Exch 2010 – Manual Offline Address Book Update

PowerShell

Update-OfflineAddressbook “Default Offline Address List”
Update-FileDistributionService

Management Console

Go to the Exchange management console, under “Organization Configuration” select the “Mailbox” container, go to the “Offline Address Book” container and right-click update on the address book you want to generate.

Verify

You can monitor the status of the generation of the OAB by looking at the time stamps of the files in <Exchange install directory>V14ExchangeOAB<GUID of the Address Book>

Once the address book has been generated, you can speed up its distribution by forcing an update of the distribution file service, using  Update-FileDistributionService.

Andrew Morpeth
Andrew Morpethhttps://ucgeek.co/author/amorpeth/
Andrew is a Modern Workplace Consultant specialising in Microsoft technologies based in Auckland, New Zealand; Andrew is a Director and Professional Services Manager at Lucidity Cloud Services and a Microsoft MVP.

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Andrew Morpeth
Andrew Morpethhttps://ucgeek.co/author/amorpeth/
Andrew is a Modern Workplace Consultant specialising in Microsoft technologies based in Auckland, New Zealand; Andrew is a Director and Professional Services Manager at Lucidity Cloud Services and a Microsoft MVP.

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