Re: Openfire and LDAP groups

I tried doing that too, but never could get it working. What I ended up doing was using a user search filter: (objectClass=organizationalPerson) and a group search filter of (objectClass=group). This pulled in all of the user accounts and groups. Then I created AD groups just for messaging (IM-DepartmentA, IM-DepartmentB, etc.). Then I went into users/groups > edit groups > picked a group and hit Enable contact list group sharing, gave it a name that matched the department, and shared it with all users. When a staff member logs into Spark, they now see everyone grouped by their department. This has the added advantage of being able to put a user in more than one group in case they roam between two or more departments.