RE: Global Address List Problem

  • From: "Tony Anderson" <tandersn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:05:00 -0800

Thanks,

> 1) Run RUS in Update Mode for the domain of interest (this is prolly the
> step you missed -- it stamps the showInAddressBook attribute on all
> mail-enabled and mailbox-enabled items in the A/D domain)

What is RUS? 




> 2) Verify the contents of the GAL (preview mode) in ESM
> 
> 3) Rebuild the OAB
> 
> 4) On the OL2003 client: Send/Receive -> Download Address Book -- if the
> GAL is in the Default Send/Receive group (not by default), just do a
> "send/receive all".
> 
> I think the normal update timeframe for Outlook2003 for OAB updates is
> once a week or thereabouts. It's way too long.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Anderson [mailto:tandersn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 3:50 PM
> To: [ExchangeList]
> Subject: [exchangelist] Global Address List Problem
> 
> http://www.MSExchange.org/
> 
> I have a problem with users running Outlook 2003 Cached exchange mode.
> The address book they receive is old. It contains bad contact
> information. The users running Previous versions of Outlook, or outlook
> 2003 in non cached mode have the correct information in the global
> address book. How can I flush this out? I selected to rebuild the
> 'Offline address book' but it didn't make a difference. I even deleted
> it and created a new one. Still nothing.
> 
> Help>?
> 
> Tony
> 
> 
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