Hi, if you use Openfire with AD/LDAP integration and search is not working for you with Spark 2.8.3, can you try the latest nightly build and report if it fixes that for you? Nightly build is buggy, so only use it to test the search. https://www.igniterealtime.org/downloads/nightly_spark.jsp
Jira Issue https://issues.igniterealtime.org/browse/SPARK-1873
Related topic (1): Search doesn't work
Related topic (2): Spark 2.8.3 не работает поиск людей