New Offline Address Book

[deanp]

I created a new offline address book in Exchange 2003 SP2 and Exchange
did create it overnight but it didn't create a public folder for it
like I told it to. What I want to do is have a public folder in
Outlook that is linked to an Offline Address Book so that it can be
used for mail merges.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

An offline address book has no connection to the folders visible in the Public Folders hierarchy and is not available for mail merges as a public folder would be. Exchange does use a hidden system folder to store the OAB files.

 

[deanp]

An offline address book has no connection to the folders visible in the Public Folders hierarchy and is not available for mail merges as a public folder would be. Exchange does use a hidden system folder to store the OAB files.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54





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Ok, so how do I create a public folder that has all of the addresses
in the GAL in it and that also automatically updates itself when
changes to the GAL are made ?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Nothing like that is built into Outlook. Maybe one of the Exchange administrators who hang out in the microsoft.public.exchange.admin group would have some ideas.