I am in charge for the IT of these two mid-sized companies, each has it’s own Active Directory/Domain controller.
I would like to provide to our users a messaging service that has two groups one for company A and one for company B. Each group should contain all the active users for each company.
So far I have successfully setup Openfire for company A. everything works beautifully and I love it.
I know I cannot link one Openfire to multiple Active Directories so I was thinking about installing another Openfire for company B and then use XMPP to provide connectivity between companies.
Would XMPP take care of sending the entire list of user for the other company?
If XMPP doesn’t work, I would like to hear any other suggestions.
the users will enter the john doe account into the xmpp gateway of the spark client. This should cause any groups he is a member of to automatically load in the roster.
I’m setting up IM for 6 companies who have between them 9 different active directory domains with no common root.
The best solution I found was to use Microsoft ADAM to create a single LDAP. The problem with ADAM is that is will no do authentication by default. What I did was to convert my user objects into userProxy objects on import.
This was you can see everyone from all companies, search for them, do whatever you want.
There’s a lot of web pages about setting up ADAM, so I’ll let you find those yourself. Finding anything about teh userProxy stuff is next to impossible to here’s a great link.
I’m a noob, so please excuse what may seem like a dumb question, but is the XMPP gateway plugin something I would need to get in addition to our OpenFire enterprise setup? If so, where would I find it?
Thanks for your help on this, I got this up and running, with the rosters loaded, however, it seems that the users on Company A’s side are seeing the message as coming from the Jon Doe account that was entered to the XMPP gateway. Is there any way for it to show up as coming from the username on the company B side?
Unfortunately that is the one draw back. You would need to have an account for each user at each domain to allow for unique usernames. Or to just use and allow the users to add each other manually to their roster.
Can you give me a quick description of how you implemented your solution with ADAM?
My idea is to run it on the same server where Openfire is running and basically create a new local LDAP database that includes the users from both corporates AD.
Do you have any suggestion on how to set this up? how often do you refresh the DB?
I am not an LDAP guru but I was able to get openfire to work with one DB