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The Active Directory Services (ADS) path uniquely represents each object in the Active Directory Service. This can be compared to your mailing address. If the path showed "United States, Arizona" then all addresses in the state would be displayed, while "United States, Arizona, Pima County, Tucson, Eastside Loop" would display only the addresses on that street.
To retrieve the network’s Global Address List (GAL), you can enter the correct ADS path for a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) connection in the Exchange ADS Path preference, which is located in the String Preferences area of the Preferences page. LDAP is a set of protocols used to access contact information from a server (in this case, a Windows Active Directory server). This path is necessary to retrieve e-mail addresses from the network's GAL. If this functionality is not necessary or not desired, the three Exchange preferences can be left blank. If your server supports CDO 1.21, the Exchange ADS Path preference can be left blank and the Exchange Profile Name and Exchange Server Name preferences can be used to access the network's GAL via a CDO connection.
The best way to determine the exact ADS path for your needs is to use Microsoft's ADSI Edit program. ADSI Edit is included with the Windows 2000 Support Tools on the Windows 2000 CD-ROM and with the Windows Support Tools on the Windows Server 2003 CD-ROM. Microsoft's Knowledge Base article 312299 describes the usage of ADSI Edit.
While each ADS path will be unique, the following will show the general format used in an ADS path.
A Windows NT/Exchange 5.x system might look something like this:
LDAP://ExchangeServer/o=Organization/ou=Site/cn=Recipients
A Windows/Exchange 2000/2003/2008 system might look something like this:
LDAP://YourDomain.local/CN=Users,DC=YourDomain,DC=local
If there is a problem resolving the name, try the IP Address:
LDAP://10.0.0.25/CN=Users,DC=YourDomain,DC=local
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