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  53                                             <abbr class="published" title="2010-02-24T13:22:15-08:00">February 24, 2010  1:22 PM</abbr>
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  63                                         <p>Another in a series of rants about things I see and how backward they are...</p>
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  65 <p>Why is it that organizations use Outlook at all? And then when they do they have their address books set up for &lt;lastname>, &lt;firstname>? That's not how I think of people - by their last name first! And to add injury to insult, often looking up people as &lt;firstname> &lt;lastname> fails!</p>
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  67 <p>I use Thunderbird and one of the first things I set up is an LDAP directory in the address book for the organization. Often this involves getting the secret LDAP info like server name and most importantly baseDN. Surprisingly I have been successful in getting this information most of the time! Once connected I have access to that elusive Outlook Global Address Book because essentially it's just and LDAP implementation. And my &lt;firstname> &lt;lastname> searches automagically start working directly in Thunderbird. Yippie!</p>
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  69 <p>Still there are broken search tools like SameTime's Add New Contact dialog which fails if you &lt;firstname &lt;lastname> search. Coupled with organizations propensity to use &lt;lastname>, &lt;firstname> is "Jessie Scott" "Jessie Scott" or "Scott Jessie"?</p>
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  71 <p><big><b?ARGH!</b></big></p>
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