Excel LDAP Search 0.56

ELS can be used to add LDAP data to existing data in an Excel document on a row-by-row basis (see Figure 1), or populate a blank sheet based on a custom query. Limitations: ELS was designed for a fairly basic LDAP environment. Some features that are (currently) not supported are SSL, certificate authentication, and referral following. I put together a couple of flash demo movies that show typical ELS usage for a running a query to fill in a blank Excel sheet and for adding new row data to existing Excel entries: Requirements Ive tested querying OpenLDAP and Active Directory with the following: * Windows XP o Excel 2003 o Excel 2007 * Windows 2000 o Excel 2000 * Windows Vista o untested It uses the Mozilla LDAP SDK so it should work with any LDAP-v3 compliant directory server, and Excel 2000 (97?) to 2007. If ELS doesnt work with your directory server, please click here to submit a bug report online. It takes all of 30 seconds, and you can help out the next person whod encounter the same problem as you. Installation Instructions Make sure all instances of Excel are closed. Run the excelldapsearchinstall_x_y.exe file. This will copy the necessary files, and register everything with the system. It also opens up the config document folder where you can specify your connection parameters. If you have multiple versions of Excel installed, only the latest will have the Tools menu item registered. To manually enable it in an older version, benefit that version to open the ldapquery_addin.xla document in the directory where Excel LDAP Search was installed. Press ALT-F11 to enter the macro editor and select the ldapquery_addin.xla project from the project explorer (if the project explorer isnt displayed, look under the View menu). Expand the Modules item and doubleclick ldapQueryFormMacro . Look for the Sub AddToolsMenuItem() line, click anywhere on it with the mouse, then from the menu bar select Run->Run Sub/User Form or click the toolbar button with the play icon. Known Issues On some systems, the error message Compile error: Cant find project or library will be displayed. This indicates Excel is referencing a module that doesnt exist. The solution is to start the macro editor by pressing ALT-F11, then open the Tools menu and select References... . If the References... item is greyed out, reset the project first by click the stop icon on the toolbar, or under the Run menu theres a reset item. Look for any checked items in the list that start with MISSING: and uncheck them. Click the OK button and close the macro editor. This process is also described in Microsoft KB208218. Uninstall Instructions Make sure all instances of Excel are closed Remove via Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs. If you manually added the Tools Run LDAP Search menu item to further than one version of Excel, you can remove it by clicking Tools->Customize... , then opening the Tools menu again and dragging the menu item off. Usage After install, fire up Excel and take a peek under the Tools menu. There should be a Run LDAP Search menu item now. Click that to bring up the search GUI. Excel 2007 users - since there is no Tools menu in 2007, this ends up showing up in the Add Ins ribbon bar thingy, but seems to work just fine. * Adding LDAP Data to Existing Excel Data The default option is to Add LDAP data to existing rows which requires a column of data where each row has an item that uniquely identfies a user (ex., a column of user IDs or e-mail addresses). If you want to get further knowledge (ex., a mailing address or the users full name) for each row from your directory server, set the column as the data range in step 1)