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What is LDAP ?

LDAP is the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. It is much more than an addressbook (Contact Management). Today, LDAP is part of the standard Internet protocols vital in the IT infrastructure. Directories are used for authentication (Identitity Management), and can be used for rapid object storage and retrieval of information across your entire enterprise, or as "glue" to allow the exchange of data between heterogenous applications using standard schemas. o/p>

LDAP was developed by the University of Michigan and the Internet Engineering Task Force as a set of network services to provide distributed object management and access over TCP/IP networks. LDAP was, in turn, derived from the older International Standards Organization X.500 Directory Access Protocold for OSI networks. SLAPD (pronounced SLAP-"dee") stands for the Standalone LDAP Daemon. aeSLAPD is a port of SLAPD and the rest of the LDAP 3.3 UNIX software to scalable Windows systems. Versions are available for many other hardware platforms (Linux and UNIX). aeSLAPD is compatible with various Open Source products and commercial offerings such as Sun/iPlanet and Novell.

Why You Need It

It's standard.

It's everywhere.

Finally. Everybody's on the same page -- LDAP clients are a reality.

NOW YOU NEED A SERVER

LDAP is the first application protocol since the web HTTP to become a standard AND widely accepted and used in major commercial products.Chances are, you're already using LDAP. Almost all new browsers and mail products rolling out today use LDAP as their shared addressbook. With aeSLAPD you can create thousands of phone and address entries and share them instantly with these client products:

Every Microsoft Internet Explorer since IE 4.0 (Browser and Outlook Express E-mail)

Netscape Communicator (Browser and E-mail)

Microsoft Outlook and OE

QUALCOMM'sEudora and Eudora Pro 4.0 E-mail.

Novell and many more

Over 40 companies endorsed LDAP in 1996 as the directory information standard for their products. The problem is that these products contain LDAP client protocols. To use them, and fully exploit the benefits of LDAP for your organization, you need an LDAP server. If you have Internet connectivity, you can access public LDAP servers like Four11, Bigfoot, InfoSpace and others.

If you are a commercial, government or academic institution, you need to be able to create your own shared addressbook or phonebook. AE SLAPD is the perfect solution. aeSLAPD is directly based on the University of Michigan's LDAP 3.3 SLAPD. Instead of the unwieldy and complex UNIX implementation, this version runs on any desktop Windows system (from Win95 to XP). It installs like any other Windows application and allows easy edit and import of directory information using your favorite text editor, or sophisticated browser-like managers.

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