Certificates are a big problem for most administrators if they are configured incorrectly. Out of the box Exchange 2007 has a self signed certificate that will work. Since I don't want to reinvent the wheel here I will point you to this blog for more...

When mailbox enabled objects are created they go through a stamping process to mail enable them. In Exchange 2003 the RUS (Recipient Update Service) is responsible for doing this. One of the main tasks of the Recipient Update Service is to populate the...

Many times people often play with permissions when they should not. One common mistake administrators make is that they remove the Authenticated Users from the security mask on the Address Lists Container thus hiding it from everybody. Once this is done...

After setting up a mixed org with exchange 2007 and or Exchange 2010 the OAB generation fails with error 9342 Public folders are widely used with all version of Exchange. For the OAB public folders are a must. With the introduction of Exchange 2007...

There are a multiple reasons for why an Outlook client can receive the 0x8004010f sync error. Unfortunately, 0x8004010f is just a generic MAPI error and will show up for a variety of problems. Here is what the error looks like under err.exe ( Microsoft...

When you try to synchronize the offline address list on a Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 server in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, you may receive the following error message in the Sync Issues folder: 0x8004010F An object could not be found If you...

Through out migrations and site consolidations it is common for administrators to create multiple accounts for users. Certain situations can cause problem for clients when they are trying to download the OAB. Below is the break down on the process: ...

When a Microsoft Outlook client tries to download the offline Address Book in Microsoft Outlook, the offline Address Book may not be downloaded successfully. Events that are similar to the following are added to the synchronization log: 12:45:53 Synchronizing...

There are several reasons for why an Outlook client can receive the 8004010F error when trying to download the Offline Address Book files from an Exchange Server. Additionally you can end up with some events in the application log when diagnostic logging...

If your organization needs to minimize the effects of the full offline address book downloads across a WAN link, there are some best practices you can employ. • Limit large sets of full offline address book downloads The first option is to limit large...

I thought that this would be fun to post, so here it is :) '////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ' Function: createOfflineAddressBook() ' Purpose: Creates an Offline Address Book. ' ' Input: szDomainName...

I have finished the new code for OABInteg and have posted the new version. Some of the new features include: 1. The ability to detect if you are running OABInteg on an Exchange server. If you are running OABInteg on an Exchange server all of the Exchange...

In Exchange 2003 and in Exchange 2000, an Offline Address Book is an Active Directory Object that exists in the Configuration namespace of the directory. Creating an Offline Address Book involves creating an "msExchOAB" class object, under the "CN=Offline...

This blog covers two very important tests from the Offline Address Book Integrity (OABINTEG) tool: 1. The OAB Folder Check – oabfldcheck 2. The OAB Proxy Test - proxytest OAB Folder Check [oabfldcheck] and Proxy Test [proxytest] are two essential...

There has been some questions on the newsgroups with regards to installing Outlook 2007 on an Exchange 2007 server. With *previous* versions of Exchange this was not possible due to an incompatibility with the outlook MAPI binaries, and the versions that...

An Outlook 2007 client now uses web services for most of its features (OAB, OFF, Calendar, etc) when connecting to an Exchange 2007 server. One thing that might not be very apparent is that when an Outlook client makes it's connections it will check the...

What are details templates and how are they used? Details templates control the appearance of the address lists your Exchange users see when they look up recipient properties in address lists. You can change the appearance of address lists by modifying...

When you are building an OAB Version 4 Offline Address Book on a cluster server (CCR or SCC) we can fail to generate the OAB with an event id 9395 or event id 9396. In Exchange 2007 RTM (Release Build) our support for the OAB Generation process running...

There are situations where the System Attendant can fail to contact the Active Directory, and when this happens certain tasks like OABGen, Free/Busy, Mailbox Manager, etc can stop working. When this happens the System Attendant will log a Windows Application...

The OAB Generation process can fail when rebuilding an Offline Address List if permissions on the Default Global Address List have been restricted or removed. If this happens you might see the following errors in the Windows Application Log: Event...

What is ccmexec.exe and inventory.exe and what do they? Most people with laptops gripe about these two process all the time. It is quite that you will turn on your laptop, and watch the performance drop as your hard disk activity goes through the roof...

Under certain conditions the OAB generation process can fail with the following errors: 9108, 9126 and 9175. These event id's are common and will always be logged if the OAB Generation process has a failure. 9108 - The Address List that is linked to your...

If you are not familiar with what OPATH is, then you must read these two blogs when you are done reading this one!!! OPATH is basis for the filtering syntax now used by The Microsoft Management Shell (Powershell), and is therefore the filtering syntax...

Vladimir Kritchko is one of the developers who has worked directly with OAB and the FDS component. A while back he posted a great write up on how OAB Web Distribution works. If you missed this blog, you can read it here. http://msexchangeteam.com/archive...

A few days ago I was working on a new laptop and I noticed that after I installed Office 2007 the English dictionary in Outlook Express had been changed to the French dictionary. I also noticed that I was unable to change it back to the English dictionary...