Public Address Book - Unique ID?

[Alan]

Hi All,

We have a Global Address List (GAL) which contains out internal user
address book, and also a Public Address Book (PAB) which contains our
client addresses.

Someone (I shall rename nameless) deleted the PAB (!)

We re-created it but now when a user selects that address book, they
get a message saying that:

' The address list could not be displayed. The contacts folder ...
could not be opened; ... may have been moved or deleted. ... '


Re-creating it with the same name does not work, presumably due to it
being identified by some unique ID.

I thought this might be the ID property of the AddressList object. Is
that correct? If so, can I use that to 'trick' outlook into thinking
that the original address book is back?

If not, I will have to go around *every* *single* *user* and delete
their PAB, recreate it, and then reset their address lookup order -
please save me from that hell (even though I may deserve it!)

Thanks,

Alan.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

That ID is a read-only property and yes, the PAB was identified by a unique
GUID that now has changed. It's similar in concept to a mailbox's GUID. Just
re-creating a new mailbox for a user with the same alias won't use the
original mailbox. AFAIK you're going to be stuck with removing the old PAB
and adding a new one.

 

[Alan]

That ID is a read-only property and yes, the PAB was identified by a
unique GUID that now has changed. It's similar in concept to a
mailbox's GUID. Just re-creating a new mailbox for a user with the
same alias won't use the original mailbox. AFAIK you're going to be
stuck with removing the old PAB and adding a new one.

{Sigh}

Thanks Ken.