Wildfire Tweaks

Finally, got the install to synch with AD and THANKS to everyone who offered suggestions and advice. Learned a great deal along the way so it was worth it.

Manager has a couple of tweaks he was wanting to do on the install:

  1. When you search for a user, you are given the option name@127.0.0.1. Can this be changed to the machine name?

  2. Instead of having to add each employee to your individual Spark, by default, can you get everyone in the AD or maybe everyone in your group?

  3. The only hurdle left is getting the profiles in Spark to pull all information from AD correctly using the vCard setup. Is there a link to a very good help file on this area?

THANKS again everyone

Hey bandit,

  1. When you search for a user, you are given the option name@127.0.0.1. Can this be changed to the machine name?

The domain in fact is the domain that Wildfire is using. Usually people prefer names rather than IP addresses…not sure why. From the server settings page (in the admin console) you can click Edit Properties and change the IP address to a resolvable name. Make sure that the new name can be resolved by clients when trying to connect. FYI, changing the domain name of an already installed server may not be that easy if users already added contacts to their rosters. Since they will not be updated and will still use the old IP address.

  1. Instead of having to add each employee to your individual Spark, by default, can you get everyone in the AD or maybe everyone in your group?

That is what shared groups provides. You can specify that the groups found in LDAP should appear in the rosters of the users.

  1. The only hurdle left is getting the profiles in Spark to pull all information from AD correctly using the vCard setup. Is there a link to a very good help file on this area?

Which version of Wildfire are you using? If you are using Wildfire 3.1.1 then you can follow the LDAP wizard to set up your vCard mapping. The wizard will let you verify how vcards are going to look like based on your settings.

Regards,

– Gato

THANKS for the feedback and worked so far but only problem is how do I access the LDAP wizard? Also, tried to find the shared group configuration and found groups but no shared ones?

Shared Groups:

Have a look at an existing group under theUser/Group tab. In the middle of the page, above the members of the group should be a box titled, ‘‘Contact List (Roster) Sharing’’, tick the box labeled, ‘‘Share group with additional users’’ and choose who else should receive this group.

LDAP Wizard:

You want ‘‘Server’’ tab -> ‘‘Server Settings’’ -> ‘‘Profile Settings’’. Select LDAP and then click next, you are now in the LDAP wizard.