3. Select 'Login Options'
4. Select 'Edit' next to 'Network Account Server:'
5. Click 'Open Directory Utility. . .'

Personally I find this far too cumbersome for a utility we use as much as we
do in our Active Directory environment. We have a custom location for
machines to be bound that we need to specify in Directory Utility that the
default auto-bind does not navigate to. Since we already deploy our local
admin account with a custom dock that points to the old location, right now
while testing Snow Leopard I have worked the following script into the
deployment which just aliases the new location into the old:

ln -s /System/Library/CoreServices/Directory Utility.app/
/Applications/Utilities/Directory Utility.app

~ Josh

[stevewood]

Yes, that is a great way to get to Directory Utility, but, again, that was
not the application I was looking for. I was looking for DIrectory.app,
which has this icon:

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We use this for looking up phone numbers instead of printing out phone
lists.

Steve Wood
Director of IT
swood at integer.com

The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201
T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475