In a test environment (and sometimes in a production environment) you need to quickly rebuild the offline address book, and quickly get the updated address book in Outlook.
1. Start EMS 2. Update OAB:
1. Start EMS
2. Update OAB:
Update-OfflineAddressbook “offline address book” or Get-OfflineAddressbook | Update-OfflineAddressbook Restart BackGround File Transfer Service on the MBX server
Update-OfflineAddressbook “offline address book”
or Get-OfflineAddressbook | Update-OfflineAddressbook Restart BackGround File Transfer Service on the MBX server
3. Initiate OAB replication from mail box server to CAS server. Execute for each CAS server:
Update-FileDistributionService "CASServerName" or Get-ClientAccessServer | Update-FileDistributionService Alternatively you can also restart Microsoft Exchange File Distribution on each CAS server: net stop MSExchangeFDS & net start MSExchangeFDS or restart-service MSExchangeFDS
Update-FileDistributionService "CASServerName"
or Get-ClientAccessServer | Update-FileDistributionService
Alternatively you can also restart Microsoft Exchange File Distribution on each CAS server: net stop MSExchangeFDS & net start MSExchangeFDS or restart-service MSExchangeFDS
4.Now start Outlook and download OAB:
Goto Send/Receive menu, select Send/Receive Groups and press Download Address Book: To initiate a Full Download by doing "uncheck" @ Last Send/receive:
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