Re: Poll: Is your GAL Internal, External, or Both?

[Xueshan Feng <sfeng@stanford.edu>]

We are using external GAL, for two reasons - one, syncing external data to Zimbra GAL need extra work and add a point of failure, two privacy issue. External GAL has access control on attributes that a user can set, such as phone number. Zimbra internal GAL does not have it. 

Zimbra GAL sync load has been an ongoing issue, especially when PeopleSoft has changes that affects large number of accounts. We use dedicated external GAL servers just for Zimbra so that other services that use central GAL are not impacted by Zimbra's GAL sync and lookup.

Xueshan

----- "Doug Curtis" <doug.curtis@oit.gatech.edu> wrote:

| We are running an external GAL because we already had our data there.
| 
| This isn't sounding encouraging since our GAL is already slow.
| 
| Doug
| 
| ----- "Matt Mencel" <MR-Mencel@wiu.edu> wrote:
| 
| > From: "Matt Mencel" <MR-Mencel@wiu.edu>
| > To: "zimbra-hied-admins" <zimbra-hied-admins@sfu.ca>
| > Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:34:42 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
| Eastern
| > Subject: Poll:  Is your GAL Internal, External, or Both?
| >
| > I'm taking an unscientific poll.  Just curious how EDUs out there
| are
| > configuring your GALs...and maybe a short reason why you did it
| that
| > way?
| > 
| > We are having a heck of a time with our External GAL and GALSync
| > settings since jumping to 6.0.4 and are about ready to give it up
| and
| > do Internal GAL only.
| > 
| > Thanks,
| > Matt
| 
| -- 
| Doug Curtis
| doug.curtis@oit.gatech.edu
| Georgia Tech OIT/A&I
| 404.385.0390

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Xueshan Feng <sfeng@stanford.edu>
Technical Lead, IT Services, Stanford University