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Workplace Messaging and groups


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For those of you that have decided to use or pilot Workplace Messaging and also use your Domino infrastructure as the LDAP source, you need to be aware how Workplace looks for the groups (since we all know and love how easy groups make things to manage)

Lotus Workplace Messaging uses LDAPv3 to look up users and groups. In IBM Lotus Domino, people have an organizational structure (for example, /ACME/US) as part of their name, but groups generally do not. Because Lotus Workplace Messaging relies on this organizational structure for user and group lookup, you will need to give the groups in Domino a name that includes an Organizational structure, for example, "SalesPeople/ACME/US", for Lotus Workplace Messaging to be able to find the groups.

So as you see, either rethink the groups you will be using and make new ones, or get ready to rename a bunch of groups.