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...

Since the document has been out a few questions have come up and I wanted to try to answer them. Top Question : What if I am in a mixed mode and I have modified my permissions on the 2003 side because I was self-hosting? Answer: This is not going...

When it comes to downloading an OAB the following error code [ 0X8004010F ] is the biggest pain for everyone, and the most misunderstood error. The number one thing is to understand is that this error means MAPI_E_NOT_FOUND : C:\dgoldman>err 0X8004010F...

I thought I would take a few minutes to post some information on how to troubleshoot OAB Generation problem. There are two really basic things that must be understood before troubleshooting any process: Understanding how the process works...

Recently I have been involved with debugging a lot of OAB issues. One of the most interesting issues has been the PDN table change. With Exchange 5.5 coming to the end of it's life cycle, lots of companies have been migrating quickly from Exchange 5.5...

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...

Here is some information on how the outlook clients connect to the public folder information store to download the oab messages/attachments. For an outlook client to download the OAB files the client has to make a call in to the address book provider...

In this article I will explain how the OAB Generation process discovers the domain controller that it will use for rebuilding an Offline Address List. Understanding this process can help you in troubleshooting. As I have mentioned in other blog...

An installation package is now available. For more information please refer to this following link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e17e7f31-079a-43a9-bff2-0a110307611e&DisplayLang=en Some details about this package: ...

Over the last few months a great number of people have asked if we would be putting out a white paper on how to segregate address lists for Exchange 2003. We put a massive amount of time and effort into getting the Exchange 2007 version of this document...

I wanted to elaborate a little on the topic of details templates and how they work. Details templates control the appearance of object properties that are accessed by using address lists. When a user opens an address list in Outlook, for example, the...

I wanted to talk a little bit in this blog about Mailbox Quota Limits “Mailbox over the limit”, and how they can affect Exchange Server performance. Overview for Mailbox quota When you first install Microsoft Exchange Server, users have unlimited...

With all of the extensive troubleshooting and debugging that I have done over the last year for OAB generation process, I thought it would be worth while to write an tool that could help customers troubleshoot these issues. The OAB generation process...

I wanted to talk briefly about using the DS Server registry value for hard coding Exchange servers to particular domain controllers, and the problems that it can cause. The DS Server registry key was used back in the day as a means to hard code an...

In Exchange 2007 we introduced the Microsoft Exchange Scripting Console as a mechanism for performing Exchange tasks via scripting. The Microsoft Exchange Scripting Console extends the ability to run commands that you want to perform without having to...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Here is a little about me. I relocated to North Carolina from New York in April 2001, where I started working for Microsoft as an AST (Alliance Support Professional). This role entailed being a dedicated support professional 24/7 x 365 for the FSG...

Some companies have requirements to change how their users display name show up in the active directory. We have a KB article [ http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/250455 ] where this does work for the following versions of Exchange: Microsoft...

The Exchange search folders tend to be a very complicated subject for a lot of administrators. There are two different ways of filtering messages in MAPI - (Search folders and restrictions). A search folder is like a regular MAPI folder, except that instead...

There are a lot of common reasons why an Outlook client will fail to download the OAB. Some of the common reasons are There is no OAB associated with the users mailbox store. The OAB has not been generated. No local OAB public folder replica. Client is...

I got a weird request today and I thought I would be interesting post. In some organizations you might have a group of users that you do not want to download the OAB for security reason. There are a few ways to do this and if not done correctly can break...