GAL Search does not return Address Information

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Search for a user.
2. Most details are displayed, but most address-related information is not.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

No address information displayed, however 'Office' field of GAL is shown. 
Expectation is to see address details contained within GAL, under Address: 
City: State: Postal Code: etc. Makes it hard to use Google Nav to find an 
office/employee location!

What version of the product are you using?

1.2.3

What version of Android are you running?

2.3.3 (CyanogenMod 7.2, HTC Desire)

What version of Exchange are you connecting to?

2003

Please provide any additional information below.

Can provide screenshots of what's returned and what's expected from GAL if 
needed (but offline).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jonnoble...@gmail.com on 11 May 2011 at 5:35

• Merged into: #41

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Hi there

Thank you for your feedback and using my app. 

My app does display ALL the fields that are returned by Exchange as a result of 
the GAL query. 

The bad news is that the default GAL lookup using ActiveSync does not return 
the Address. As far as I know, the only fields that are returned by default are 
the following

DisplayName
Phone
Office
Title
Company
Alias
FirstName
LastName
HomePhone
MobilePhone
EmailAddress

Here is what Microsoft has to say about the fields that are returned

For each GAL entry that is found, the Search command returns all the non-empty 
properties that are indexed by the online ANR in the global catalog 
server—for example, e-mail alias, display name, first and last names, company 
name, and so on.

That being said, I am planning to switch to using EWS API for the next version 
of my app instead of ActiveSync. With that I should be able to get the address 
along with other organizational information. So please bear with me while I try 
to get this implemented.

Original comment by viveki...@gmail.com on 12 May 2011 at 6:47

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Hi,

Thanks for the quick response :)

Are you going to drop activesync support? EWS appears to be for Exchange 2007 
and later, my employer is stuck on 2003 and we have no firm date for an update 
yet :(

Cheers

Jon

Original comment by jonnoble...@gmail.com on 16 May 2011 at 4:06

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Hi Jon

Thanks for your message. I have no plans to drop support for ActiveSync. My 
plan was to use EWS for 2007 and above and provide additional functionality for 
those users. For folks who are unfortunately still stuck on 2003, I will 
continue to use ActiveSync. I did try to dig into the ActiveSync protocol to 
see if I could fetch additional data (including org info etc). Unfortunately I 
hit a brick wall there, but I will keep trying.

Thanks
Vivek

Original comment by viveki...@gmail.com on 16 May 2011 at 4:15

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Combine with issue #41...same basic issue

Original comment by Karim.U....@gmail.com on 19 Jun 2012 at 3:35

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Merging with Issue #41

Original comment by viveki...@gmail.com on 1 Oct 2012 at 7:24

• Changed state: Duplicate