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Exchange also supports earlier ANSI versions of the offline address book for Outlook clients with earlier versions. Exchange computers also have a filtering mechanism in place that makes sure that only those certificates that are used by Outlook for public key infrastructure PKI will be present in the offline address book. This mechanism significantly reduces the size of the offline address book from servers that are running Exchange compared to the offline address book from servers that are running earlier versions of Exchange.

Q5: How frequently is the offline address book updated on the Outlook client? A5: If left constantly running, Outlook in cached mode automatically updates the offline address book on the client every 24 hours.

The hour time period is measured from the time that the offline address book was last downloaded successfully. For example, if you complete an offline address book download at today, Outlook will start the offline address book download the next day at approximately Therefore, different people will receive updates at different, random times. Note The default setting on Exchange Server and earlier versions is to generate an offline address book differential file every morning at For a change that is made in Active Directory to reach the client computer, the following events must occur:.

The change must be picked up by the Exchange computer that generates the offline address book files. This can take several hours. At worst, it can take 24 hours. This variable will be referred to as \”x.

The Outlook clients must download the offline address book updates every 24 hours. This update can take several hours. This variable will be referred to as \”y. It would be rare for a client to ever experience a hour delay or more unless there were some Active Directory or public folder replication issues.

Note For Exchange Server and later versions, the default schedule is to process the OAB every 8 hours over a period of 1 hour. OAB generation can run at different times based on resource availability. Q6: How can you tell when Outlook will try its next offline address book download? A6: Unless you notice the last time that Outlook downloaded the offline address book, you may not know when Outlook is scheduled to try the next offline address book download.

No indicator in the Outlook user interface advises you of the offline address book download schedule. Therefore, to manually force a download of the latest offline address book assuming one is available on the Exchange computer , use one of the following methods:. Manually download the address book by following the steps appropriate for your versions of Outlook.

Click OK. If Outlook determines that either sequence ID is high as compared to the sequence ID that was downloaded, Outlook triggers the download. Q7: How frequently are the offline address book files generated on the Exchange computer? A7: By default, Exchange Server and earlier versions generate the offline address book files every morning at For Exchange Server and later versions, the default schedule is to process the OAB every 8 hours over a period of 1 hour.

Q8: How is the offline address book updated on the server and on the client? A8: Each day, the Exchange computer generates a full offline address book and a differential file from the previous day. The Exchange computer stores the differential file and the full file for the current day and stores only the differential files for the previous days.

The following table outlines the process that Exchange and Outlook use to determine which offline address book files to download to the client.

Download differential sequence 3 and sequence 4 or offline address book sequence 4 if differential sequences 3 and 4 are greater than one-eighth the size of a full offline address book sequence 4.

Q9: What are typical offline address book sizes? The following factors can affect the size of the offline address book:. The usage of certificates in a company. The more PKI certificates, the larger the offline address book.

They are the single largest contributor to the offline address book size. The information that a company adds to Active Directory for each user and each distribution group. For example, some organizations populate the address properties on each user; others do not.

Q Can I update the offline address book files on the Exchange computer more frequently? A We do not recommend that you update more frequently as this may affect client and server performance. Generating the offline address book files on the Exchange computer on a more frequent basis may cause performance problems on the server.

You can see the performance impact in the following aspects:. The server has to generate the offline address book more frequently. It might take hours to complete, depending on the size of Active Directory. For each update, Outlook must make a copy of the offline address book in the local computer and apply the incremental changes that are fetched from the server.

If the offline address book on the local computer is MB, Outlook would have to create a copy of that much data with each update. Outlook has a \”throttling\” mechanism that slows down the offline address book update when user activity is detected. Depending on the size of the offline address book, the update can take anywhere from one hour to eight hours if there is continuous user activity.

If you want to increase the frequency of your updates, make sure your offline address book is reasonably small. A good size is in the range of 1 MB to 25 MB, uncompressed. To customize the generation of these files on the server, follow these steps. Exchange Server and Exchange Sever Right-click the offline address list that you specified for your mailbox store, and then click Properties.

In the result pane, click the Offline Address Book tab, and then select the offline address book that you want to configure. If you have increased the generation frequency of the offline address book files on your Exchange computer, you can also increase the frequency of the client offline address book downloads.

To do this:. Click your Exchange account, and then click to select the Include the selected account in this group check box. Under Select the options you want for the selected account group, make sure that the only check box that is selected is Download offline address book , and then click OK. Q Can I programmatically download an offline address book through the Outlook object model?

