Customized Bulletin Board

[Nicodemas]

I want to create a customized bulletin board on my intranet. Is there anyway that I can do this based on which Exchange group a user belongs to? I thought that perhaps using LDAP to look at groups on the Exchange 5.5 server would work.. but I have no idea what I'm doing, or really what I'm looking for because I am wholly confused.

Perhaps there is someone out there that has a good tip for me?

[jpmoriarty]

LDAP is the way you want to head, but you'll notice (if you search for LDAP on this board) that I've had very little luck getting any information out of anyone as to how best to go about it. I dont think that it's something a lot of people do. It will also depend of course on what language you're using: I've had to do my LDAP in ASP despite writing the entire rest of the site in PHP - but I found PHP LDAP support even harder to come by than ASP LDAP support.

There was a site I found (i think it was www.ldapzone.com ) which sounded like it would be the answer to all my problems - only it wasnt. I dont think they've got many members, and their boards certainly dont get much action: i posted a message there on the 28th of jan and am still waiting for a reply.

I've kind of come round to the verdict that it's more hassle than it's worth - sure it would be cool, but if it takes me a weeks work to get it going, then it's not cost effective. So i've kinda given up.

If you have any joy though, please come back and let us know!