diff --git a/apps/user_ldap/lib/access.php b/apps/user_ldap/lib/access.php
index 8409e6ce3d..135eca1e62 100644
--- a/apps/user_ldap/lib/access.php
+++ b/apps/user_ldap/lib/access.php
@@ -1025,14 +1025,6 @@ class Access extends LDAPUtility implements user\IUserTools {
 				return array();
 			}
 
-			// Do the server-side sorting
-			foreach(array_reverse($attr) as $sortAttr){
-				foreach($sr as $searchResource) {
-					$this->ldap->sort($cr, $searchResource, $sortAttr);
-				}
-			}
-
-
 			foreach($sr as $res) {
 				$findings = array_merge($findings, $this->ldap->getEntries($cr	, $res ));
 			}
diff --git a/apps/user_ldap/lib/ildapwrapper.php b/apps/user_ldap/lib/ildapwrapper.php
index 44ec08f59f..d607a3fdb6 100644
--- a/apps/user_ldap/lib/ildapwrapper.php
+++ b/apps/user_ldap/lib/ildapwrapper.php
@@ -178,14 +178,6 @@ interface ILDAPWrapper {
 	 */
 	public function startTls($link);
 
-	/**
-	 * Sort the result of a LDAP search
-	 * @param resource $link LDAP link resource
-	 * @param resource $result LDAP result resource
-	 * @param string $sortFilter attribute to use a key in sort
-	 */
-	public function sort($link, $result, $sortFilter);
-
 	/**
 	 * Unbind from LDAP directory
 	 * @param resource $link LDAP link resource
diff --git a/apps/user_ldap/lib/ldap.php b/apps/user_ldap/lib/ldap.php
index ad8c338b58..383d71ca6e 100644
--- a/apps/user_ldap/lib/ldap.php
+++ b/apps/user_ldap/lib/ldap.php
@@ -200,16 +200,6 @@ class LDAP implements ILDAPWrapper {
 		return $this->invokeLDAPMethod('set_option', $link, $option, $value);
 	}
 
-	/**
-	 * @param LDAP $link
-	 * @param LDAP $result
-	 * @param string $sortFilter
-	 * @return mixed
-	 */
-	public function sort($link, $result, $sortFilter) {
-		return $this->invokeLDAPMethod('sort', $link, $result, $sortFilter);
-	}
-
 	/**
 	 * @param LDAP $link
 	 * @return mixed|true
@@ -283,10 +273,7 @@ class LDAP implements ILDAPWrapper {
 			$errorCode = ldap_errno($this->curArgs[0]);
 			$errorMsg  = ldap_error($this->curArgs[0]);
 			if($errorCode !== 0) {
-				if($this->curFunc === 'ldap_sort' && $errorCode === -4) {
-					//You can safely ignore that decoding error.
-					//… says https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=18023
-				} else if($this->curFunc === 'ldap_get_entries'
+				if($this->curFunc === 'ldap_get_entries'
 						  && $errorCode === -4) {
 				} else if ($errorCode === 32) {
 					//for now