A No. Offline address book downloads are not exposed through the Outlook object model. Q I added a new user to Active Directory, but the user does not show up in Outlook.

A The offline address book is not up to date. Two events must occur before the changes show up in Outlook:. The server must generate the offline address book and include the changes in the differential files.

If you are sure that the first event has occurred, you can perform a manual download of the offline address book. To do this, follow these steps:. If you make frequent changes to the offline address book, you may want to modify the way that Outlook computers on your network access the Address Book. You can disable the downloading of the offline address book and force the Outlook computers to use the online Global Address List when they use Cached Exchange Mode.

For more information about how to do this, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: How to prevent users from downloading the Offline Address Book without disabling Cached Exchange Mode As per this article, if offline address book. To use this setting, you must set the registry value, remove any. Q What is the effect of offline address book downloads on the network?

Will offline address book downloads flood the network? A When a cached mode profile is started for the first time, Outlook downloads the full offline address book from the server. This can affect the network, especially if multiple clients are starting up at the same time. Other cases when Outlook clients require full offline address book downloads are described in question Differential downloads are not expected to cause a huge network impact if all the clients update the differential files on a daily basis.

Outlook has the following safeguards that help protect the network from excessive offline address book downloads:. In the default configuration, Outlook will only try one full offline address book download in a hour period. An attempt is counted when Outlook receives a response from the server and can at least start the offline address book download. In the default configuration, Outlook does not limit the number of attempts for differential updates.

If a differential update fails, Outlook will retry the update after waiting one hour. Also, Outlook will not perform any full or incremental offline address book downloads if the client is running in header-only mode.

To manually switch to header-only mode, point to Exchange Cached Mode on the File menu, and then click Download Headers. Note The header-only mode configuration will only work with Exchange Q Under what conditions will Outlook perform a full offline address book download?

A Outlook in cached mode will perform full offline address book download when the following conditions are true:. There is no offline address book on the client computer. This condition may occur if Outlook has not performed an initial complete synchronization. The total size of the differential files is greater than one-eighth the size of the full offline address book.

In this case, Outlook downloads the full offline address book for better performance. This condition may occur if there are lots of Active Directory objects that have a change to an attribute that is in the offline address book. For example, phone numbers are updated with a new area code, departments are added to all users in Active Directory, and new address types are added.

To modify the one-eighth rule, follow these steps. Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs.

For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:. This setting example 4 permits Outlook to download differential offline address book files that are up to one-fourth the size of the full offline address book. The parent distinguished name table changes. When this behavior occurs, all Outlook clients will also try to perform a full download.

A parent distinguished name is the part of a distinguished name also known as DN in an earlier Exchange format, not including the final relative distinguished name also known as RDN.

The parent distinguished name table is the set of all parent distinguished names that are found in Active Directory. They come from the legacyExchangeDN attribute and from the proxyAddresses attribute, and they start with the following prefix:.

This means that x addresses for users who were migrated from another organization will not be included. There is a differential file missing on the server. Outlook cannot update to the current version without it. This behavior may occur if one of the following conditions is true:. You did not start Outlook to log on to your Exchange mailbox for more than 30 days. The server policy permits only 30 days of differential files. The server was reset, or it crashed before it could post the differential files but after it was able to post the full offline address book files on the public folder.

The version on the server and the version on the client do not match. There is a more recent version of the offline address book present on the server.

For example, Version 3a Unicode offline address book is now available, and you previously downloaded a Version 2 offline address book. Applying changes to the offline address book failed. For example, differential files are corrupted on the server. Corruption may occur if the server goes down during differential file generation. A change to the legacyDN table occurred. One or more offline address book files were not present on the client computer. For example, a user accidentally deletes one of the.

Note Outlook will not perform a full download if there is a disk-space problem on the client computer. This restriction helps safeguard the network against excessive downloads. Q Is there any compression of the data during an offline address book download? A To save bandwidth, the offline address book is compressed to less than one-third of its full size during the download.

You can see the full offline address book files by using Outlook Web Access with a URL that is similar to the following:. If there are user certificates in the offline address book, this will add approximately 1 KB per certificate. Q Outlook shows the \”Updating Address Book\” status for a long time. A Outlook has a throttling feature that slows the address book update when you are working in Outlook. Outlook is helping you complete other activities and does not allow the address book update to interfere.

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