Deleting Messaging Server, Calendar Server, and Communications Express Users

Which Method Should You Use?

The method you choose depends on the Communications Services products and versions you have installed.

Removing Users (Task Map)

The following table provides links directing you to the method (task) appropriate for your installation.

Table 1 Removing Users (Task Map)

Task Instructions 

Description 

Tools Recommended for This Task 

To Delete Messaging Server and Calendar Server Users with Delegated Administrator Command-Line Tools

If you have installed Communications Services Delegated Administrator to provision users in the LDAP directory for Messaging Server, Calendar Server, and/or Communications Express, use this task. 

This method is the simplest. If you have installed Delegated Administrator, we recommend that you use it to remove users. 

Sun Java System Communications Services Delegated Administrator command-line tools 

(If the user has personal address book data created through Communications Express, LDAP tools are also needed.) 

To Delete Messaging Server and Calendar Server Users with LDAP Tools

If you have not installed Delegated Administrator and you provision users for Messaging Server, Calendar Server, and/or Communications Express with direct LDAP tools, use this task. 

LDAP tools provided by Sun Java System Directory Server 

To Delete Users of Calendar Server in Non-Hosted Domain Mode and Messaging Server

If you are running Calendar Server in non-hosted domain mode, and you are also running Messaging Server (where both Messaging Server and Calendar Server users are provisioned in the same directory), use this task. 

Calendar Server utilities for users of Calendar Server in non-hosted domain mode and 

LDAP tools provided by Sun Java System Directory Server 

To Delete Users of Stand-Alone Calendar Server in Non-Hosted Domain Mode

If you are running stand-alone Calendar Server in non-hosted domain mode (where no other Communications Services products are provisioned in the same directory), use this task. 

Calendar Server utilities for users of Calendar Server in non-hosted domain mode 

To Delete Messaging Server and Calendar Server Users with LDAP Tools

iPlanet Messaging Server 5.x

If you are running iPlanet Messaging Server 5.x, use the direct LDAP tools to remove users, use this task.

Even if you use iPlanet Delegated Administrator to provision users for Messaging Server 5.x, we recommend that you use direct LDAP tools remove users. In this situation, the direct LDAP tools are the surest way to clean up the LDAP directory.

(iPlanet Delegated Administrator, used with Messaging Server 5.x, is not the same as Communications Services Delegated Administrator, which was introduced for use with Java Enterprise System releases of Messaging Server and Calendar Server.)

LDAP tools provided by Sun Java System Directory Server